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Cover Story / September 2019

Céline Dion is Everywhere

August 28, 2019March 27, 2020 - by Suzannah Showler

At fifty-one, Dion is wrapping up her Vegas residency with a world tour, an album, and two movies in the works. Why has it taken forty years for the world’s most talented singer to finally become cool?

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Cover Story / June 2019 / Society

The Rise of Junk Science

May 27, 2019March 27, 2020 - by Alex Gillis

Fake publications are corrupting the world of research—and influencing real news

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Illustration by Bruce Mau
Cover Story / March 2019

Is the World Getting Better or Worse?

February 6, 2019November 14, 2019 - by Bruce Mau

We are now faced with a choice: return to old patterns or take a leap into a radical and uncertain future

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bundles of lumber on a lake
Cover Story / Environment / November 2018

People vs the Planet

October 15, 2018April 22, 2020 - by Edward Burtynsky

In the Anthropocene, the argument that deforestation’s economic benefits overrule its environmental impact no longer holds weight

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student looking through lines in paper like they were blinds
Cover Story / Education / October 2018

Who Gets to Be Gifted?

September 19, 2018March 31, 2020 - by Katrina Onstad

Kids in the gifted program are disproportionately white and affluent. How streaming became another form of segregation

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Illustration of a lightbulb against a black background. Instead of a filament, the bulb has a syringe inside.
Cover Story / Opioids: A Public Health Crisis / September 2018

My Life and Death on Opioids

August 23, 2018December 13, 2019 - by Chris Willie

In November 2017, The Walrus started working with Chris Willie on a memoir about his fentanyl addiction. While writing the article, Willie died from an overdose. This version of his story is published with his family’s approval

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Illustration by Hanna Barczyk
Cover Story / May 2018

How to Build a Life Without Kids

May 2, 2018March 27, 2020 - by Lauren McKeon

Canadians are increasingly living alone and without kids. For women, that means finding meaning outside the maternal script

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Illustration of Man Running Towards a Large Technological Eye
April 2018 / Cover Story / Justice

Busted by Big Data

March 29, 2018March 27, 2020 - by John Lorinc

Algorithms could make cities safer—but they can’t protect us from policing’s worst instincts

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Illustration by Anna Parini
Cover Story / March 2018

What Consent Means in the Age of #MeToo

January 18, 2018March 27, 2020 - by Sarah Barmak

The notion that sex is fraught with ambiguity has made some kinds of assault difficult to describe and confront

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self-driving truck prototype parked on the side of the road
Cover Story / December 2017

Rise of the Robots

November 14, 2017November 11, 2019 - by Sharon J. Riley

Automated trucks will transform an industry and put millions out of work

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Double issue: declaring your data at the border, the Group of Seven 100 years later, an Indigenous-led camp for unhoused people in Edmonton, death in the age of Facebook, and quitting America for good.

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