• Welcome to University. Good Luck Finding a Place to Live - Students are being forced to choose between brutal commutes and luxury condos they can’t afford by Katrya Bolger

1. I Lost My Son to Addiction. No, Privilege Didn’t Protect Him by Scott Oake
2. How Trump’s Tariffs Put Canada on a Collision Course by Vass Bednar
3. Nazi Persecution Scattered My Family. A Lost Archive Brought Us Together by Timothy Taylor
4. Poilievre’s Dangerous Dance with MAGA-Style Politics by Justin Ling
5. The New Patron Saints of Lesbian Fiction by Rachel Gerry

• “Guaranteed Jobs” That Don’t Exist: The Dark World of Immigration Consultants - Canada has an insatiable demand for cheap labour. Workers are being lured here with schemes and lies by Adnan R. Khan

• How Trump’s Tariffs Put Canada on a Collision Course - The trick is balancing retaliation with economic survival by Vass Bednar

• Nazi Persecution Scattered My Family. A Lost Archive Brought Us Together - How 10,000 pages of documents sent me on a journey through Germany’s dark past by Timothy Taylor

• I Lost My Son to Addiction. No, Privilege Didn’t Protect Him - He had a loving family, financial support, and the best treatment. He fell victim to an overdose anyway by Scott Oake

• The New Patron Saints of Lesbian Fiction - Why the best queer writers are throwing plot out of the window by Rachel Gerry

• Breaking the Rules of Gay Fiction, One Riotous Page at a Time - Brontez Purnell’s work burns with a frantic blend of lyricism and lewdness, desire and disgust by Connor Garel

• Inclusion and Adaptability in Times of Change - How four leaders from George Brown College create inclusive environments and remove barriers to post-secondary education by Madeleine Somerville

• Part 6: Why Do We Travel?
  Because Nature is Everywhere - From Mexico to Miami to Montreal, wild flora and fauna break through concrete and reach for the sun, writes Caitlin Stall-Paquet. For humanity, it’s a reminder of how life persists without us by Caitlin Stall-Paquet

• Advancing Canada’s digital future - Interac is leading Canada into a world of possibilities by Glynis Ratcliffe

• [WATCH] The Walrus Talks at Home: Polarization - Seeking solutions for the increasing political, social, and cultural divide

• [WATCH] The Walrus Talks Menopause - Demystifying menopause, from peri to post, and the impacts on women’s health and well-being

• [WATCH] The Walrus Talks at Home: Indigenous Perspectives on Belonging - How can Indigenous knowledge, traditions, and practices help us understand the essential human experience of belonging?

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Shashi Bhat is the author of the novels The Most Precious Substance on Earth and The Family Took Shape. Her most recent book is the story collection Death by a Thousand Cuts, published by McClelland & Stewart in 2024. In this episode, Shashi and Nathan talk about how her writing style has grown both darker and more overtly humorous, the pressures she has felt about the kinds of stories that she, as a woman from a South Asian family, was supposed to write, and about her enduring love for short stories.

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The first episode of this new podcast series follows Canadian novelist Timothy Taylor as he uncovers his family’s Holocaust legacy. After inheriting a ten-thousand-page archive of diaries, letters, and photographs, he pieces together the story of the Kuppenheim family, whose lives were shattered under Nazi rule. Travelling to Germany to meet historians and experts, Taylor traces his grandfather Felix’s remarkable escape—from the impact of the Nuremberg Laws to a harrowing journey through the Soviet Union, Japan, and finally to Ecuador.

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Building and maintaining sexual and body confidence as we age is essential for living healthier, happier lives. The intensity of the changes brought on by menopausal symptoms can make this especially challenging, but reconnecting to pleasure offers one path to empowerment. Luna Matatas is a sex and pleasure educator. This special episode of The Conversation Piece features content from her presentation at The Walrus Talks Menopause, supported by Shoppers Foundation for Women’s Health.

• How Trump’s Tariffs Put Canada on a Collision Course - The trick is balancing retaliation with economic survival by Vass Bednar

• 2024: The Year in Arts & Culture - Thoughtful essays and fascinating deep dives into everything from art forgeries to Joni Mitchell’s best work by Various Contributors

• Polar Vortex and Firenado: Hard-Core Jargon Has Taken Over Forecasts - As climate gets weird, so does language by Arno Kopecky