“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
How Trump’s Tariffs Put Canada on a Collision Course - The trick is balancing retaliation with economic survival
- The Tunnel - it almost seems they’ll call me / back onto the field
- 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
- 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
- The New Patron Saints of Lesbian Fiction - Why the best queer writers are throwing plot out of the window
- 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
Do you know a teen who dreams of being a writer?
The 2025 Amazon Canada First Novel Award is now accepting submissions for the Youth Short Story category. The winning story will receive $5,000. The deadline to submit is February 9, 2025.
Inside the March/April issue of The Walrus
➔ The day Assad fled
➔ How a would-be bomber rebuilt his life
➔ A long-buried archive brings a family back together
➔ When your landlord is a billion-dollar corporation
➔ The moral failings of Canada’s immigration system
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.
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.
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
- 2024: The Year in Arts & Culture - Thoughtful essays and fascinating deep dives into everything from art forgeries to Joni Mitchell’s best work
- Polar Vortex and Firenado: Hard-Core Jargon Has Taken Over Forecasts - As climate gets weird, so does language
- Schvitzing at the Sauna like a Sucker - Can Othership and other urban bathhouses really cure loneliness?
- Extermination - Even if you don’t see them or hear them, there are always others—somewhere in your home
