A woman and three children, all wearing backpacks and hiking gear, look out over a mountain range.A woman and three children, all wearing backpacks and hiking gear, look out over a mountain range.

Y WE TRAVEL

In this new series, accomplished writers from diverse backgrounds explore the deeper purpose of our journeys—not just where or how, but why. Presented by Toronto Pearson Airport, the Canadian Airports Council, and The Walrus Lab.


  • Redefining Connectivity: Building Networks of the Future - In today’s digital world, networks are about more than just connections between devices. They connect people with their communities, businesses with their customers and first responders with those needing help. by Alexander Huls

Events

The December 2024 cover of The Walrus magazine featuring a an illustration of a doctor drawn as a spider with other doctors ensnared in his spider web. Headline reads: 'WEB OF LIES: The star researcher who faked his data, conned his colleagues, and nearly got away with it'

Inside the December issue of The Walrus

Atlantic Canada grapples with hate crimes, a housing crisis, and shattered dreams
➔ The fall of a rockstar ecologist
➔ How we came to live in the golden age of garbage clothing
Inside one of Canada’s most baffling art heists
When your lover is a bot

Podcasts

Dan Werb is an author, epidemiologist, and policy analyst whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Salon, and elsewhere. In this episode, Dan discusses how his musical career does, and doesn’t, connect with his scientific one, about the challenge of misinformation that COVID-19 exposed and accelerated, and about why the joy of winning a major non-fiction book award lasted about a day and a half.

Accessing robust and reliable healthcare is increasingly becoming a challenge. Where should you turn when the system falls short—and can you trust online health advice to fill the gap? Family physician and former Canadian Medical Association president Kathleen Ross explores the widespread impacts of Canada’s physician shortage, while emergency physician and health literacy advocate Shazma Mithani offers guidance on navigating the increasingly popular online wellness spaces.

487 trails, part of the Trans Canada Trail, can tell an important story about Canada, its history and its people. Dianne Whelan is a filmmaker, photographer, author, and public speaker. This special episode of The Conversation Piece features content from her presentation at Manulife presents The Walrus Talks Nature, supported by Trans Canada Trail.




Arts
  • A man nearly kisses a woman whose skin is made of circuits. When Your Lover Is a Bot - Artificial intimacy is taking over the dating world—and leaving us lonelier by Mihika Agarwal
Environment

Poetry

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Fiction
  • An illustration of a flames surrounding black vines and dark grapes. At the centre is a window with the shade pulled down. Smokehouse - It was as if I’d swallowed the forest fire itself, all of it burning and alive inside of me by Nour Abi-Nakhoul

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