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Books

I Changed My Mind about Reading Problematic Male Authors

October 17, 2023October 18, 2023 - by Amanda Perry

I came of age loving the works of Milan Kundera and Derek Walcott. Now, as a professor of literature, I have to ask tough questions

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December 2023 / Justice

How a Sexual Assault Case in St. John’s Exposed a Police Force’s Predatory Culture

October 16, 2023October 17, 2023 - by Lindsay Jones

Winning a sexual assault conviction against a cop is hard. That didn’t stop Jane Doe

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Society

The Next Target in the War on Affirmative Action? Law Firms

October 13, 2023January 8, 2024 - by Tajja Isen

The move to weed out equitable hiring is part of a much longer history of exclusion in both the US and Canada

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Introducing the Second Recipient of the CIBC Digital Fellowship for Emerging Black Journalists at The Walrus

October 13, 2023October 12, 2023 - by The Walrus Staff

The Walrus is pleased to announce Makda Mulatu as the CIBC 2023/24 Fellow

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Hadfield, We Have a Problem

October 12, 2023October 13, 2023 - by Sam Wiebe

The acclaimed astronaut’s latest novel fails to blast off

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Society

“Parents’ Rights” Rhetoric Is Rooted in Radical Conspiracy Theories

October 11, 2023January 8, 2024 - by Michelle Cyca

Why are federal and provincial conservative leaders echoing the talking points of QAnon?

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Environment / November 2023 / October 2017

Canada’s National Parks Are Colonial Crime Scenes

October 10, 2023November 1, 2023 - by Robert Jago

Many see wilderness as a right of citizenship. But the concept of Canada as untouched nature is unrecognizable to Indigenous people

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Books

Are AI Companies Ripping Off Writers? Canadian Authors Speak Out

October 9, 2023October 26, 2023 - by Various Contributors

Yann Martel, Heather O’Neill, Douglas Coupland, and others weigh in on their books being used to train AI systems

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Society

The Mushroom Boom

October 6, 2023October 11, 2023 - by Anne Thériault

From beer to vegan leather, fungi are increasingly being used in new ways. But there’s still a lot we don’t know about the mysterious organisms

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Technology

Margaret Atwood Reviews a “Margaret Atwood” Story by AI

October 5, 2023October 11, 2023 - by Margaret Atwood

Plus a poem that a chatbot took ten seconds to write

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It’s moments like this that reaffirm the mission of The Walrus. We take pride in continuing to provide independent journalism you can trust. We pledge to keep delivering the full story: the research, context, and analysis needed to make sense of such a hurried and momentous news cycle.

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