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March/April 2021 / Society

Quitting America

January 18, 2021January 18, 2021 - by M.E. Rogan

I came to Canada to escape a childhood—and a nation—consumed with lies

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Current Affairs

Why Canada Should Finally Free Meng Wanzhou

January 8, 2021January 8, 2021 - by Chris Scott

The Huawei CFO’s detention has always been political. With Trump out, Trudeau shouldn’t wait to release Meng

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Arts & Culture / May 2019 / Poetry

Three Poems

June 28, 2019July 9, 2019 - by Michael Fraser

A series about the lives and experiences of African Canadians who joined the Union army in the American Civil War

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Current Affairs / November 2018

America’s Next Civil War

October 22, 2018June 2, 2020 - by Stephen Marche

The United States shows all the warning signs of impending social and political collapse

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Politics

The Myth of American Democracy

June 19, 2018July 6, 2019 - by Lewis Lapham

The destruction of credible political discourse started long before President Trump

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Feature / October 2017

Fearing Those Who Flee Trump’s America

September 6, 2017April 5, 2020 - by Michael Lista

Canada is using the Safe Third Country Agreement to systematically turn back asylum seekers

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Books

When America Declared War on Us

August 23, 2017April 5, 2020 - by Robert McGill

Canadian fears of a US invasion have a long history in our literature

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Society

Shedding Our False Sense of Virtue

August 3, 2017May 29, 2020 - by Wendell Adjetey

We consider ourselves immune to the type of civil unrest that erupted in the US in the 1960s. But could Indigenous frustration today be reaching the same boiling point?

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Politics

Measuring the Decline of Democracy

January 20, 2017July 4, 2020 - by Lauren Heuser

To know if our political structure is at risk—at home and abroad—we need data, not anecdotes

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Cover of the Mar/Apr issue of The Walrus magazine. Mar/Apr 2021

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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