Arctic | The Walrus

An illustration of two ships crossing a checkered finish line. The ship in the lead has Chinese characters on the side. The ship behind it has a small Canadian flag.

January/February 2021 / Politics

China Wants to Invest in the Arctic. Why Doesn’t Canada?

January 4, 2021January 11, 2021 - by Gloria Dickie

While Canada ignores the North’s economic potential, China is poised to make inroads

Politics

The Problem with Polar Bear Propaganda

December 14, 2017December 24, 2019 - by Tim Edwards

Inuit hunters fact-check a viral video on climate change

Photography

Making the Subarctic Bloom

June 2, 2017April 5, 2020 - by Cody Punter

How a Filipino immigrant built the largest communal farm in the NWT

Photography

Hunters of the Northern Ice

October 24, 2016October 23, 2019 - by Wade Davis

There is no better measure of genius than surviving in the Arctic with technology carved from ivory and bone

Feature

Where the Streets Have No Names

December 8, 2015March 3, 2020 - by Harley Rustad

How a remote archipelago in Hudson Bay is using digital cartography to put itself on the map

Education / September 2015

Nunavut U

August 19, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Kyle Carsten Wyatt

Why Canada needs an Arctic university

April 2015 / Feature

Under Pressure

April 23, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Nathan M. Greenfield

In defence of Canada’s submarines

Photograph by Eric McNair-Landry and Sarah McNair-Landry

Photography

Taking Stock

February 12, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Eric Boomer

Baffin Island’s new migration of Arctic char

A photograph of Tanya Tagaq in a red, plaid dress.

Feature / January/February 2015

The Rise of Tanya Tagaq

January 15, 2015December 17, 2019 - by Drew Nelles

Her music is like nothing else in the world

Cities

Iqaluit Pastoral

December 19, 2014June 21, 2020 - by Kyle Carsten Wyatt

Dogsledding north of the tree line