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Politics

The Decade in Politics

December 15, 2019February 21, 2020 - by The Walrus Staff

From predicting civil war in the US to evaluating the health of our own democracy, these are the politics conversations that helped define Canada

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Democracy / Politics

Reconciliation: The False Promise of Trudeau’s Sunny Ways

September 19, 2019October 22, 2019 - by Martin Lukacs

Under the Liberals, statements of moral feeling have been elevated to a governing strategy

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Politics

The Great Myth of Alberta Conservatism

February 4, 2019June 2, 2020 - by Jen Gerson

With an election approaching in spring 2019, it’s worth asking if we’re all wrong about the province

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Sex Ed: Beyond the Classroom

Sex Ed: Beyond the Classroom

December 5, 2018December 13, 2019 - by The Walrus Staff

For this special web series, The Walrus spoke with teens, parents, and educators nationwide, on what we get wrong—and right—about gender, intimacy, desire, and consent

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October 2018 / Politics

Meet the Facebook Group Trying to Reshape Politics

October 5, 2018March 31, 2020 - by Jen Gerson

Ontario Proud has become enormously influential on social media. Critics say it’s partisan, even racist

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Media

Does Canadian Media Have a Right-wing Bias?

July 14, 2017August 8, 2020 - by Nora Loreto

While the far right appears on daily news, the far left has yet to break through the mainstream

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Politics

Sunny Ways v. the Dark Side

December 29, 2015January 2, 2020 - by Michael Den Tandt

Is Justin Trudeau Luke Skywalker or Darth Vader—or, Lord help us, the insufferable parvenu Kylo Ren?

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Feature / July/August 2013

The Contender

July 25, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Richard Gwyn

The appeal of Justin Trudeau’s emotional intelligence

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Feature / March 2011

The New Solitudes

March 12, 2011August 20, 2020 - by Erna Paris

Canada was once defined by the schism between English and French. Today, our divide is increasingly ideological. Can it be bridged?

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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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