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Author and The Walrus Board Member Darrel J. McLeod Has Died

September 3, 2024September 4, 2024 - by The Walrus Staff

He is remembered as a man of many talents

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Photo of Amandine Galiussi with her two children.

Yellowknife’s Wildfire Evacuation Was Tailored for the Privileged

August 16, 2024August 16, 2024 - by Pat Kane

A year ago, about 20,000 people fled the city. For many, the evacuation was more traumatizing than the fires

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A black-and-white illustration of two Indigenous with long braids of hair that are intertwined above their heads. A blood red moon is between them.

Health / July/August 2024 / Memoir

Colonization Has Made a Taboo Out of Menstruation

June 26, 2024July 29, 2024 - by Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory

My blood and how it speaks to me have become sources of my courage, my decisiveness, my quelling of self-doubt

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A photograph of the poet, a man with his chin in his hand and looking toward the right of the frame, against a periwinkle-blue background.

June 2024 / Poetry

Recess

June 7, 2024 - by David O'Meara

Beyond hopscotch chalked-out boxes, / gravel started, then a diamond

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A baby with tentacles and multiple hands is surrounded by a halo of unicorns. Worshippers kneel before its pedestal

July/August 2024 / Technology

AI Is a False God

May 29, 2024October 25, 2024 - by Navneet Alang

The real threat with super intelligence is falling prey to the hype

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Illustrations of glasses, matches, a car, fountain pen, amulet, leaves, coins, flowers, fountains and a large house surround a black-and-white photo of a Sri Lankan family snipped by bird-shaped scissors.

Fiction / May 2024

Wo

March 29, 2024March 28, 2024 - by Randy Boyagoda

We ate and drank and drove on and I went off the road, and so we discussed the situation and decided it would be a good idea to pull off the road

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Photo of a teenage girl wearing a spaghetti-strap dress. She is standing outside near a lake with green trees and bushes visible. A single out-of-focus red dhalia hangs down from the edge of the frame, blocking her face from view.

January/February 2024 / Society

Invisible Lives: Meet Canada’s Undocumented Kids

February 2, 2024February 2, 2024 - by Cindy Blažević

Without legal status, these young people must live in the shadows

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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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