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Arts & Culture / March/April 2023

Finding My Grandmother in Portraits of Other Women

March 13, 2023March 15, 2023 - by Angela Lewis

For years, I was drawn to photographing older women without knowing what I was searching for

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September/October 2022 / Society

No Place to Live

September 21, 2022March 10, 2023 - by Julia-Simone Rutgers

One person’s search for a place to call home shows a public housing system stretched to its limits

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Youth Podcast Host Call-Out

July 8, 2022August 17, 2022 - by The Walrus Lab

The Walrus Lab is seeking young hosts for a special upcoming podcast series. We’re excited to announce that we have a special new podcast series in the works, and it’s …

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AFNA Shortlist: Episode 19 of The Deep Dive

May 26, 2022May 30, 2022 - by The Walrus Staff

Five questions for authors Emily Austin, Lisa Bird-Wilson, Pik-Shuen Fung, Brian Thomas Isaac, Conor Kerr, and Aimee Wall

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Society

Fifty Cover Letters, Three Interviews, Zero Offers: Finding a Job Still Isn’t Easy

October 28, 2021April 30, 2022 - by Zeahaa Rehman

A precarious job market and student debt has recent grads feeling hopeless

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Education / November 2021

Inside the Mental Health Crisis Facing College and University Students

October 26, 2021October 27, 2021 - by Simon Lewsen

Campuses are offering more wellness programming than ever before, so why are rates of student mental illness on the rise?

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Fiction / November 2021

Binge on Three Quick Stories by Douglas Coupland

October 13, 2021January 2, 2022 - by Douglas Coupland

New fiction on pandemic isolation, bored border guards, and getting grandkids

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Poetry / September/October 2021

Soil

August 20, 2021 - by Bertrand Bickersteth

A field is / just the fist side / of a fact

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Poetry

After You

July 23, 2021 - by Brian Wickers

After you left / us, I was left / feeling you’d leapt / through a door swept

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Fiction / July/August 2021

Giganto

July 1, 2021January 4, 2022 - by Charlotte Gill

Giganto is known by various names: almasty, migyhur, meh-teh, dzu-teh. Around here, the common term is a bastardization of a word from a Coast Salish language, Sásq’ets, or “wild man”

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