homepage

A painting of piles of medical paperwork in a dark room on fire.

Health

Family Doctors’ Burnout Is about More than Their Workload

February 8, 2024February 8, 2024 - by Samia Madwar

Many physicians believe there needs to be a reset in how they treat patients—and their own well-being

A photo of people skiing near a double chair lift in Massachusetts, U.S. in the '60s.

Environment

Skiing Is Becoming an Endangered Pastime

February 7, 2024February 7, 2024 - by Michelle Cyca

Across Canada, snow cover has been declining. Will winter, and winter sports, soon be extinct?

Books / March/April 2024

The Shunned Literary Genius of Samuel Selvon

February 6, 2024February 6, 2024 - by Amanda Perry

When a giant of Caribbean literature moved to Calgary, Canadian critics ignored him. He probably didn’t care

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

A photo illustration of two versions of a bust of Greek historian Herodotus. On the left, the bust is in its original state fading into a dark background. On the right, the bust has gone through the process of yassification as if using a beauty filter, surrounded by heart-shaped like buttons against a blue and pink gradient background.

Technology

Social Media Is Warping History

February 1, 2024February 1, 2024 - by Colin Horgan

#History is huge on TikTok, where counterintuitive takes flatter users into thinking they know the “real” story

A photo of displaced Palestinians taking shelter inside a school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Refugees on Jan. 16, 2024.

World

Nowhere Safe: Twenty-Five Days in Wartime Gaza

January 31, 2024January 31, 2024 - by Louis Baudoin-Laarman

A worker with Doctors without Borders describes the chaos, anger, and anguish following Israel’s bombing and invasion of Gaza

A photo of Palestinian journalist Wael Al-Dahdouh at the funeral of his son, Hamza Wael Dahdouh, who was also a journalist and was killed during a reported Israeli air strike in Gaza on January 2024. He is wearing a press vest while he places a helmet labelled “Press” onto his son’s gravestone.

Media

Attacks on Press Freedoms Have Chilling Effects Far beyond Gaza

January 30, 2024May 27, 2024 - by Asmaa Malik

The dangers of covering the crisis aren’t limited to front-line reporting. They’re playing out behind the scenes in North American newsrooms too

Photo of Connie Walker, a woman with medium-length brown hair and glasses, sitting in an office in a green chair with one leg crossed over the other. Beside her is a pair of headphones on a stand.

March/April 2024 / Media

How Connie Walker Got Us Listening

January 29, 2024April 10, 2024 - by Michelle Cyca

The Pulitzer Prize–winning podcaster is changing journalism as we know it

A photo illustration of a pixellated broken globe.

Media

Around the World in Eighty Lies

January 26, 2024January 26, 2024 - by Michelle Cyca

How a writer fabricated a series of stories for Atlas Obscura

Sections

Explore

Support

Follow

Family Doctors’ Burnout Is about More than Their Workload

Skiing Is Becoming an Endangered Pastime

The Shunned Literary Genius of Samuel Selvon

Attacks on Press Freedoms Have Chilling Effects Far beyond Gaza

Around the World in Eighty Lies

Fund the journalism that helps you make informed decisions. Fund The Walrus.

Fund the journalism that helps you make informed decisions. Fund The Walrus.

Fund the journalism that helps you make informed decisions. Fund The Walrus.

Fund the journalism that helps you make informed decisions. Fund The Walrus.