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March/April 2021 / Photography

Scenes from Canada’s Housing Crisis

March 3, 2021March 3, 2021 - by Amber Bracken

As cities across the country failed their unhoused populations, one Indigenous-led camp in Edmonton offered support

Unist'ot'en Chief Doris Rosso speaks to supporters of the Unist'ot'en camp and Wet'suwet'en people as they gather around a camp fire off a logging road near Houston, B.C.

Politics

Did the Protests Work? The Wet’suwet’en Resistance One Year Later

March 2, 2021March 2, 2021 - by Tyler McCreary

In the months following the pipeline protests and blockades, hereditary chiefs helped change how BC works with First Nations

Justice / March/April 2021

Standoff at 1492 Land Back Lane

February 8, 2021February 11, 2021 - by Luke Ottenhof

How twenty-five acres of Ontario farmland have become a new front in the battle for Indigenous self-governance

World

Exploration Is a Flawed Notion

September 18, 2020September 18, 2020 - by Wade Davis

Explorers need to shed their self-obsession. Discovery isn’t about setting an endurance record

The Walrus Talks

Impact: Roberta Jamieson

March 9, 2020March 9, 2020 - by Roberta Jamieson

Working with our people requires work

An image of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, in a large gold frame and against a periwinkle background. Stuck onto the document is a post-it with an asterisk and the words "some conditions apply" written in red.

Justice

The Need to Protect Free Speech on First Nations Reserves

February 25, 2020March 27, 2020 - by Robert Jago

It’s unclear if the Charter applies to First Nations governments. This leaves band members extremely vulnerable

Tenille Campbell, the poet, smiles at the camera while wrapped in a shawl against a forest-green background.

October 2019 / Poetry

Thick Indigenous Women

February 21, 2020February 21, 2020 - by Tenille Campbell

we are curves spilling stories / against your lips

A hand hovers over a Samsung phone. The phone background is an image of Mackie Basil.

March 2020 / Society

The Search for Mackie Basil

February 12, 2020March 27, 2020 - by Annie Hylton

Seven years ago, a young Indigenous woman from Tache, BC, went to a party and never came back. Her family won’t stop looking for her

Ghanimat Azhdari, a young woman in a blue dress, poses and smiles against a backdrop of nations' flags.

Current Affairs / World

What We Lost When Ghanimat Azhdari Was Killed in the Iran Plane Crash

January 13, 2020January 16, 2020 - by Jimmy Thomson

The University of Guelph PhD student was one of 175 who died on Flight 752. Friends remember a conservationist who fought to put Indigenous needs first

Feature

The Decade in Long Reads

January 1, 2020February 21, 2020 - by The Walrus Staff

From a debonair grifter to Canada’s peacekeeping mission in Mali, these are the conversations that helped define Canada