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The Walrus True Crime

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Arts & Culture

What Canada’s Largest Art Heist Reveals about the Art World’s Shady Side

September 1, 2022September 8, 2022 - by Simon Lewsen

The stolen masterpieces have never turned up—and nobody’s really looking for them

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December 2021

To Catch a Turtle Thief: Blowing the Lid Off an International Smuggling Operation

November 12, 2021January 2, 2022 - by Clare Fieseler

When a padded envelope at the Calgary airport started to move, officials jumped into action

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May 2021

The Rise and Fall of a Double Agent

April 20, 2021January 11, 2022 - by Justin Ling

Cameron Ortis was an RCMP officer privy to the inner workings of Canada’s national security—and in a prime position to exploit them

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The Walrus Talks at Home: Living Better

March 15, 2021February 4, 2022 - by The Walrus Staff

It matters more than ever. Science, culture, politics, health, and how we live now

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When Healers Do Harm: Women Serial Killers in the Health Care Industry

February 10, 2021June 8, 2021 - by Patricia Pearson

Dozens of undetected serial killers may have prowled hospitals and care homes over the past fifty years. Why are they so rarely caught?

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June 2020

Murder in Old Barns

May 27, 2020June 27, 2020 - by Lindsay Jones

Why a Nova Scotia community is still searching for the killer of a beloved farmer thirty years later

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Health / July/August 2018

Yoga’s Culture of Sexual Abuse: Nine Women Tell Their Stories

April 25, 2018February 5, 2020 - by Matthew Remski

Disturbing accounts of misconduct against the founder of one of North America’s most popular forms of yoga

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Technology

The Fake News About Cambridge Analytica

April 3, 2018February 5, 2020 - by Justin Ling

The analytics firm likely didn’t swing any elections. But that doesn’t mean our personal information is safe

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January/February 2018

How Canada’s Health Care System Helped Create a Killer

December 18, 2017February 5, 2020 - by Martin Patriquin

Johnathan Townsend’s family knew he was a danger. Nobody listened

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Justice

The Deadly Racism of Thunder Bay

December 11, 2017August 7, 2021 - by Robert Jago

A series of stalled police investigations reveals a city that’s indifferent to Indigenous lives

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