Shedding Our False Sense of Virtue
We consider ourselves immune to the type of civil unrest that erupted in the US in the 1960s. But could Indigenous frustration today be reaching the same boiling point?
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Canadians Have Not Seen the End of Populism
Kellie Leitch’s campaign manager has resigned, but it should not make us complacent
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How Trump Conquered the Christian Right
White evangelicals have fallen in a love with a thrice-married adulterer and blasphemer
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Measuring the Decline of Democracy
To know if our political structure is at risk—at home and abroad—we need data, not anecdotes
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The Brexit Fix-it
How an obscure forty-year-old Canadian thriller might help alleviate a global crisis
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Goodbye to All That?
What Britain’s EU exit would mean for Canada
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A Friend in Need
It’s Mulcair and Trudeau, not Harper, who will weaken Canada’s special relationship with the United States
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How This Became the Niqab Election
For the first time in generations, Canada has no great national neurosis. So Stephen Harper created one
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Bohemian Days on Richmond Street
Drawing inspiration for thewalrus.ca from an ink-stained Nostradamus
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The Moores of Scotland
I don’t know why I settled on Aberdeen, aside from the fact that it’s close to my favourite distillery
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