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What Is Sex? Ask a Boomer, a Millennial, and a Gen Z and They’ll All Say Something Different

What Is Sex? Ask a Boomer, a Millennial, and a Gen Z and They’ll All Say Something Different

Published 6:30, December 3, 2025 “I AM SO DONE with penetrative sex.” This statement from T surprised me. There was T herself: a fit, sexually...

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Cathrin Bradbury

The NDP Can’t Call Itself a National Party If Its Leaders Can’t Speak French

The NDP Can’t Call Itself a National Party If Its Leaders Can’t Speak French

E arlier this year, I renewed my membership in the New Democratic Party of Canada in anticipation of the party’s coming leadership race and its...

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Luke Savage

Many Indigenous Mothers Must Travel Hundreds of Kilometres to Give Birth. Meet the Women Changing That

Many Indigenous Mothers Must Travel Hundreds of Kilometres to Give Birth. Meet the Women Changing That

Published 6:29, DECEMBER 2, 2025 I MAGINE YOU ARE a pregnant Canadian, close to your due date, when the government tells you to fly to Denmark to...

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Michelle Cyca

Mr. Carney, about That Pipeline Deal—We Need to Talk

Mr. Carney, about That Pipeline Deal—We Need to Talk

D ear Mark Carney, You first came to my attention in September of 2024 when an investor in the film I co-directed, Sugarcane, told me, “This guy is...

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Julian Brave Noisecat

Many Indigenous Mothers Must Travel Hundreds of Kilometres to Give Birth. Meet the Midwives Changing That

Many Indigenous Mothers Must Travel Hundreds of Kilometres to Give Birth. Meet the Midwives Changing That

Published 6:29, DECEMBER 2, 2025 I MAGINE YOU ARE a pregnant Canadian, close to your due date, when the government tells you to fly to Denmark to...

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Michelle Cyca

Yeehaw, Alberta Is Getting a Pipeline (at BC’s Cost)

Yeehaw, Alberta Is Getting a Pipeline (at BC’s Cost)

L ast week, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government and Alberta premier Danielle Smith did something many thought politically impossible: they...

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Carmine Starnino

Nate Erskine-Smith Has Built a Political Career on Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud

Nate Erskine-Smith Has Built a Political Career on Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud

D isrespected. That’s the word that made national headlines this past May, after Nate Erskine-Smith was dropped as a Liberal minister. While the...

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Amarah Hasham-Steele

Political Defectors Face Mistrust, Hostility, Sexism, and Worse. Why Do They Do It?

Political Defectors Face Mistrust, Hostility, Sexism, and Worse. Why Do They Do It?

I n the 2015 Alberta election, Sandra Jansen was one of just nine Progressive Conservative candidates elected and the only woman in that caucus....

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Alex Marland

Meet the Librarian Resurrecting the Lost Women of Skateboarding

Meet the Librarian Resurrecting the Lost Women of Skateboarding

I t was not the post about an X Games vert champion or someone catapulting themselves down multiple sets of stairs on a skateboard that received...

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Natalie Porter

Weekly Quiz: Harassment, Hardlines, and the Politics of a Playlist

Weekly Quiz: Harassment, Hardlines, and the Politics of a Playlist

How closely have you been reading our online stories this week? Take The Walrus Weekly Quiz to find out—released every Saturday The post Weekly...

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Ketsia Beboua

Amid Buy Canadian, Should We “Listen Canadian” Too?

Amid Buy Canadian, Should We “Listen Canadian” Too?

E arlier this year, I was invited to travel to Los Angeles to talk about Canadian music as an export commodity. I was to speak alongside folks...

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Erin Macleod

Anyone Could Be Anyone

Anyone Could Be Anyone

Published 6:30, November 28, 2025 P EOPLE THINK private investigators are dirty. They’re oily guys with coffee breath, tattletales. On TV, private...

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Thea Lim

The F-35 Isn’t Just a Fighter Jet. It’s a Pledge of Allegiance

The F-35 Isn’t Just a Fighter Jet. It’s a Pledge of Allegiance

T he stakes are high in what will be one of the most expensive and consequential defence purchases in Canadian history, as the Canadian government...

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Wesley Wark