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I Flew Across the Country to Look at the Most Controversial Work of Art in Canada

Why did the Art Gallery of Ontario change its mind on acquiring Nan Goldin’s Stendhal Syndrome?

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Ariella Garmaise

Manitoba Moves Against Retailers Charging Different Prices for the Same Goods

The bill would outlaw using personal data to determine what customers pay—a first in Canada

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Carmine Starnino

Ontario Schools Are Getting More Violent. Don’t Blame the Kids

Ford’s Conservatives have spent the last eight years stripping the education system of resources

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Kunal Chaudhary

Weekly Quiz: Falls, Forced Disappearances, and the False Face of Albertan Identity

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

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Ketsia Beboua

What Happens When Chatbots Get a Body?

We might not get The Terminator, but autonomous machines will disrupt life as we know it

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Ibrahim j. gedeon

The Sad State of 24 Sussex Says a Lot about Canada’s Cheapness

Ottawa’s reluctance to fix the prime minister’s crumbling residence betrays a country afraid to invest in itself

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David Moscrop

Media Barons Are Cutting Back, but The Walrus Can’t Afford To

Jeff Bezos is robbing the Washington Post of political bite. Our goal is to leave a mark

20.03.2026 10

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Carmine Starnino

Frankenstein Taught Me the Classics Are Alive, They’re Really Alive!

The books are seen as difficult and unrelatable. But there’s a reason they endure

20.03.2026 10

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Maggie yang

Canada Is Ramping Up Deportations, with 400 a Week

A focus on criminality has echoes of the early immigration crackdown under Trump

20.03.2026 10

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George Abraham

I Love the Em Dash—Too Bad If AI Does Too

I won’t abandon the controversial punctuation mark just to prove I’m human

19.03.2026 10

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Mihika Agarwal

What I Learned from Breaking My Pelvis for the Second Time

After a freak fall, I’m rethinking the balance between independence and safety

19.03.2026 10

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Sandra martin

How Alberta’s Separatist Movement Could Shake North America

The resentments, politics, and risks behind their push to leave Canada

19.03.2026 10

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Christopher hernandez-roy

How to Say No—And Feel Good about It

We’re uber-connected and uber-tired. Turning things down has become an urgent skill

18.03.2026 10

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Courtney Shea

Alberta’s Separatists Are Chasing a Total Cowboy Fantasy

The province they describe—rural, homogeneous, under siege—bears little resemblance to reality

18.03.2026 20

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Timothy Caulfield

How Will the Iran War End? Even Trump May Not Really Know

As the conflict drags on, it looks increasingly like the president is making it up as he goes

17.03.2026 6

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Peter Jones

أين يذهب المختفون قسريًا؟

مسارات التقصي كشكل من التعذيب الممنهج The post أين يذهب المختفون قسريًا؟ first appeared on The Walrus.

17.03.2026 10

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Mostafa Al-A’Sar

Where Do the Disappeared Go?

In Egypt, the search for vanished political activists and dissidents can be its own form of torture

17.03.2026 20

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Mostafa Al-A’Sar

Carney’s First Year: Clear Eyed Abroad, Tone Deaf at Home

He speaks fluently about the global order. Canadians are missing that same clarity on rent, wages, and the cost of living

16.03.2026 20

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Colin Horgan

In Quebec City, Military Culture Collides with Far-Right Extremism

White-supremacist groups are getting armed. They’re also becoming more normalized

16.03.2026 20

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Nora Loreto

Weekly Quiz: Transboundary Beef, Coastal Climate Creep, and Separatist Sentiment

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

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Ketsia Beboua

I Wrote a Popular Book about Going Sober. Then I Relapsed

Addiction cost me thousands in medical bills and hurt my relationship with my son

14.03.2026 10

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Jowita Bydlowska

Iranians, Home and Abroad, Want Change. But Are Divided on the War

Is regime change worth the violence?

13.03.2026 9

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Farnia fekri

Churchill’s Famous Polar Bears Left to Eat Trash

The animals gave the town a global reputation. Now it’s struggling to keep them away from its garbage

13.03.2026 10

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Gloria Dickie

Carneymania Sweeps the Country. Yes, Even Quebec and Alberta

Polls show the prime minister’s popularity stretches far beyond the Liberal base

12.03.2026 6

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Philippe J. Fournier

There’s Absolutely No Justification for Trump’s War on Iran

No logic, no evidence, no argument. Just words, from his head

12.03.2026 9

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Shannon Gormley

I Saw the Best and Worst of Humanity in Tumbler Ridge

Canada has entered a new era of mass shootings. The hope lies in how we respond

12.03.2026 10

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Sara harowitz

Mega Barns Along the US Border Cause a Big Stink in Manitoba

Two North Dakota dairies will house nearly the same number of cows as the entire province. That’s a lot of manure

12.03.2026 9

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J.r. patterson

Cocaine Is Atlantic Canada’s Silent Killer

Amid a global boom, the drug has become cheaper—and deadlier

11.03.2026 10

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Trevor Corkum

Canada Backed the Iran War. Now It’s Struggling to Explain Why

A marathon debate in Parliament exposes Ottawa’s incoherence on the conflict

10.03.2026 8

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Wesley Wark

A Coastal Village Embraced Natural Gas. Now It’s Trying to Outrace the Consequences

Kitimat is on track to house one of the world’s largest export facilities. But ocean waters are rising

10.03.2026 20

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Monica Kidd

How Canada Is Being Pulled into America’s War on “Narco-Terrorists”

Military exchanges and intelligence links mean Ottawa may be closer to the lethal strikes than it admits

09.03.2026 7

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Christy somos

Is Danielle Smith the Most Powerful Politician in Canada?

Or just the most dangerous?

09.03.2026 20

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Amarah Hasham-Steele

Weekly Quiz: Calculated Complicity, Colonial Coats, and Continental Deterrence

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

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Ketsia Beboua

I Was a Prisoner in Iran. I’ve Seen the US Meddle in the Region for Decades

Washington’s real aim in the Middle East is control, not liberation

07.03.2026 20

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Behrooz ghamari

Canada Is Already at War with the US—We Just Don’t Know It Yet

Conflicts don’t always start with an invasion

06.03.2026 20

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Patrick Lennox

As Trust in the US Fades, Canada May Become a Nuclear Player

Europe is debating a deterrent force less reliant on Washington. Should Ottawa take part?

05.03.2026 8

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Peter Jones

Is It Offensive to Wear the Hudson’s Bay Point Coat?

The vintage garment commands big prices. But it’s tied to an ugly history

05.03.2026 20

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Rollie Pemberton

Quebec’s Governing Party Running Out of Time to Save Itself

In the leadership race, Christine Fréchette pulls ahead of Bernard Drainville as the CAQ faces political collapse

04.03.2026 10

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Philippe J. Fournier

The Most Accurately Predicted Genocide in History

There was satellite imagery, survivor testimony, and mass graves. Still, the world looked away from Sudan

04.03.2026 20

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Michelle Shephard

Journalists Parachuted into Tumbler Ridge. What Counts as Decent Reporting in a Crisis?

The town’s only newspaper editor on accuracy, humanity, and exploitation

03.03.2026 10

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Carine Abouseif

Eight Experts on What You’re Not Being Told about the War in Iran

The questions that aren’t making it into the battlefield dispatches

03.03.2026 10

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Various Contributors

Cramped Condos and the Rise of Unfriendly Neighbours

We are building denser housing but no longer remember how to look out for each other

03.03.2026 20

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Jessica barrett

Why Regime Change by Force Is Unlikely to Work in Iran

Canada’s former ambassador to Tehran on what Trump’s strikes change on the ground—and what they don’t

02.03.2026 20

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Dennis Horak

After the Freedom Convoy, What Is the Emergencies Act Actually For?

Courts ruled Ottawa overreached in handling the capital’s siege, leaving the law in limbo

02.03.2026 20

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Wesley Wark

I Tried New Tech That Claimed It Could Hack My Dreams

What it felt like to surrender my subconscious to the new frontier of sleep science

01.03.2026 20

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Karen van kampen

I Tried New Tech That Claimed It Could Hack My Dreams

What it felt like to surrender my subconscious to the new frontier of sleep science

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Karen van kampen

Weekly Quiz: Northern Mines, Synthetic Slopes, and Heroic Afterlives

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

28.02.2026 20

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Ketsia Beboua

When My Marriage of 16 Years Ended, I Had to Find My Way Back to Myself

Saying I instead of we felt like learning a new language

27.02.2026 20

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Mo duffy

In First Major Test of His Davos Logic, Carney Visits India to Rebuild Trust

Two middle powers seek common ground after a prolonged diplomatic rupture

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Sushant Singh

The Walrus Talks Power and Belonging

Exploring agency, purpose, and belonging in action

26.02.2026 20

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