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If Rivers Had Rights

I deas move in space and time. They swim like fish. They drift like pollen. They migrate like birds. Sometimes their movement carries them right...

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Robert Macfarlane

Weekly Quiz: AI Hiring Bots, Abortion Access, and Aging IT Infrastructure

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

yesterday 10

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Kayla Thompson

Alberta Is Talking about Separating—AGAIN

B efore the province even had a name, Alberta’s politicians demanded limits on the federal government’s power. “The new province in the West...

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Christina Frangou

My Mother Was My Critic

I tottered on the top landing, my toes curled on the stairs of my childhood home. A heavy maroon Webster’s Dictionary balanced precariously on my...

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Minelle Mahtani

I’m Not Ready to Lose Canada

A s a Quebecer, I have always had an ambivalent, if not uneasy, relationship to Canada. The province’s deep sense of being distinct, of speaking a...

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Carmine Starnino

Ottawa’s Tech Strategy Is So Broken, Even Consultants Are Begging Us to Fix It

I n 2011, the Government of Canada contracted American tech giant IBM to build a new system to manage its payments to civil servants. Beset by...

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Justin Ling

Is Jordan Peterson Just Making It Up as He Goes?

J ordan Peterson’s marketability has always been a bit surprising given his weirdness. He speaks exclusively in a glottal cadence that sounds like...

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Luke Savage

She Wanted to End Her Pregnancy. Her Abusive Partner Took Her to Court

T hey met at a RadioShack in Montreal in November 1988. She was barely twenty, a waitress new to the city. He was five years older, a big man, six...

04.06.2025 1

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Karin Wells

The US Badly Needs Rare Minerals and Fresh Water. Guess Who Has Them?

R ain fell for the first time on the highest point of the Greenland ice sheet in August 2021, seen by scientists as a foreboding precedent for sea...

03.06.2025 10

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Christopher Pollon