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What Brought Us Joy in 2025

A s I watched team members add to the running ledger of their collective joys for 2025, it occurred to me that we might be looking in the wrong...

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The Walrus Staff

2025: The Stories That Surprised Us

2025: The Stories That Surprised Us

I n a time of echo chambers and hyper-personalization, where algorithms narrow the focus of what we see online, The Walrus focuses on journalism...

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The Walrus Staff

Ukraine’s War Is Producing a New Politics of Memory

Ukraine’s War Is Producing a New Politics of Memory

O ne afternoon in October, almost four years into Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, I was sitting in the sleek, modern offices of PEN...

tuesday 10

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Ira Wells

How a Trove of Smuggled Records Could Help Syrians Get Justice for War Crimes

How a Trove of Smuggled Records Could Help Syrians Get Justice for War Crimes

O n December 8, 2024, as the regime of Bashar al-Assad collapsed, Mukhtar was at his home in Idlib Governorate, in northwestern Syria. (For safety...

tuesday 10

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Adnan R. Khan

What the Hell Is Kevin O’Leary Doing in Marty Supreme?

What the Hell Is Kevin O’Leary Doing in Marty Supreme?

“T hey said, ‘We’re looking for a real asshole, and you’re it,’” Kevin O’ Leary told TMZ about when Josh Safdie and his co-writer Ronald Bronstein...

tuesday 1

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Adam Nayman

Better Than the Spa: Why I Dive Into Iqaluit’s Icy Waters

Better Than the Spa: Why I Dive Into Iqaluit’s Icy Waters

W e didn’t realize until afterwards, but the thin layer of ice on top of the water was razor sharp. After we came out of the water, slapping and...

tuesday 1

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Laakkuluk Williamson

The Automotive Engineer Who Took Apart a Bogus KGB Intelligence Dossier

The Automotive Engineer Who Took Apart a Bogus KGB Intelligence Dossier

G iuseppe Bianchin, as best as I can tell, is, in fact, an actual person. This isn’t a trivial matter: Bianchin is the unlikely author of what may...

22.12.2025 1

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Taylor C. Noakes

Albertans Are Driving Their Government Crazy by Following New Laws Too Much

Albertans Are Driving Their Government Crazy by Following New Laws Too Much

S omething funny is happening in Alberta. People in the province are complying with the law, and it’s driving the government bonkers. The roots of...

22.12.2025 10

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Christina Frangou

No Matter Which Way You Look at It, Carney Has Abandoned Climate

No Matter Which Way You Look at It, Carney Has Abandoned Climate

F or the first few months of Mark Carney’s prime ministerial tenure, Canada’s climate community of advocacy groups, think tanks, journalists, and...

22.12.2025 10

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Arno Kopecky

How Quebec Farmers Took On Vermont’s Maple Syrup King—and Won

How Quebec Farmers Took On Vermont’s Maple Syrup King—and Won

T he first person to get rich from the sweet products of maple trees was an American. George Clinton Cary was born in 1864 on a farm in Fort...

20.12.2025 6

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Peter Kuitenbrouwer

Weekly Quiz: Academic Overload, Student Journalists, and Stress Signals

Weekly Quiz: Academic Overload, Student Journalists, and Stress Signals

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...

20.12.2025 1

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Ketsia Beboua