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Weekly Quiz: Tax Breaks, Beauty Treatments, and Tech Sovereignty

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

“Green Finance” Promises to Save the Planet. It’s Doing the Opposite

Every firestorm, hurricane, and flood gives investors an opportunity to make more money

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Maude Barlow

My Year of Listening Obsessively to Keith Jarrett after My Father-in-Law Died

I felt an urge to sit with the music as deeply as he had

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Simon gadke

When I Heard a Montreal Fortune Cookie Factory Was Closing, I Needed to Get Inside

More than sixty years in business and one photographer determined to witness the last batch

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Ezra soiferman

Diljit Dosanjh on Jimmy Fallon: A History Lesson in Canada’s Mistreatment of Immigrants

The global Punjabi icon talked about a 1914 incident when a ship carrying Sikhs was denied entry at Vancouver

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Shilpashree jagannathan

More Young Women Are Self-Injecting Botox than You Think

The latest DIY beauty hack isn’t for the squeamish

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Wendy Kaur

Canada Courted Ubisoft with Tax Breaks for Years. Then Came the Layoffs

The video game titan has received as much as $2 billion in incentives. Maybe we should change where we put our money

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Isaac peltz

How the Montreal Canadiens Helped Viggo Mortensen Find Himself

The actor opens up about the emotional role the Habs played in one of the hardest transitions of his life

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Brendan Kelly

Ottawa Says It’s Not Involved in the Iran War. It Might Be Lying

The trail of evidence linking Canadian forces to the conflict keeps growing

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Christy somos

I Spent Months with an AI Companion. It Was Worse than Being Alone

I hated the mindless reassurance and generic empathy

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Thea Lim

America Doesn’t Need to Invade Canada. It Has Our Data

From cloud servers to AI patents, digital dependence is becoming a new form of power

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Julie Sobowale

The Hottest Relationship in The Devil Wears Prada Is Obviously Miranda and Andy

The film is best viewed as the story of queer infatuation between an assistant and her boss

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Colby Payne

I Went to Cuba When Trump Turned the Lights Out

No fuel, no power, no water—and a country that has learned to wait

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Roger lemoyne

How Did an Alberta Separatist Group Get Its Hands on the Voter List?

The data breach, likely the largest in Canadian history, raises urgent questions about election security

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Patrick Lennox

The Country Music Star Taking On the Alberta Government

Corb Lund has been called a “woke bastard” for daring to protest coal mining

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Christina Frangou

Canada Should Call Trump’s Bluff on CUSMA Trade Talks

With the US economy weakening, Ottawa has more leverage than it thinks

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Peter Jones

Weekly Quiz: Canada’s Potential Water War, Alberta’s Separatist Movement, and Montreal’s Mile End

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Ketsia Beboua

You’re Not Imagining It: Cookie-Cutter Offices Are Making You Less Productive

The science behind how spaces affect our lives

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Leidy klotz

The Walrus Leads National Magazine Awards

We earned 25 nominations for our investigative journalism, essays, illustrations, and more

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The Walrus Staff

Last Call at the Patrician Grill: The Beloved Toronto Diner Closes after 70 Years

How the “nothing fancy” institution won hungry hearts

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Marina black

If Killing Journalists Is a War Crime, Why Isn’t Anyone Stopping It?

The past two years have seen a record number of media workers killed

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Samia Madwar

Mutts, Maternity, Stalkers, and Shooters

Letters to the editor: May 2026

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Readers

A Lump in the Throat

I’m ready to let the lines between dreams and reality dissolve

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Minoo jan

Mile End Kicks: The Strange Sensation of Seeing Myself in the Buzzy Montreal Movie

Indie bands, loft parties, walking home with sweet, unavailable boys—yup, I’ve been there too

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Rosie long decter

Quebec Promised Francophone Immigrants a Fast Track to Permanent Residency—Then Changed Its Mind

The sudden move has sparked criticism across an unusually broad coalition. And blindsided many newcomers

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Caitlin Walsh Miller

Just Ban Surveillance Pricing Already

Companies are using our data to gouge us. How much more can consumers take?

29.04.2026 8

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David Moscrop

The AI Race Is Charged by the Fear of Being Left Behind

I would feel better if there was someone smart setting the terms of the transition

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Carmine Starnino

Should Canada Extend MAID to People with Mental Illness?

A psychiatrist weighs in on a question Parliament will need to settle soon

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Kevin andrew heslop

Separating from Canada Would Be an Economic Disaster for Alberta

The movement promises endless prosperity. The numbers tell a bleaker story

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Tyler Dawson

2026 Michener–Deacon Fellowship Awarded to Jordan Michael Smith

His investigation, to be published by The Walrus, will examine the devastating consequences of international custody law

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Trump Is Thirsty for Canada’s Water, but Our Own Gluttony Is the Bigger Threat

Scarcity, pollution, and deregulation are putting the country’s supply under siege

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Christopher Pollon

Americans Trust Canada in Trade Talks More than Their Own Government

New poll suggests most believe Canada negotiates in good faith

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Philippe J. Fournier

Weekly Quiz: War Wagers, Chess Cheaters, and Local Leaders

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Ketsia Beboua

How Residential School Students Became Victims of Nazi Race Science

Torn from loved ones, Indigenous children suffered brutal medical injustices

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Elaine dewar

I Was Lonely and Let an App Pick My New Friends. Here’s How It Went

Algorithms now promise to pair up busy Gen Z professionals—for a fee

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Amarah Hasham-Steele

Grocery Prices Will Keep Rising No Matter What Politicians Promise

Cash rebates help but leave us powerless against entrenched chains

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Anil Wasif

Illness, Intimacy, and Artificial Intelligence

Letters to the editor: March/April 2026

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Readers

Why So Many Mayors Are Quitting

From housing to wildfires, small-city issues are getting too big to handle

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Sandrine Rastello

The Walrus Talks AccessAbility

Accessibility in action: ideas, innovations, and the work ahead

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Prediction Markets Turn Everything into a Wager—Even War

A booming industry is inviting users to profit from human suffering

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Wesley Wark

The Impossible Case of Lilly and Jack: How Did Two Kids Just Vanish in Nova Scotia?

The search in the woods, the scrutiny of a rural community, and the suspicion that remains

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Jessica Leeder

The Stress of Elite Chess Is Wearing Down the Game’s Champions

Anxiety, loneliness, and paranoia—how a grandmaster comes undone

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Jordan Himelfarb

Carney’s Liberals Are Governing like Conservatives—Just More Politely

Across immigration, climate, and foreign policy, the party is moving to the right

20.04.2026 10

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Lloyd Axworthy

The Day a Soviet Nuclear Satellite Crashed into the Canadian North

Decades later, a mystery still hangs over what the fiery descent of Cosmos 954 left behind

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Whit Fraser

$28,600 a Year: What the Average Older Canadian Woman Lives On

Many choose flexibility or family over pay, only to arrive at retirement with a meagre pension

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Moira welsh

Weekly Quiz: Foreign Interference, Arctic Deterrence, and Weariness Around War

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

The Roller-Coaster Price of Oil Is Bad for Almost Everyone

These volatile numbers make everything more expensive

17.04.2026 10

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Arno Kopecky

Billions of Birds Have Vanished in a Generation

To save them, we need to look and listen

17.04.2026 20

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Jackie morris

Can Trump Actually Quit NATO? We May Soon Find Out

Leaders are already preparing a fallback plan

16.04.2026 20

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Wes O’donnell

The Dark Side of Artemis II? Pearl-Clutching Right-Wing Pundits

Some folks were awfully sensitive to the idea that space travel could be colonialist

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Harley Rustad