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The Walrus Announces New Canadian Podcast Network

Podcast creators interested in joining the network can submit their show for consideration until November 30

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Chatbots Are Lousy Writers. So Are a Lot of Writers

Humans have been counterfeiting “good” prose for years. AI just sped up the process

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Jason Guriel

The Ontario Town Where (Almost) No One Wants to Be Mayor

Fauquier-Strickland nearly went broke. Other small communities could follow

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Kunal Chaudhary

Doug Ford Is Spending a Lot of Money Ripping Out Bike Lanes

Toronto’s road wars: Millions of dollars, tonnes of emissions, and several arrests

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Marina Black

Miscarriage

I begged you to reverse course, / swore I could fix the breach

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Amanda Merritt

A Mega Farm’s Financial Fall Is Sending Shockwaves Across the Prairies

Monette Farms was seen as the future of agriculture. Now it owes $1 billion

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J.r. Patterson

The Separatists Lost. So Why Does Canada Feel like the Loser?

Albertans rejected the movement in a landslide, but not before it made a mockery of our institutions

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Carmine Starnino

Carney’s Latest Weapon Against Poilievre? Stephen Harper

His embrace of the Conservative icon is making life awkward for the party’s current leader

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Linda Thornback

“Space Between Certainties”

The winning story in the Youth Short Story category of the 2026 Amazon Canada First Novel Award

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Nandini Parihar

Live: Follow the Alberta Referendum with The Walrus

Updates from the province and expert analysis on the historic vote

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What If Alberta Votes to Stay—and the Separatists Don’t Care?

How a referendum defeat could lay the groundwork for American intervention

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Brynn Tannehill

I Had a Dream Life Covering Pop Culture. My Gambling Landed Me in a Vegas Jail

I owed casinos thousands of dollars and was arrested on arrival in Sin City

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Rick Campanelli

Canines, Conductors, and Homeowners

Letters to the editor: November 2026

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Readers

Waking from Anaesthesia

The kind of hand that shakes / the body awake with a cymbal / crash

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Jim Johnstone

Is a Bad Jane Austen Adaptation a Victimless Crime?

Don’t get your bonnet strings in a knot if you’re disappointed by Sense and Sensibility. It was bound to happen

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Amarah Hasham-Steele

Why Do Alberta Separatists’ Grievances Feel Small?

I don’t see a distinct people seeking political expression for a national identity. I see an angry faction

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Carmine Starnino

After Karim Nader Upended the Science of Memory, He Started to Lose His Own

How the esteemed neuroscientist is grappling with a life-changing diagnosis

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Samia Madwar

First Algoma, Now Stelco: Layoffs Tear Through Canada’s Steel Towns

How Hamilton and Sault Ste. Marie are feeling the hit of Trump’s tariffs

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Shilpashree Jagannathan

The Walrus Talks at Home: Creativity and Belonging

Exploring creativity, connection, and community

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Scores of Men Are Travelling to Istanbul for Hair Transplants. Is It Worth It?

A clinic. Surgery. A stay at a nice hotel. Thousands of dollars. Why men are going the distance

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Andrew Seale

Danielle Smith Is Making Alberta Great for Trump

Her embrace of MAGA has given separatists powerful American allies—allies who see the province as a prize

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Jeremy Appel

Readers Think They Can Spot AI Writing. They’re Wrong

Every polished sentence isn’t evidence for the prosecution

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Colin Horgan

Chrystia Freeland: Carney Was Right to End Trade Talks with Trump

The former NAFTA negotiator argues that giving ground only makes the president demand more

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Wendy Kaur

YouTube Influencers Are Cashing In on Alberta Separatism

The payouts run into the tens of thousands. Some creators don’t even live in the province

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Emma Paling

The Cosmos Brought Back My Ex. Did It Also Give Me Cancer?

What my first love taught me about a terminal diagnosis

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Ellen Vanstone

Calling All Readers: Do You Struggle to Stay Focused?

The internet is full of tips on how to pay attention. Our advice columnist wants to hear yours

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The Walrus Staff

Nonfiction Is Struggling. Publishers Are Making It Worse

The industry faults readers for declining sales, but its own decisions are to blame

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Tajja Isen

Trump’s Real Genius Is Selling Himself as a Dealmaker

What he won in Greenland falls well short of his boasts—and offers Canada a lesson in holding firm

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Peter Jones

Quebec Wants Artificial Intelligence. Just Not on America’s Terms

Local developers are building medical tools that follow the province’s rules and speak its language

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Toula Drimonis

Europe Isn’t a Quick Fix for Canada’s Trade Crisis

A partnership still needs twenty-seven countries to agree. And then there’s the ex to deal with

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Cameron McNeill

Alberta’s Separatists Are Auditioning to Be the Fifty-First State

They promise freedom from Ottawa while courting a US president who wants the province on his map

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Max Cameron

The Canadian Connection: 150 Years of the Telephone

Season 5/Episode 3 – English Transcript

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The Walrus Lab

Allô, le Canada? 150 ans de téléphone

Season 5/Episode 3 – French Transcript

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One Year On, Gaza’s Ceasefire Deal Remains Stalled

Despite Israel and Hamas signing an agreement, Palestinians are no closer to rebuilding their lives

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Samia Madwar

Canada Has a New Apple. Its Story Is Bananas

The Sunpunch features tropical notes and twenty-five years of research and testing

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Andrew Seale

Patricia Lockwood Is Figuring It Out as She Goes

The viral poet and Booker judge talks her new book, finding inspiration in group chats, and not knowing how to cross the street

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Ariella Garmaise

Quebec Just Became Carney’s Latest Headache

The PQ’s return opens another front for a prime minister already managing a fractured country

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Alex Cool-Fergus

The PQ Wins Election, Setting Up a New Fight over Quebec Separation

St-Pierre Plamondon takes office determined to put independence back to a vote

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Philippe J. Fournier

Is It Treason to Ask America to Help Break Up Canada?

The growing relationship between Alberta separatists and US political actors demands a response

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Stewart Prest

Carney Wants to Privatize Airports. It’s a Terrible Idea

Be ready to pay more for everything

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Isaac Peltz

Pierre Poilievre’s Alberta Problem

The separatist movement is putting the Conservatives Party’s loyalties—and its rhetoric—to the test

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Claire Porter Robbins

New in New York, I Walked Everywhere—Even Fifty Blocks Away

For six months, I didn’t take the subway

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Zalika Reid-Benta

Jack Austin’s $25,000 Gift Opens The Walrus’s Seventh Regional Bureau, in British Columbia

The former senator becomes the first individual Canadian to fund the launch of one of our bureaus

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Quebec Sovereigntists Are Back. This Time They’re All Young

The new separatists were barely born the last time the province came close to leaving Canada

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Caitlin Walsh Miller

Why Is Joan Barfoot’s First Novel Catching Fire Fifty Years Later?

The cult classic about a woman who deserts her family is more relevant than ever

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Emily Donaldson

An American Company Could Soon Be Handling Your Financial Data

Moneris manages one in three Canadian payments. US private equity is buying it

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Renée Sylvestre-Williams

Canada Is Building Its Own Military Satellite Network. The US Still Holds the Keys

Space sovereignty won’t be easy when so much of the infrastructure remains American

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Wes O’donnell

Alberta’s Referendum Fails Every Democratic Test We Have

Danielle Smith’s ten-question ballot doesn’t just measure discontent with Canada. It helps manufacture it

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Patrick Lennox

The Weather Network Is Canada’s Most Trusted Media. What’s It Doing Right?

Its success complicates everything we think we know about objectivity

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Tom Jokinen

No One Told Me I Was at High Risk for Breast Cancer

It took years to learn just how vulnerable I was

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Kelly S. Thompson