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Cinema May Be Dying but the Old Auteurs Still Have Plenty to Say

Cronenberg, Scorsese, and other filmmakers of the generation are making some of their most revelatory work The post Cinema May Be Dying but the Old...

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Dylan Adamson

Fresh Lettuce in the Yukon? Believe It

Fresh Lettuce in the Yukon? Believe It

I t’s almost a summer ritual. One—or both—of the highways connecting the Yukon to southern Canada shuts down because of wildfires or floods. If the...

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Rhiannon Russell

Part 10: Why Do We Travel? To Transform Ourselves

Why do we travel? For too long, we took this question for granted. Travel can make our large world small, and we forgot what a gift this is until...

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Let’s Admit It: Trump Is Winning the Trade War with Canada

Let’s Admit It: Trump Is Winning the Trade War with Canada

A few weeks ago, I ran into somebody involved with the Canada–US trade talks. Can’t get more specific than that. When I asked how it was going,...

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Paul Wells

When Immigrants Oppose Immigration

When Immigrants Oppose Immigration

A t just twenty-three, second-generation immigrant Jessie was working in the federal government to save for law school—even though he felt deep “...

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Mihika Agarwal

Weekly Quiz: Potash Gold, Prompts for bioterrorism, Pre-mature caregivers

Weekly Quiz: Potash Gold, Prompts for bioterrorism, Pre-mature caregivers

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...

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Kayla Thompson

Whiteouts, Ice Roads, and Wolverines: What Working at a Diamond Mine in the Far North Is Like

Whiteouts, Ice Roads, and Wolverines: What Working at a Diamond Mine in the Far North Is Like

D escending into Diavik is like landing on a distant moon, the world sealed in a hard sheet of ice and snow stretching in every direction. The...

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Jeremy Thomas Gilmer