The Cosmos Brought Back My Ex. Did It Also Give Me Cancer? | The Walrus
The Walrusby Ellen Vanstone1d ago
I’m sitting in my car in an empty, unlit parking lot outside a decrepit warehouse between the railroad tracks and the Red River. It’s peaceful.
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The Walrusby Tajja Isen2d ago
Nonfiction Is Struggling. Publishers Are Making It Worse The industry faults readers for declining sales, but its own decisions are to blame BY TAJJA ISEN ART BY JUSTIN POULSEN Published 6:30...
Trump’s Real Genius Is Selling Himself as a Dealmaker | The Walrus
The Walrusby Peter Jones3d ago
Donald Trump’s bargaining skills have never been troubled by self-doubt. He knows how to apply pressure, spot weakness, and extract concessions that lesser dealmakers would leave on the table—or so...
Europe Isn’t a Quick Fix for Canada’s Trade Crisis | The Walrus
The Walrusby Cameron McNeill3d ago
On the 30th of July 1903, in the heady days of a national economic boom, Sir Wilfrid Laurier rose before Parliament and made his case for a new national railway.
Quebec Wants Artificial Intelligence. Just Not on America’s Terms | The Walrus
The Walrusby Toula Drimonis3d ago
Quebec’s unique history and fierce protection of French have long pushed it to do things on its own terms.
Breaking Up with Canada Won’t Make Alberta Independent | The Walrus
The Walrusby Max Cameron4d ago
Should United States president Donald Trump succeed in colonizing Canada, the process would be achieved by means of dividing Canadians against one another—starting with the referendum in Alberta...
Canada Has a New Apple. Its Story Is Bananas | The Walrus
The Walrusby Andrew Seale4d ago
Canada Has a New Apple. Its Story Is Bananas The Sunpunch features tropical notes and twenty-five years of research and testing Published 6:30, OCTOBER 7, 2026 Sunpunch apples grow on a farm in...
One Year On, Gaza’s Ceasefire Deal Remains Stalled | The Walrus
The Walrusby Samia Madwar4d ago
On October 9, 2025, Hamas and Israel agreed, through mediated talks, to a multi-stage plan outlined by the United States–led Board of Peace to end the fighting and allow humanitarian aid into Gaza...
Quebec Just Became Carney’s Latest Headache | The Walrus
The Walrusby Alex Cool-Fergus5d ago
The Parti Québécois won Quebec’s election. If you’ve been following provincial politics, this shouldn’t come as a surprise. However, one would be forgiven for being distracted. It’s been a year.
Patricia Lockwood Is Figuring It Out as She Goes | The Walrus
The Walrusby Ariella Garmaise5d ago
I have spent a not insignificant amount of time drafting a lede for my conversation with Patricia Lockwood, the writer whom The New Yorker described as having the “impish verve and provocative...
The PQ Wins Election, Setting Up a New Fight over Quebec Separation | The Walrus
The Walrusby Philippe J. Fournier6d ago
I n 2018, after nearly half a century of alternating Liberal and Parti Québécois governments, François Legault’s Coalition Avenir Québec completely blew up Quebec’s established political order.
Is It Treason to Ask America to Help Break Up Canada? | The Walrus
The Walrusby Stewart Prest6d ago
In my view, one of the best things about Canada is how the country found a way to settle fundamental differences—including debates over the future of the country—through democratic means.
Pierre Poilievre’s Alberta Problem | The Walrus
The Walrusby Claire Porter Robbins6d ago
As separatist rallies in Alberta dominated headlines in recent months, one would expect that members of Parliament whose jobs are potentially on the line with the province’s upcoming referendum...
Carney Wants to Privatize Airports. It’s a Terrible Idea | The Walrus
The Walrusby Isaac Peltz6d ago
Around 2,000 people gathered in Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square on September 14, preparing to march to the Art Gallery of Ontario, where Prime Minister Mark Carney’s much hyped Canada Investment...
New in New York, I Walked Everywhere—Even Fifty Blocks Away | The Walrus
The Walrusby Zalika Reid-Benta8d ago
The year was 2012 and I had just moved to New York City to pursue a master of fine arts in creative writing. For the first six months of my new life in Manhattan, I did not take the subway.
Jack Austin’s $25,000 Gift Opens The Walrus’s Seventh Regional Bureau, in British Columbia | The Walrus
The Walrusby The Walrus Staff9d ago
The Walrus Foundation is announcing a $25,000 gift from the Honourable Jack Austin, PC, CM, OBC, a former federal cabinet minister and senator from British Columbia, that will allow us to expand to...
Quebec Sovereigntists Are Back. This Time They’re All Young | The Walrus
The Walrusby Caitlin Walsh Miller9d ago
The first thing I notice on arriving at Club Pays, a pro-sovereignty cafe and bar that opened earlier this year in Montreal, is a neon sign: “Bienvenue dans le Mouvement!” Welcome to the Movement!
An American Company Could Soon Be Handling Your Financial Data | The Walrus
The Walrusby Renée Sylvestre-Williams9d ago
When the Royal Bank of Canada and the Bank of Montreal announced this summer that they were selling their jointly owned digital-payments-processing company for approximately $2 billion, it was big...
Why Is Joan Barfoot’s First Novel Catching Fire Fifty Years Later? | The Walrus
The Walrusby Emily Donaldson9d ago
The afterlife of a book can follow unpredictable paths. It might vanish from publishers’ lists to be kept on life support by a small but stubborn republic of readers.
Canada Is Building Its Own Military Satellite Network. The US Still Holds the Keys | The Walrus
The Walrusby Wes O’Donnell10d ago
Canada just signed a $2.3 billion contract for a military satellite network of its own. The deal could grow to $2.7 billion, and it’ll cover the Canadian Armed Forces with secure Arctic...