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To the many who responded to this column by saying "Doug Ford is not a conservative", the same poll has Ford at +32 net rating among CPC voters from coast to coast: 🟢57% favourable 🔴25% Unfavourable Beware of echo chambers, etc. → thewalrus.ca/doug-ford-is-n…

Lower taxes. Higher income. Substantial investment in health care and education. These are the promises the Alberta government made in a recent advertising campaign designed to encourage workers to move to the province. But the hype hid a harsher truth. thewalrus.ca/alberta-is-str…

My forthcoming book, Fan Mail, features essays about great novelists like William Gibson, great poets like Alicia E. Stallings, great directors like Whit Stillman, and great cartoonists like Thomas Scioli. Please consider preordering from Vehicule Press using the link below…

Though Pierre Poilievre may have come up short at the polls on April 28 and lost his own seat, writer Dr. Mark Bourrie knows we haven’t seen the last of him. “He’s doing as much as he can to make it difficult, if not impossible, to get rid of him.” thewalrus.ca/pierre-poiliev…

The population of the Northwest Territories is roughly 50 percent Indigenous. The anxiety Canadians now feel about annexation is one felt by northerners since the first Hudson’s Bay Company post was established at the Slave River Delta over 220 years ago. thewalrus.ca/what-photograp…

Congratulations to writer Michelle Cyca and editor Harley Rustad, who won third place in the 2025 Indigenous Media Awards Best Longform/Magazine Story category for the story “How Workplace Diversity Fails Indigenous Employees.” Read the full story here: thewalrus.ca/how-workplace-…

I haven't posted here in ages. But I feel the fireflies in this story may enjoy this space. This was the hardest thing I've ever written, and also the easiest. It's about my dad's lifelong study of bioluminescence, and his final descent into the dark. thewalrus.ca/a-son-a-scient…

Canada is rearming and I will try to decouple from the USA armaments industry... which is probably for the best. What do y'all think of Mark Carney's recent speech? He seems more hawkish than Trudeau. thewalrus.ca/why-mark-carne…

Much of the writing about marriage and divorce “struggles to escape our narrow ideas of the institution,” writes Tajja Isen. More than just revealing the inner workings of a writer’s life, these stories also comment on who we are and what we value. thewalrus.ca/are-women-allo…

Donald Trump’s ongoing talk of annexing Canada. The atrocities happening in Gaza. The doomscrolling. These days, photojournalist Pat Kane isn’t short on anxiety. When feelings of overwhelm threaten to take over, he turns to the land for strength. thewalrus.ca/what-photograp…

Congratulations to the #NMA25 Silver-winning Thea Lim for The Walrus in the category of Columns and Essays for "The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age"

Rebecca Huntley spent thirty years in and out of therapy trying to come to terms with childhood abuse. Conventional therapies had helped her on an intellectual level, but there was something missing. In her case? Illegal MDMA therapy. thewalrus.ca/when-therapy-d…

For Wesley Wark, there’s one international diplomacy issue that could threaten the achievement of good diplomatic outcomes for Canada: deficiencies in our hard power and defence capability spending. thewalrus.ca/why-mark-carne…

For Arno Kopecky, the mystery of how fireflies transform combustion into light mirrors the mystery of life. “What’s life?” he questions. “The closer you look, the stranger it gets. Each revelation is a portal to a fresh mystery.” thewalrus.ca/a-son-a-scient…

Such a deserving winner. Loved your speech.

From a high-profile divorce to surviving multiple no-confidence votes, Justin Trudeau has taken several hits. But the final blow came from within: his own caucus called for his resignation. Wendy Kaur explores what’s next for the former prime minister: thewalrus.ca/justin-trudeau…

I love well-written negative reviews, which there aren't enough of in this age of boosterism. In my new book, Fan Mail, I attack overhyped writers, mediocre books, conceptual poets, prose poets, and the head of FSG's debut novel. If you like honest criticism, preorder below...

Ocean Vuong has not written a masterpiece, but his reviewer has: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/… London Review of Books

The book I'm most excited for this year: Richard Holmes's biography of the young Tennyson

In 2011, most climate change coverage featured “emotionally benign” images of politicians. But writer and photographer Bojan Fürst believes that may finally be changing. thewalrus.ca/climate-change…