The Walrus

09/25/2025

Away from her home in Arviat and navigating her new high school in Yellowknife, Susan Aglukark often felt inadequate and out of place. Tracing those doubts back to systemic failures, not personal ones, took time—and the courage to share her story. https://thewalrus.ca/susan-aglukark-memoir/

09/25/2025

Two of the first five major national projects recently advanced by the Mark Carney government for fast tracking involve copper mines—but why? Writer Wesley Wark weighs the risks and rewards of the move: https://thewalrus.ca/carney-bets-big-on-copper/

09/25/2025

It was in second grade that writer Carla Ciccone first understood the stakes of becoming overwhelmed by her environment. As a child with undiagnosed ADHD, she tried her best to blend in among her peers, but not having the space to express herself came at a cost. https://thewalrus.ca/adhd-girls/

09/25/2025

“My attitude when I got to Yellowknife was: I just want to get through this.”

Juno Award–winning Inuk singer-songwriter Susan Aglukark reflects on the rigidity and isolation that shaped her experience as a high schooler at Akaitcho Hall: https://thewalrus.ca/susan-aglukark-memoir/

09/24/2025

A $20 bottle of BC wine now costs Albertans $26.11. On a case, that’s an extra $73.32. Christina Frangou, The Walrus regional correspondent for Western Canada, breaks down how Alberta’s new wine tax is hitting winemakers—and wine drinkers—where it hurts: https://thewalrus.ca/the-wine-wars-are-back-and-albertas-playing-dirty/

09/24/2025

AI has radically transformed universities. For Robert Gibbs, there is an urgent question to be answered in determining what comes next for higher education: What can our students learn to guide them in this muddled storm so they can help society? https://thewalrus.ca/universities-in-the-age-of-ai/

09/24/2025

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09/24/2025

When Ksenia Koldin finally reunited with her younger brother Serhii after being separated from him while the pair were stranded in Russia, “he was like a stranger, a shell.” For families like theirs, coming home to Ukraine is only the start of healing. https://thewalrus.ca/ukrainian-children/

09/24/2025

“If the university exists only to warehouse knowledge and to transmit tradition, then it is doomed.”

Philosophy and religion professor Robert Gibbs reflects on what universities must do to stay relevant in an era defined by AI: https://thewalrus.ca/universities-in-the-age-of-ai/

09/23/2025

Canada has now joined a group of 147 nations that have already recognized a Palestinian state. It’s a bold and controversial shift in policy, but for writers Raja G. Khouri and Jeffrey J. Wilkinson, it’s also a shared call to justice. https://thewalrus.ca/canada-recognizes-palestine/

09/23/2025

According to Bring Kids Back UA, an initiative by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, 20,000 Ukrainian children have been abducted and held in Russia since Russian president Vladimir Putin’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. As of this September, only 1,605 have made it home. https://thewalrus.ca/ukrainian-children/

09/23/2025

“Looking back, even before October 7, 2023, I was surprised to see that I had written far more about Jewish identity than I had thought,” writes Marsha Lederman. “It was something I believed I had rarely referenced in my work. I was wrong about that.” https://thewalrus.ca/the-difficulties-of-writing-about-october-7/