The Walrus Magazine

The Walrus is a magazine from Canada that focuses on a variety of topics. It features in-depth articles about both Canadian and global issues, as well as creative works like fiction and poetry written by Canadian authors.

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The US Badly Needs Rare Minerals and Fresh Water. Guess Who Has Them?

4 days ago | thewalrus.ca | Christopher Pollon

Rain fell for the first time on the highest point of the Greenland ice sheet in August 2021, seen by scientists as a foreboding precedent for sea level rise and the planet. But not everyone was alarmed. The melting of ice caps began exposing virgin ground for mining, including what has been touted as some of the largest deposits of rare earth elements, or REEs, in the world. REEs are a group of seventeen metals with remarkable magnetic, electrochemical, and luminescent properties.
Weekly Quiz: Fixating on Fighter Jets, Compromising Canada Post, and Savouring Spicy Food

1 week ago | thewalrus.ca | Kayla Thompson

Stand Up for Canadian Stories At a time when the US president is trying to define our national narrative, we must strengthen and champion our collective voice. Journalism that is truly reflective of our country has never been more vital. It’s through the support of readers like you that we can both celebrate and sustain Canada’s boldest conversations and secure the future of independent media in this country.
When Canada’s Most Famous Brain Surgeon Almost Killed His Own Sister

1 week ago | thewalrus.ca | Eric Andrew-Gee

O pening the skull had never seemed more difficult to Wilder Penfield than it did on that cold December morning in Montreal. Staring at his sister’s shining white scalp, shaved for surgery on the heavy German-made operating table, he felt weak. It was 1928, and Penfield was one of maybe two dozen neurosurgeons anywhere in the world. The profession was new, thrilling, and shaky—as likely to kill as cure.
My Guilty Pleasure: Getting Destroyed by Spicy Food

1 week ago | thewalrus.ca | Robert Jago

Growing up, I had the diet of a cautious senior. Mayonnaise sandwiches, boiled chicken, and well-done steak. What eventually changed that was a British science fiction show called Red Dwarf, a grungy space comedy about the last man in the universe.
Nathan Fielder Lifts Off into a New Reality in The Rehearsal

1 week ago | thewalrus.ca | Adam Nayman

There are plenty of A-listers with authentic pilot licences: Clint Eastwood, Harrison Ford, John Travolta, Tom Cruise. None of them, however, has ever flown a commercial airliner filled with civilians under the steady, real-time gaze of GoPro cameras mounted around the cockpit. Advantage: Nathan Fielder, the Canadian-born comedian turned conceptual stuntman, whose documentary series The Rehearsal is basically an elaborately subsidized prime-time psy-op.
Weekly Quiz: Guantánamo Bay, Affordable Housing, and the Gig Economy

2 weeks ago | thewalrus.ca | Kayla Thompson

What the Election Didn’t Answer, We Will Canada has recently faced many political questions: How do we address ongoing tensions with the US? What is our place in the world? Is it time for a change in the Parliament? There has been much debate on how we should respond to those questions, but many other critical issues remain: economic concerns, climate emergencies, limitations in the housing market, and an increasingly strained health care system.
Another Premier, Another Power Grab

2 weeks ago | thewalrus.ca | Trevor Corkum

On March 5, hundreds of Nova Scotians gathered in front of Province House, the provincial legislature, in Halifax. Many held handmade signs, including one featuring Premier Tim Houston transformed into a Donald Trump doppelganger, and slogans like “Nobody voted for Tim Trump,” “Please dump the Trump playbook,” and “We want democracy.
Mark Carney Promised Affordable Housing. Now Comes the Impossible Part

2 weeks ago | thewalrus.ca | David Moscrop

Speaking to reporters in Rome on Sunday, where he was attending the inaugural mass for Pope Leo XIV, Prime Minister Mark Carney was asked about housing prices. The question from reporter Mackenzie Gray was simple: “Do you want house prices to go down in Canada?” The answer was less simple. When Carney’s cabinet was sworn in last week, new housing minister Gregor Robertson took a lot of heat for answering no to that question, but his answer was more complex than he’s getting credit for.
I’ve Visited Guantánamo 28 Times as a Reporter. It Still Defies Belief

2 weeks ago | thewalrus.ca | Michelle Shephard

The cognitive dissonance begins from above. The stunning aquiline waters and jagged Cuban coastline of Guantánamo Bay come into view, and our plane makes a dramatic arc before landing on the US naval base that Amnesty International dubbed “the gulag of our times.” Of the 123 people on board, 107 of us are here to watch the military prosecution of the five men the Pentagon says planned, funded, and executed the September 11, 2001, attacks that killed 2,977 people. We’re ranked by group.
How to Make a Living as a Writer

2 weeks ago | thewalrus.ca | Gabrielle Drolet

When people ask what I do for a living, I’m faced with two choices: either I can lie or I can bore them with the truth, which is too complicated to explain succinctly. While those around me have normal, definable jobs—accountant, journalist, engineer—my work requires headings and subheadings to get it across properly: a map of overlapping gigs and contracts. “What do you do?” It’s a simple question that often gets asked on first dates.