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To Get Into Medical School, I Thought I’d Have to Hide Parts of My Blackness
“Hi there, I’m Dr. Galloway, an academic cardiologist at University Health Network. I’ll be your interviewer for this station ...
The Walrus3d
The Quebec Secession Crisis Is Coming, and Canada Isn’t Ready
There are three dynamics converging that make the near term an exciting time to be a Quebec sovereigntist and a dangerous one ...
The Walrus4d
In Gaza, Language Is All We Have Left
Every day, I watch Palestinians mourn in the language I speak with my own mother. If the world understood the beauty of their ...
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Did Canada Betray Afghanistan’s Female Soccer Players?
When the Taliban retook the country in 2021, Canada promised its national team visas—tickets to safety. Years later, players ...
The Walrus4d
The Contagion in the Countryside: Train
Rumble of heavy railcars throughout the dark house: an unending pulsing drone of hoppers, flatcars, reefers, grain haulers, ...
The Walrus5d
What’s the Point of Epigraphs Anyway?
Are epigraphs optional? Compulsory? Decorative? Are they a matter of etiquette? Taste? Smell? This aesthetic instability is ...
The Walrus3d
Gerald Butts
The Walrus is located within the bounds of Treaty 13 signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit. This land is also the traditional territory of the Anishnabeg, the ...
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Khaliya Rajan
The winning story in the Youth Short Story category of the 2024 Amazon Canada First Novel Award ...
The Walrus7d
British Columbia’s Election Is a Bellwether for Climate Policy
In this year of high-stakes elections, the choice facing British Columbian voters on October 19 boils down to a familiar binary: acknowledge reality or embrace denial. Embodied by the BC NDP and the ...
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What’s the Point of Epigraphs Anyway?
Writers and readers alike love to argue about the quotations in the opening pages of their favourite books ...