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Standoff at 1492 Land Back Lane
How twenty-five acres of Ontario farmland have become a new front in the battle for Indigenous self-governance

BY LUKE OTTENHOF
https://thewalrus.ca/standoff-at-1492-land-back-lane/

Standoff At 1492 Land Back Lane

OCD Is Not a Joke
People with obsessive-compulsive disorder are often depicted as Type A clean freaks. The reality is much worse

BY LISA WHITTINGTON-HILL
https://thewalrus.ca/ocd-is-not-a-joke/

OCD Is Not A Joke

Finding My Voice as My Mother Lost Hers
Not long after I started my job as a radio host, my mother told me she had tongue cancer

BY MINELLE MAHTANI
https://thewalrus.ca/finding-my-voice-as-my-mother-lost-hers/

Finding My Voice As My Mother Lost Hers

How Do We Exit the Post-Truth Era?
Why fact-checking alone won't save us from fake news

BY VIVIANE FAIRBANK
https://thewalrus.ca/how-do-we-exit-the-post-truth-era/

After The Facts

The Campus Mental Health Crisis

In old age, I had to come to terms with the loneliness I’d felt all my life
https://thewalrus.ca/on-aging-alone/
BY SHARON BUTALA

On Aging Alone

Foreign students are lied to and exploited on every front. They’re also propping up higher education as we know it
https://thewalrus.ca/the-shadowy-business-of-international-education/
BY NICHOLAS HUNE-BROWN

The Shadowy Business of International Education

Sky-high housing prices have always been a problem in urban areas. Now, people are being priced out all over
https://thewalrus.ca/small-town-homes-big-city-prices-welcome-to-the-everywhere-boom/
BY SEAN WETSELAAR

Small-Town Homes, Big-City Prices: Welcome to the Everywhere Boom

My job title was personal assistant, but all my duties pertained to Harvey’s collection. Provenance was everything. A purchase had to be like a royal marriage, the lineage assured.
https://thewalrus.ca/private-hands/
BY MICHAEL LAPOINTE

FICTION: Private Hands

Effected Development

The mystique that has helped cement the RCMP as a national symbol is also what renders it particularly, stubbornly difficult to reform
https://thewalrus.ca/can-the-rcmp-be-saved/
BY JANE GERSTER

The Dark Side of the RCMP

Our tech-driven approach to neighbourhood watch is cementing community divisions
BY NAVNEET ALANG
https://thewalrus.ca/porch-cameras-and-facebook-groups-are-turning-streets-into-surveillance-states/

Porch Cameras and Facebook Groups Are Turning Streets into Surveillance States

Tradition dictates that perpetrators and victims must meet in court. COVID-19 showed that wasn’t necessary
BY SOPHIA WATSON (PSEUDONYM)

My Day in Zoom Court: Virtual Trials Are a Better Option for Sexual Assault Survivors

When My Wife Developed Alzheimer’s, The Story of Our Marriage Kept Us Connected
https://thewalrus.ca/when-my-wife-developed-alzheimers-the-story-of-our-marriage-kept-us-connected
BY STEPHEN TRUMPER

The Love Letter

What Women (Still) Want
The medical community has never taken women’s sexual desire seriously. Now, Gen X women are hitting menopause and demanding better
BY SARAH BARMAK
https://thewalrus.ca/what-women-still-want/

What Women Still Want

Textual Healing: The Novel World of Bibliotherapy
How literature is helping people navigate mental health issues
BY KATRYA BOLGER
https://thewalrus.ca/bibliotherapy/

Textual Healing

Faith and Access: The Conflict Inside Catholic Hospitals
Why should publicly funded hospitals get to limit access on religious grounds?
BY WENDY GLAUSER
https://thewalrus.ca/catholic-hospitals/

Divine Intervention

All Booked Up: The Frustrations of Finding a Black Therapist
Racism's mental health fallout is staggering. But Black Canadians aren't finding the care they need
BY ALICIA LUE
https://thewalrus.ca/why-are-there-so-few-black-therapists/

All Booked Up

Jaskirat Singh Sidhu readily accepted his jail sentence after killing 16 people, but is now fighting his deportation. What should justice look like after an accident?

BY SHARON J. RILEY

How Much Punishment Is Enough for the Driver Who Caused the Humboldt Crash?

Canadian soldiers helped train more than 30,000 of their Ukrainian counterparts. Many are left wondering about their legacy
https://thewalrus.ca/canada-training-ukraine/

BY SARAH LAWRYNUIK

What Impact Did Canada’s Military Have on Ukrainian Resistance?

The Beekeeper

She first gained fame as a child actor. The writer and director has been confronting the traumas of these early experiences ever since

BY SARAH LISS

Who Does Sarah Polley Think She Is?

How risk avoidance shapes our entertainment

BY SORAYA ROBERTS

The Superficial Diversity Of Canadian TV

COVID-19 didn’t spare workers in manufacturing, but two years on, information about their deaths remains hard to find

BY NORA LORETO

Why Is the Pandemic Death Toll among Workers Still a Mystery?

Sex Workers

The Rings Of Power Has A Troll Problem

Who Loses As Online Betting Takes Over Sports

Lines In The Oil Sands

"Grifter" is written by Michael Lista and read by Lloyd Robertson. It first appeared in the June 2017 issue of The Walrus magazine and was adapted into a podcast by Accessible Media Inc.

Grifter

Pleasure Principal

Louie Palu is an award−winning photographer who stretched the boundaries of his emotional and mental capacities covering the war in Afghanistan. He came back a different man—which, as his friend and fellow journalist Christie Blatchford describes, is a common experience in their profession. Author and doctor Vincent Lam adds the heft of his medical knowledge to the conversation, and Benjamin Hertwig reads his poetry about coming back from war.

Frontlines

Forget everything you think you know about Tom Mulcair. The former leader of the New Democratic Party sat with Noah to talk about what happened after the 2015 federal election, when he had to shake hands with the victor across the aisle. What is the role of the leader after the fall? Plus, Patti LaBoucane-Benson reflects on the larger theme of leadership through Indigenous models of apprenticeship, with leaders and elders.

The Fall

Our ties to places we call home can cause us joy and pain, and while there are plenty of Canadians who are away from home, missing home, or calling a new place their homes, Noah spoke to two young Indigenous artists about their ideas of home. Dale Alexis, a Cree man from the Enoch Cree Nation outside Edmonton, and Hunter Cardinal, of American Jewish and Cree descent, both decided to leave the metropolis and the burgeoning success they were enjoying here. With a special interview and reading by Griffin Poetry Prize winner Billy-Ray Belcourt.

Home

Yoga's Culture of Sexual Abuse: Nine Women Tell Their Stories

Tax Niʔ Pik̓ak (A Long Time Ago)

Why Do We Have Such a Problem With the Way Women Speak?

The Art Of The Strike

Two stories about how death or near-death changed lives forever. Toronto Transit Commission streetcar operator Jason Banfield did not expect a tedious afternoon to become tragic, but when a pedestrian ran into the middle of the street, that afternoon, and his life dramatically changed. Bradford Parady, an American lobsterman who has worked in Nova Scotia, has struggled with his mental health his whole life. In 2016, he tried to kill himself and survived, but he still has a bullet in his brain. Where did they go from here?

Pivot from The Walrus

What the Next Stop Brings

Sex is something that comes with all kinds of markers—the first time, the best time, how many times, and so many more. But what about sex addiction? Erica Garza has written extensively about her addiction to porn and sex and the pivotal moments in the very personal journey to where she is today. It’s hard to talk about sex without thinking of Savage Love, the internationally syndicated column written by Dan Savage, so we asked him to weigh in on relationships and sex addiction.

Love Thyself

Survival: Cherie Dimaline

Teaching Indigenous Star Stories
Educators like Wilfred Buck know that astronomy did not, in fact, start with Aristotle and end with Neil deGrasse Tyson
BY KELLY BOUTSALIS

https://thewalrus.ca/space-teaching-indigenous-star-stories/

Teaching Indigenous Star Stories

Survivors of an International Buddhist Cult Share Their Stories
An investigation into decades of abuse at Shambhala International
BY MATTHEW REMSKI

https://thewalrus.ca/survivors-of-an-international-buddhist-cult-share-their-stories/

The Wrong Side Of The New Age

Canada’s history of slavery has had a profound impact on how we view cross-racial couples
BY CHARMAINE A. NELSON
https://thewalrus.ca/our-unspoken-discomfort-with-interracial-relationships/

Our Unspoken Discomfort With Interracial Relationships

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