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Ned Blackhawk’s Rediscovery Challenges the Old Stories of America
Though Ned Blackhawk’s heralded new book, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of US History, focuses on America, Canadian readers will see core elements of their own history in...
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It’s High Time We Brought Home Indigenous Remains and Belongings
On June 21, a crowd gathered at the Millbrook Cultural and Heritage Centre in Millbrook, Nova Scotia, cheered and applauded as a red cloth draped over a display case fell away, revealing a set of...
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At Ninety-One, Alanis Obomsawin Is Not Ready to Put Down Her Camera
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Canada’s National Parks Are Colonial Crime Scenes
This story was included in our November 2023 issue, devoted to some of the best writing The Walrus has published. You’ll find the rest of our selections here. In 2017, it felt like the whole country...
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Rethinking Uncertainty in an Insecure Age
Every four years, the United States National Intelligence Council releases a report called Global Trends that attempts to forecast the threats and uncertainties that will shape the world for the next...
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The Best Thing I Could Do for Climate Change Was Go Home
S ometimes the best way to understand what you have is to lose it. Growing up in Whitehorse, I remember having the perfect childhood: bicycling in our backyard, catching frogs, hanging out with my...
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The Darker Side of Leonard Cohen
This story was included in our November 2023 issue, devoted to some of the best writing The Walrus has published. You’ll find the rest of our selections here. When the wave of reckonings triggered by...
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What’s the Point of “Pretendian” Investigations?
On October 27, the CBC’s investigative documentary program, The Fifth Estate, released an episode probing the background of singer, activist, and Canadian icon Buffy Sainte-Marie. Sainte-Marie, now...
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Sovereignty from the North
This story was included in our November 2023 issue, devoted to some of the best writing The Walrus has published. You’ll find the rest of our selections here. Direct, unsparingly honest, and delivered...
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Exclusive: Docs Blocked by BC NDP Raise Questions about First Nation...
In the spring of 2021, all eyes were on Fairy Creek, Vancouver Island. The valley, which contained one of the largest unbroken tracts of old-growth forest in the region, had become a political and...
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How Connie Walker Got Us Listening
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The “Multi-Multi-Multi-Million-Dollar” Art Fraud That Shook the World
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How Workplace Diversity Fails Indigenous Employees
In February 2022, a twenty-one-year-old Ojibwe and Métis woman named Christine Paquette was job-hunting online. She clicked on a posting for an entry-level position in customer service at CIBC. The...
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Colonization Has Made a Taboo Out of Menstruation
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Why Did Canada’s Top Art Gallery Push Out a Visionary Curator?
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Women in Canadian Prisons Are Routinely Separated from Their Newborns
One spring afternoon in 2016, I received a call at my university office from a woman who has chosen to be called Jacquie here. She knew that I was a law professor, and she was seeking help in a deeply...
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The Winnipeg Police Service Is Booming—Despite Blatant Failures
If police kept working-class people safe, Winnipeg would be one of the safest cities in Canada, if not the world. The Prairie city of more than 800,000 people now spends more than one quarter of its...
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Who’s Afraid of Country Food?
“What ceremony would you like to perform to open the exhibition?” Inuit have created a modern ceremony that suits Western institutional special occasions and honours Inuit elders: lighting a qulliq—a...
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Social Media Is Helping Bring Indigenous Languages Back from the Brink
This article is also available to read in Cree. “Tansi, today we are going through some random phrases,” Julia Ouellette says to the camera. She holds up slips of paper with English words while...
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