Ford picked a fight with Trump over energy exports because the illusion of leverage was all he needed. But anyone who looked at the books knew it was a bluff.

In the frigid Atlantic waters off Nova Scotia’s east coast, two orcas—a mother and her calf—swim freely within a long bay. They dive up to eighteen metres to the ocean floor, where rock crabs, sea ...

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R ecently, I showed up in Picton, Ontario, to slake a thirst that I worked up while scouting local quarries for trilobites. I noticed the cute but hobbit-free Shire Hall, the seat of government for ...

ARTS & CULTURE / JULY/AUGUST 2025 The “Buy Canadian” Movement Goes Almost as Far Back as Confederation Ads, images, and ephemera from the country’s many attempts to assert itself BY ARTHUR DENNYSON ...

Nationalism is inherently interesting. There are varieties: left, right, civic, ethnic. There are different, competing definitions. There are benign, if cloying, manifestations and malignant ones. As ...

Even more striking is how widespread the collapse in support has become. Across every region, the pattern holds: Legault is viewed unfavourably by 71 percent of respondents in Greater Montreal, 74 ...

Since the turn of the millennium, Karen Solie has been the coolest of cool new things in Canadian poetry—a mysterious figure, everywhere and nowhere at once. Everywhere because her books have received ...

A group of friends plays cards and streams a hockey game at Mackay Lake Lodge, NWT. Even when I’m working at a remote cabin, it is hard to truly escape the rest of the world. Starlink, the internet ...

The argument for nuclear weapons is that they offer protection against existential threats, but some countries have much lower thresholds. For instance, in 2001, a senior army adviser to Pakistan on ...

We don’t know the “why,” beyond the assertion that the US gave Iran time to agree to abandon its nuclear weapons program and that the time ran out. There was no mention at either of the press ...

At The Walrus, we believe it’s not enough to simply report on an event. We strive to understand what led to it, what it means, and what might come next. That’s why we swiftly published a clear-eyed, ...