The Walrus
The Trouble With Breast Implants
A growing number of women blame their surgeries for serious health problems.
10+ min |
April 2019
The Walrus
The Hidden Hungry
Millions of Canadians can’t afford groceries.
10+ min |
April 2019
The Walrus
Land Of Plenty
Meet the people who are trying to restore Indigenous food practices.
10+ min |
April 2019
The Walrus
Free Rein
When therapy didn’t work out, I turned to horseback riding
3 min |
April 2019
The Walrus
Flood Market
Insurance companies are forcing Canadians to reckon with climate change
6 min |
April 2019
The Walrus
Damned If You Do
What is hell like? It depends on whom you ask
6 min |
April 2019
Briarpatch
“Azaadi”
Inside Indian-occupied Kashmir’s deadliest year in a decade
10+ min |
March/April 2019
Briarpatch
The Resurgence Of The Jewish Left In Canada
While antisemitic hate crimes increase in North America, there’s been a resurgence of the Jewish left – led by young people, rooted in solidarity with other marginalized communities, focused on ending the Israeli occupation, and held together by new articulations of Jewish community and ritual.
10+ min |
March/April 2019
Briarpatch
Saving Akikodjiwan
Developers are building condos on top of sacred Algonquin Anishinabeg islands. Why are Indigenous sacred sites not given the same legal protections as settler ones?
10+ min |
March/April 2019
Briarpatch
On This Patch Of Grass: City Parks On Occupied Land
In June 2018, six people at the Justice For Our Stolen Children Camp were arrested by Regina police.
4 min |
March/April 2019
Briarpatch
If Only They Knew What We Know Now
Excerpts From The Suitcase Project
1 min |
March/April 2019
Briarpatch
How Can Farmers Fight Back Against The New NAFTA?
NAFTA 2.0 is chipping away at policies that guard Canadian farmers from price volatility and ensure high labour and environmental standards. The National Farmers Union says the fight has to combine grassroots and policy advocacy.
10 min |
March/April 2019
Briarpatch
For The Dreamers
In the palm of my hand, I delicately finger a pair of unfamiliar ID cards printed on worn pieces of coloured paper, yellow and salmon pink. The faded type reveals they were issued in the spring of 1941 with approval from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
8 min |
March/April 2019
Briarpatch
Bodies On The Line
Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline replacement slices through the southern half of Saskatchewan, but there’s little Indigenous opposition in the province. To mount our own fight, we’ll have to learn from other Indigenous resistance efforts along the pipeline’s route.
10+ min |
March/April 2019
Canadian Geographic
Volcano Valley
Unbeknownst to the millions who pass through them every year, the mountains of southwestern British Columbia form an active volcanic region thousands of years in the making that could be on the brink of cataclysmic change.
10 min |
March/April 2019
Canadian Geographic
Our Land Our Strength
Reflecting on 20 years of Canada’s newest territory, Nunavut.
8 min |
March/April 2019
Canadian Geographic
Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson
The authors of Empty Planet discuss the causes and implications of global population decline.
4 min |
March/April 2019
Canadian Geographic
Confederation Conflict
How a divisive political battle put Newfoundland on the map.
2 min |
March/April 2019
Canadian Geographic
The Bear That Disappears
Searching for the legendary and mysterious glacier bears of northwestern Canada
6 min |
January/February 2019
Canadian Geographic
Yukon's Big Extinction
Clues to the Great Pleistocene Mammal Extinction Are Being Unearthed by the Thousands
2 min |
January/February 2019
Canadian Geographic
Canada's First Cold War
How Canadians went from fighting Germans in Europe to battling Bolsheviks in Russia after the First World War
2 min |
January/February 2019
Canadian Geographic
Sima Sharifi
The Arctic Inspiration Prize co-founder on celebrating Northern Canada’s achievements and creativity
2 min |
January/February 2019
Canadian Geographic
Home Free
Exploring the historic links to the Underground Railroad and Canadian black history in Chatham-Kent, Ont.
2 min |
January/February 2019
Canadian Geographic
10,000 Square Kilometres Of Remote Mountain Wilderness. Routine White-out Conditions. Avalanche-prone Slopes. More Than 200 Runs. And Just Five Guides.
Heli-skiing the Skeena Tenure
8 min |
January/February 2019
Briarpatch
The War On Boycotts
Jason Kenney is borrowing from Israel’s anti-BDS playbook to take down environmentalists who threaten Alberta’s oil industry.
7 min |
January/February 2019
Briarpatch
The Grunt Work Of Anti-fascism
Despite what the mainstream media likes to show, antifa isn’t all fighting and doxxing
9 min |
January/February 2019
Briarpatch
Wolverine Hunt
Maxine’s great-grandmother, Ikuaalaaq, stands in the centre with her partner Atuat to her right. She stands with five of her eight children, from left to right: Kaludjak, Autut, Jack, Kiali, and Ulurksit. Missing from from the photo are three other children: Siksik, Timuti, and Leopold.
10 min |
January/February 2019
Briarpatch
The Leftist's Case Against The Carbon Tax
It’s a fundamentally libertarian policy – and one that tends to just piss people off, not invigorate them about the possibility of a just and sustainable future.
10+ min |
January/February 2019
Briarpatch
Sending Josephine Home
Josephine Pelletier was shot to death by Calgary police in May. Her life and death shed light on the complicated interplay between colonialism, incarceration, and police brutality. This is her story.
10+ min |
January/February 2019
More of Our Canada
Tales From Way Back When
Despite the hardships, fond memories of growing up during the Great Depression live on
4 min |