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The infamous brawl of 2013 on Mount Everest was shocking for its violence, but also because it contradicted Western stereotypes about Sherpas as passive and nonviolent—an image that Sherpas never asked for, wrote Tashi Sherpa in Alpinist Magazine in 2014.
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Today at 7 p.m.! Concordia University presents The Walrus Talks Cultural Futures. Buy tickets to attend National Gallery of Canada, or watch online for free. Join us: eventbrite.ca/e/the-walrus-t…
Despite being an effective policy, the carbon tax has unfairly become a symbol of bad governance and a scapegoat for voters’ frustration with the current government—and it’s all thanks to Pierre Poilievre, writes Arno Kopecky.
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'I patiently await ultimate success, as I have for my entire life.” Waubgeshig Rice reflects on the agony and paradox of being a fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs:
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Researchers have found an increase in stress, anxiety, and depression among farmers, with one in four having experienced suicidal ideation. Writer Emily Baron Cadloff investigates whether automation might be one way for the industry to avoid burnout.
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Photographer Caitlin Cronenberg long said she had no interest in making movies. Yet her style of photography has always been cinematic—so the creation of her debut film, Humane, should come as no surprise, writes Simon Lewsen.
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There’s still time to buy tickets for tonight’s event National Gallery of Canada, Concordia University presents The Walrus Talks Cultural Futures. Join us: eventbrite.ca/e/the-walrus-t…
For Ukrainians who chose to become witnesses instead of soldiers, sharing the images of destruction online is their way of fighting the information war: by preserving the memory of the dead and the crimes committed by Russian soldiers, writes Jonathan Garfinkel.
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The shock of increasingly severe wildfires has been especially acute in the North. At one point last year, writer Eva Holland points out, nearly 70 per cent of the entire population of the Northwest Territories had been evacuated from their homes.
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Leonard Cohen’s 1992 track “The Future”—which touches on themes of dystopia, a loss of meaning, and a modern world in crisis—offers a glimpse of the artist’s reactionary tendencies, writes Simon Lewsen.
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The Movie Man takes viewers on a tour of Highland Cinemas, a unique movie mecca in Kinmount, Ontario. Sign up for The Walrus newsletter for your chance to win 2 tickets to watch the film DOXA Festival in Vancouver for free. Contest ends April 30. thewalrus.ca/DOXA24