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Digital Leisure and the Evolution of Play in Canada

On a crowded Toronto streetcar, a woman in her thirties stares into her phone with a kind of private intensity. She isn’t texting or checking...

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Top Online Casinos for Canadian Players in 2025

Popular Online Casinos in Canada in 2025 Online gambling in Canada has grown massively in recent years. In 2025, more Canadians are playing at...

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RCMP Uncovers Domestic Terror Plot with Military Links

T he Royal Canadian Mounted Police, following a lengthy investigation, deployed an emergency response team to arrest four individuals, accused of...

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Wesley Wark

The Bloc Wants to Break Up Canada—but Not Yet

I n the final days of a high-stakes federal campaign, Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet made his feelings known regarding the country...

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Toula Drimonis

As Trump Pushes Tariff War, Ford’s Electricity Bluff Loses Voltage

I n the summer of 2003, a single software bug in an Ohio power plant cascaded into one of the largest blackouts in North American history, plunging...

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Kunal Chaudhary

Poilievre Is Parachuting into Rural Alberta to Win Back His Seat

C onservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre has jumped out of the plane, strapped on a parachute, and is aiming for a giant swath of land in...

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Mel Woods

Weekly Quiz: Burials, Book Bans, and Beleaguered Orcas

How closely have you been reading our online stories this last week? Take The Walrus Weekly Quiz to find out—released every Saturday. The post...

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Kayla Thompson

How I Solved the Century-Old Mystery of a Miraculous Shipwreck Survivor

I t’s the morning of August 22, 2019, and I’m in a Zodiac bouncing along the waters of the St. Lawrence River. It can hold six divers and all their...

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Eve Lazarus