Crossword - The Walrus
Put your knowledge to the test with The Walrus Crossword, crafted by Canadian constructors and curated by Editor Emma Lawson. Solve clues and fill in answers across or down each week.
What’s the Point of Epigraphs Anyway? | The Walrus
Oct 9, 2024 · When pressed to describe what an epigraph does, writers tend to reach for metaphor. In her newsletter Before and After the Book Deal, Courtney Maum calls them, decadently, “apéritifs” and “a spritz of fragrance in a large room.”Thomas Swick conjures grandiosity in Literary Hub: an epigraph is “a ceremonial gate ushering us into the realm of the author,” a book devoid of one “a ...
Letters to the Editor: September/October 2024 | The Walrus
Oct 3, 2024 · Politically Incorrect. Justin Ling’s “Justin Trudeau’s Last Stand” (June) was insightful, but I do challenge the overall flavour of its message, starting with that tired old phrase—“it feels like everything is broken in this country . . . ”—which has been thrown around ad infinitum by Pierre Poilievre. Taking a page out of Donald …
Games - The Walrus
The Walrus is located within the bounds of Treaty 13 signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit. This land is also the traditional territory of the Anishnabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples.
If Pierre Poilievre Wins - The Walrus
Sep 18, 2024 · F or over a year, Pierre Poilievre and his team have been putting out a remarkably disciplined message: we are not the Liberals. Campaigns are about contrast, and in its dark appraisal of the country’s current state, the Conservative Party has honed a rhetoric that offers frustrated Canadians an alternative.
The Carbon Tax Is Good for Canadians. Why Axe It?
Sep 11, 2024 · T he year 2023 was by far the warmest in human history. Climate extremes now routinely shock in their intensity, with a direct monetary cost that borders on the unfathomable. Over $3 trillion (US) in damages to infrastructure, property, agriculture, and human health have already slammed the world economy this century, owing to extreme weather. That number will likely pale in comparison to what ...
The Best Books of Fall 2024 - The Walrus
Sep 4, 2024 · W e scoured countless catalogues for fall’s best new books, reading everything we could get our hands on, courtesy of publishers from coast to coast. If your reading appetites are as omnivorous as ours, you’ll enjoy this year’s roundup, which features something for all tastes—from short stories to multigenerational memoirs to poetry critiques.
Is It Time for Singh to Go? - The Walrus
Aug 7, 2024 · Today, the NDP finds itself in an awkward parliamentary, electoral, and organizational spot. Firmly third in the polls—and the fourth party by seat count in the House of Commons—the NDP is bound to the Liberals by its March 2022 supply and confidence agreement, or SACA, as wonks call it.That deal is designed to keep the minority Liberals in power for progress on policy near and dear to the ...
The Truth about Wanting to Die
Aug 6, 2019 · Stopping at the downtown Toronto office to pick up some things on my way home, I did what later felt like the first dumb thing. An acquaintance—someone I’d met once who had subsequently added me on Facebook and with whom I’d exchanged muted messages during periods of mutual insomnia—struck up the most casual of “how you doing” online conversations.
WordroW - The Walrus
Enjoy a Wordle-inspired challenge with WordroW, where you can flex your word skills by using words shorter or longer than five letters, and even multiple words to crack the puzzle.