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How Loblaw Kills Off Competition without Anyone Noticing
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The story we tell ourselves about capitalism is that it’s a free market system in which firms slug it out for the privilege of selling us an apple or a mid-siz...
Canada’s Immigration Policy Is Hypocritical and Damaging, Says Gabor Maté
Gabor Maté in Warsaw, Poland, 2025. (Neil Milton / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)
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By Diary Marif
Canada is moving toward stricter immigration and asylum rules. Bill C-12, passed in March, limits...
The Walrus’s Most-Read Articles of June 2026
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This month, our top reads were full of frequently asked questions. Our friends at the Center for Strategic and International Studies put together an informative Q&A about Canada and the US’s increasingly rocky defence...
Why Canada Needs to Walk Away from NORAD
A NORAD operations centre in Colorado Springs, 2000. (Alamy)
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An intercontinental ballistic missile is detected. At first, disbelief, confusion, then a realization: the missile comes...
She Wanted to Be Seen as a Writer. The World Saw Her as a Sex Worker
Photo by Marcelo Troche
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By Myra Bloom
On September 16, 2007, Nelly Arcan appeared on Tout le monde en parle, a popular weekly panel show in Quebec with a viewership of 2 million people....
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