China executed 4 Canadians this year. Why? To intimidate citizens and send a message to foreigners: “obey or else.” My latest article explores how the CCP’s callousness threatens global norms that protect all of us, undermining its own propaganda. Link in comments 🧵1/7 #ChinaCanada #DeathPenalty

Before You Share That Health Tip, Read This | The Walrus Misinformation is everywhere. And yes, some of it has probably gotten to you

🚨My TOP 10 concerns with misinformation:

#1: Increasingly linked to political identity!

#2: Rising distrust driven BY misinformation

#3: Misinformation about misinformation

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On July 8, the RCMP arrested four individuals accused of terrorism and other offences, all of whom had links to the military. Their case is unique: a mix of loathsome ideas, lethal weaponry, and multiple bad actors. Wesley Wark investigates: thewalrus.ca/rcmp-uncovers-do...

The Bloc Wants to Break Up Canada—but Not Yet | The Walrus A surge of national unity has swept Quebec. It’s only a matter of time before the sovereignty debate resurfaces

“What the Bloc sometimes lacks in seats, it makes up for in stagecraft, carefully choreographed by its current leader. Blanchet understands politics as performance.”
My latest for @thewalrus.ca
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There Was a Time Canada Really Did Build, Baby, Build | The Walrus Lessons from when we skipped the consultants and produced the materials that won a war

There Was a Time Canada Really Did Build, Baby, Build, Erin O’Toole writes. thewalrus.ca/there-was-a-...

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The rise in nationalist sentiment since Donald Trump’s inauguration has been extraordinary. One of @davidmoscrop.com’s takeaways? The nationalist ad frenzy that ensued has proven that just about anything can—and will—be hijacked and commodified for profit. thewalrus.ca/is-this-canada-o...

Canada Day Polls Reveal a Divided Sense of Pride and Promise While most Canadians feel proud to be Canadian, optimism about quality of life and opportunity splits along party lines.

📊While most Canadians feel proud to be Canadian, optimism about quality of life and opportunity splits along party lines.

🍁A Divided Sense of Pride and Promise, the latest from @canadianpolling.bsky.social and myself for 338 ↓ www.338canada.ca/p/canada-day...

Canada’s Archives Are in Trouble—and So Is Its History | The Walrus Years-long delays, archaic privacy laws, and chronic underfunding are threatening our national memory

In which I complain that Canada's most important historical institution makes it harder to tell Canada's story:
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In recent years, a cascade of apocalypses has hit the publishing industry. How, then, has Gaspereau Press managed to defy a destabilized industry for three decades? Author Thea Lim explores: thewalrus.ca/gaspereau-press/

As Carney Will Learn, Canada Is a Country That Grinds Down Every Prime Minister | The Walrus Bill C-5 was the easy part

As Carney Will Learn, Canada Is a Country That Grinds Down Every Prime Minister, @davidmoscrop.com writes. thewalrus.ca/as-carney-wi...

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The G7 Summit Was Really about One Man | The Walrus Trump didn’t just dominate the room. He warped the tone, the agenda, and the very idea of global co-operation

The good folks over at @thewalrus.ca reposted this week's newsletter, from the G7: thewalrus.ca/the-g7-summi...

Wellwater, poet Karen Solie’s seventh collection, “is her best yet,” writes Nicholas Bradley. With increasing linguistic restraint and a deepening religious sensibility, the poems offer readers something her past work hid—glimpses of a somewhat less guarded poet. thewalrus.ca/she-writes-about...

Pierre Poilievre Is Not Backing Down | The Walrus The Conservative leader is plotting a comeback. But first he’ll need to prove he’s more than an opposition brawler

This is what it looks like when I pontificate:

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What Happens When a River Is Given Legal Rights | The Walrus An idea so radical, it might just save the world

What happens when a river is given legal rights? @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social writes about the radical idea in the Weekend Read this week in @thewalrus.ca. An excerpt from his new book Is a River Alive?
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Frustration with Ottawa has been a part of politicking in Alberta since the province joined Confederation in 1905, but new political shifts are fanning old separatist flames. The Walrus’s Western Canada correspondent, @cfrangou.bsky.social, explores: thewalrus.ca/alberta-is-talki...

As a child, writer Minelle Mahtani’s prayers were elaborate and full of rules, but the most fervent of them all was perhaps the simplest: “God, please make sure I don’t let my mother down.” thewalrus.ca/my-mother-was-my...

Valérie Bah wins the 2025 Amazon Canada First Novel Award!

In Subterrane (Esplanade Books/Véhicule Press), Black and Queer creatives navigate a booming city’s shadows in a speculative comedy about the price of prosperity. Learn more: thewalrus.ca/afna
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“I am not going to stay.”

That’s what Chantale Daigle told herself after her partner knocked her to the ground. Daigle decided to leave him—and to end her pregnancy. Journalist and lawyer Karin Wells revisits the historic legal battle that followed: thewalrus.ca/she-wanted-to-en...

The US Badly Needs Rare Minerals and Fresh Water. Guess Who Has Them? | The Walrus As China tightens its grip on critical resources, Trump eyes Canada’s riches

What does Trump really want from Canada? thewalrus.ca/the-us-badly... @thewalrus.ca #criticalminerals

Bilingual, Educated, Qualified—and Still Not Welcome in Quebec | The Walrus As the province seeks to expand on its controversial Bill 21, critics warn of deepening discrimination

ICYMI: “For many Quebecers who express their faith visibly, Bill 21 has meant lost jobs, stalled ambitions, and a deep sense of alienation—of being made to feel like second-class citizens in a province they call home.” @thewalrus.ca
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Looking for something to do this weekend? The new crossword from The Walrus Games is up. Tell us how you did. thewalrus.ca/games/

When @susan-swan.bsky.social‬’s mother measured her height, she was confronted with a problem. “I’m six-foot-two, and I’m only twelve,” she writes. “The measuring contest has presented me with something unfixable: I’m big. Maybe, god forbid, I will get bigger.” thewalrus.ca/in-defence-of-bi...

Bilingual, Educated, Qualified—and Still Not Welcome in Quebec | The Walrus As the province seeks to expand on its controversial Bill 21, critics warn of deepening discrimination

“I work as a federal judge in Canada,” says Farhat, “and currently I don’t even have the right to work as a municipal lawyer in Quebec.” thewalrus.ca/bill-21-queb...

What King Charles’s Historic Speech Means | The Walrus Amid sovereignty scares, Carney is leaning on big symbols

Amid sovereignty scares, Carney is leaning on big symbols.

My story for @thewalrus.ca on King Charles III’s speech from the throne is now published

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Reliable sources tell me this book is excellent

I'm working on a story about sales tracks in publishing and want to talk to literally everyone—writers, agents, editors, you name it—about how it affects their work. DM me or email at tajjadee@gmail.com.

Canadians may see our own problems as relatively mild in comparison to the US, but even though no one fears we are about to lose our democracy, journalist @acoyne.bsky.social knows we need to reform it. thewalrus.ca/canadian-democra...

Leslie makes that very point! Fascinating to consider

The Death of Shopify’s Start-up Dream, One Layoff at a Time | The Walrus How the company chased scale, hit a wall, retrenched, and became the very thing it promised not to be

"The guiding idea was that if people are motivated by a higher purpose, maybe they’ll work like their lives depend on it. When that illusion is shattered, you’re left questioning what purpose you served, if any." thewalrus.ca/the-death-of...

The Economy Is One Tariff Away from a Supply-Chain Meltdown | The Walrus The cost of Trump’s trade war on cars is adding up

'We buy more cars than we build. General Motors, for example, sells 300,000 cars here. Most of them come from the US, but we have the capacity to make as many in Oshawa and Ingersoll'

Flavio Volpe and the future of Canada's car industry.

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