Tag: The Walrus

To earn money during a rough patch as a freelancer, Sam Riches worked as a bike courier, delivering food in Toronto during a six-month period. While the job lacked in pay, it offered one intriguing benefit: a crash course in human nature.

A fish biologist makes a strong case against eating fish.

“In a poem, we feel what is there, but also what is not.”

When someone you love has a fatal disease and chooses to die on their own terms, how do you cope?

Canada’s new middle class lives paycheck to paycheck, unwilling to give up certain lifestyle choices.

In The Walrus, Peter Norman boats for a week with followers of Canada’s fear-mongering conspiratorial conservative, Ezra Levant.

At The Walrus, Nadim Roberts profiles a Canadian imam who is working to counter radicalization with knowledge.

In The Walrus, Natalie Zina Waschots describes her time doing search-engine optimization for a Toronto pornography curator.

The best stories of the week, as chosen by the editors of Longreads.

While we Americans were busy debating the latest in Joe Biden’s will-he-or-won’t-he status and trying to keep track of just how many Republicans are still in the race, Canada went ahead and elected* their next Prime Minister. So who is the soon-to-be resident of 24 Sussex? Justin Trudeau, the leader of Canada’s Liberal Party, is a […]

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This week, we return to your regularly scheduled Longreads programming. The theme? Food: queering food, eating Pokemon, the potential of Soylent, tasting curly fries for a living, and Canadian food trucks. 1. “America, Your Food is So Gay.” (John Birdsall, Lucky Peach, June 2013) “It’s food that takes pleasure seriously, as an end in itself, an […]

Below, our favorite stories of the week. Kindle users, you can also get them as a Readlist. Sign up to receive this list free every Friday in your inbox. ***

“The Meaning of White.” Emily Urquhart, The Walrus.

A man develops Alzheimer’s Disease, and his wife learns to cope with it: While most people associate Alzheimer’s with memory loss, its effects on reasoning and behaviour are no less defining, and arguably more problematic. The doctor scans his notes from their last visit and asks if their nights are still “disturbed.” Once or twice […]

A look at Degrassi, 25 years after resonating with teens: Degrassi ’s grassroots approach to social class served as a near-invisible narrative strategy, but it anticipated the show’s most memorable legacy: its unflinching, plain-spoken treatment of pregnancy, suicide, interracial dating (a big deal in 1987), and HIV/AIDS. What’s more, Degrassi didn’t treat its characters with […]