Voices of The Walrus
Let us take you into the pages of the Walrus as a chorus of vibrant voices bring to life essays, fiction, poetry, illustrations and photography from some of Canada’s best writers and artists.
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 20 minutes
- Episodes
- 607
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
The end of retirement
Want to keep your house? Support your kids? Stay alive? Some advice; never stop working
00:40:02 |
Sun 05 Nov 2023
The curator of climate change
How to convince museum-goers not to be scared of climate change, or climate solutions
00:15:13 |
Sun 05 Nov 2023
Body and Soul
Dan Harvey was the most physical person Drew Nelles knew. Then he broke his neck.
00:43:56 |
Sun 29 Oct 2023
Daughter - Claudia Dey explores the ugly side of the great literary male
Claudia Dey's wry, furious new novel about a disfunctional family in thrall to their fickle patriarch, tallies the cost borne by women to produce one great literary man
00:09:39 |
Sun 29 Oct 2023
Is Africa's Pain Black America's burden?
Archival article, The civil rights movement improved the rights of African Americans as well as African Canadians. Conditions in Africa meanwhile have become increasingly dire - and are increasingly …
00:35:11 |
Sun 22 Oct 2023
Sovereignty from the North
Archival article , Canada is asleep at the post in the Arctic
00:17:00 |
Sun 22 Oct 2023
Growing Up Trans
The struggle of trans and non-binary people, a first-person account by M.E. Rogan
00:52:34 |
Sun 15 Oct 2023
Late Bloom
It took 30 years for the world to discover Beverly GlennCopeland. Is fame worth waiting for?
00:30:14 |
Sun 01 Oct 2023
The Darker side of Leonard Cohen
How the myth of the male genius shields our cultural heros from scrutiny
00:15:38 |
Sun 01 Oct 2023
Is CanCon obsolete?
When it comes to what qualifies as Canadian, nobody seems happy. It's time to rethink the nationalistic vanity project.
00:11:18 |
Sun 24 Sep 2023
Alanis Obomsawin in action
She's revolutionized cinema and inspired the next generation of Indigenous filmmakers. At ninety-one, she Isn't ready to put down her camera.
00:44:36 |
Sun 24 Sep 2023
Are we losing the war on Cancer?
For half a century, we have thrown everythng we have at the disease, but we are no closer to curing it
00:33:33 |
Sun 17 Sep 2023
The Vaccine Problem
To better weather future pandemics, the way countries procure vaccines needs to change radically
00:16:00 |
Sun 17 Sep 2023
The pursuit of Perfect Skin
Mona Awad felt giddy whenever she burned her face with a cultish acid - all in the pursuit of perfect skin
00:05:51 |
Sun 17 Sep 2023
The Disappearing Island
Houses blown away. No power for weeks. Landmarks crumbling into the ocean. How PEI survived its worst, most expensive storm.
00:33:18 |
Sun 10 Sep 2023
Modernizing the Prairies
The infamous Emma Lake Artists' Workshops were ad hoc, low budget, and falling apart. They also reimagined the possibilities of art.
00:16:53 |
Sun 10 Sep 2023
The Greatest Scam ever Written
How a Montreal copywriter swindled victims out of $200 million by pretending to be a legendary psychic
00:36:57 |
Sun 27 Aug 2023
Bookworms Unite
Patrick deWitt's The Librarianist asks if a life lived through art is really lived at all?
00:12:38 |
Sun 27 Aug 2023
How to prevent Foreign Interference in Elections
Five foolproof ways the Federal government can prevent other countries from meddling with Canadian democracy.
00:19:39 |
Sun 20 Aug 2023
Halal Sex: Growing up devoutly Sufi and nonbinary
What happens when Muslims from traditional families set out to pursue open and active sex lives in the West?
00:24:47 |
Sun 20 Aug 2023
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