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
Was the Winnipeg Art Gallery led by a Nazi?
Research suggests trail-blazing art gallery director Ferdinand Eckhardt may have been a supporter of The Third Reich
00:25:44 |
Sun 10 Mar 2024
Will Canada ever have high-speed rail?
A better, faster train network in Canada has long been a dream for many. It doesn't seems to be happening any time soon.
00:07:57 |
Sun 10 Mar 2024
What does defense really mean?
The United Nations prohibits the use of force except in the case of self-defense but that can too easily be molded into a euphemism for retaliation, revenge and punishment
00:15:40 |
Sun 03 Mar 2024
The Rise and Fall of MuchMusic
Former staffers reveal what made the channel so special - and why MuchMusic has failed to reclaim its former glory despite a relaunch
00:36:36 |
Sun 03 Mar 2024
How Connie Walker got us listening
The Pulitzer prize-winning podcaster is changing journalism as we know it
00:40:41 |
Sun 18 Feb 2024
The Quebec government's plan to kill English universities
The Quebec provincial party's most radical base will be satisfied only if English-speaking institutions disappear from Montreal's landscape.
00:11:23 |
Sun 18 Feb 2024
My guilty Pleasure
Doomscrolling is Casey Plett's guilty pleasure, scanning curated feeds, checking news sites, opening links, high-calorie information on tap for immenent consumption
00:06:03 |
Sun 11 Feb 2024
The Lonely Genius
How a giant of Caribbean literature would up among hay bales and cowboys
00:20:41 |
Sun 11 Feb 2024
Everybody's ADHD is different
Pediatrician David Wong has learned that medicine alone doesn't do all the work that people with ADHD need
00:06:22 |
Sun 04 Feb 2024
The lobby group that owns Assisted Death
Dying with Dignity Canada played a huge part in the legalization of MAID. Few have the resources to oppose them
00:27:29 |
Sun 04 Feb 2024
The activist who made the TTC accessible
Beryl Potter was a gadfly on a quest to make the TTC easier to use for people with disabilities. The fruits of her labour can be seen to this day.
00:23:00 |
Sun 04 Feb 2024
We may be stuck with Doug Ford
How did we end up with a guy like Doug Ford and how do we get rid of him?
00:15:28 |
Thu 01 Feb 2024
How much further can mining go?
Nauru fits the wider pattern of many remote resource hinterlands in the global south, where frontiers are invented exploited and abandoned.
00:26:06 |
Thu 01 Feb 2024
The inescapable rise of moral superiority
Why does every online discussion terminate in ethical grandstanding?
00:09:05 |
Thu 01 Feb 2024
One day, chat GPT will move you to tears
Even if ChatGPT wrote better poems than we ever could, we would still write poetry. Because there is more to writing than generating text.
00:09:16 |
Sun 21 Jan 2024
Art of the Steal
Why are plundered African artifacts still in Western museums?
00:30:26 |
Sun 21 Jan 2024
Can porn ever be ethical?
The new owners of one of the world's largest adult sites are determined to make the company - and the rest of the porn industry - safer.
00:16:46 |
Sun 21 Jan 2024
The philosopher helping countries protect minority rights
From Nepal to Bolivia, Will Kymlicka is reshaping global policy.
00:24:25 |
Sun 14 Jan 2024
It's time for a birth control revolution
What the pill teaches us about the failure and future of women's health care.
00:29:29 |
Sun 14 Jan 2024
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