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Voices of The Walrus — 610 episodes
$28,600 a Year: What the Average Older Canadian Woman Lives On
My Perfect Friend
The Squamish Nation’s Impossibly Simple Solution to Vancouver’s Housing Crisis
Thirst Trap
How to Close a Diamond Mine in the Northwest Territories
A Quiet Spring
Cold War
Missing
Animal Kingdom
Preparing for Battle
Where Do the Disappeared Go?
MY GUILTY PLEASURE – The EM dash
Trump’s Golden Dome Is a Fantasy. Canada Could Still Be Dragged into It
How to Say No
The Canada Pension Plan Is Funding Trump’s Fossil Fuel and AI Ambitions
Accessible Language Learning: Languages at Work
Canada’s New Defence Strategy Is Bold and Unprecedented. Will It Work?
How to pronounce King
Evan Solomon Wants Canada to Trust AI. Can We Trust Evan Solomon?
How to Keep Your House Clean
Return to Portapique
Canada Is Building a Surveillance Network in Space
Carney’s Wealth Tests the Limits of Canada’s Ethics Laws
What Do Microbes Have to Do with How We Age? Everything, Actually
They Work Full-Time. They Have Degrees. They’re Still Going Hungry
The Most Accurately Predicted Genocide in History
Politics Has Grown Too Big for Politicians Alone
Leave the Kids Alone
Spy Games
When Evidence Can Be Deepfaked, How Do Courts Decide What’s Real?
Canada’s New Submarines Will Be Lethal, Stealthy, and Very UnCanadian
Cohere Is Canada’s Biggest AI Hope. Why Is It So American?
How Universities Are Shutting Out Disabled Students and Staff
Yes, You Can Be Fired While on Maternity Leave
What Is Sex?
What’s Missing in Margaret Atwood’s New Memoir
I Have a Wodehouse Problem. The Problem Is I Can’t Stop Reading Him
The Phantom Writer Who Fooled the Internet
My Guilty Pleasure - Department Stores
Why don’t we take stalking more seriously
What Happens after Young Victims Testify? For Most Kids, Not Enough
A Ghost Fleet of Tankers Is Keeping Russia’s War Machine Afloat. The West Can’t Stop It
The First Cry
How to Trick Your Brain into Making Life Feel Longer and Richer
The Last Red Tory
My Book Was Stolen by an AI Company. Why Does Suing Them Feel Wrong?
Dog parks are the third space I needed
Elon Musk Could Soon Be the World’s First Trillionaire
Canada’s new army of drones is coming
Sure Ultra-Processed Foods Are Bad. But How Does That Help Anyone
Canada Held the Door Open for International Students. Then Slammed It in Their Face
Art in the Age of Donald Trump
The Battle Brewing in Alberta Schools Is Much Bigger than Book Bans
Does the CBC Still Speak for Canada?
How Tamagotchi trained Millennials for the era of needy devices
How I Managed to Write a Book without Going (Too) Broke
MY GUILTY PLEASURE - Battlestar Galactica
Anyone Could Be Anyone
Quantum Threat
The Children Russia Stole from Ukraine
Why Measles Is Back
Swarm
No One Wants to Buy a Condo
When it’s all too much
Publishing’s Gambling Problem
Are We Really About to Trigger an Election over This Budget?
How to Win an 18th-Century Swordfight
A Son, a Scientist, and the Secret of Bioluminescence
Painting in Pixels
Capital Crimes
When Immigrants Oppose Immigration
Even Pigeons are beautiful
Mark Carney Is Not Here to Make Friends
Candy Crush
All Truth, No Reconciliation
Annexation, Eh
Ford’s Plan to Dig a Tunnel under Highway 401 Is Almost Certainly Doomed
Love in the Time of Google Calendar
The Strange Case of Monsieur Perron
Parka Politics
The Green Suit
My Guilty Pleasure – Gossip
Where Cruelty is the Point
Afghanistan’s Lost Generation
Rage Against the Publishing Machine
The Pill That Promises to Cure Grief
The Death of the Middle-Class Musician
How to Govern a Country That Changes Its Mind Every Four Years
What Counts as Antisemitism?
Matchmakers in India Now Have Competition: AI
Mi Amor
You Can’t Solve the Teacher Shortage by Pretending Anyone Can Do the Job
Return to Damascus
Rebels with a Vase
Cult of Lies
Getting Things Right
How to Save Canada
The New Patron Saints of Lesbian Fiction
Odd Woman Out
Need a Knee Replacement? You Can Get it at the Mall
Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism. But the Lie That They Do Is Still Going Strong
Book Banning in Canada Is Quiet, Systemic, and More Effective than Ever
Plastic Money
I Used to Teach Students. Now I Catch ChatGPT Cheats
What Happens After a Death on Campus
My Guilty Pleasure: Spicy Food
The Weight of Numbers
Breaking Story
The Day Assad Fled: Joy, Fear, and the Weight of History
Why Flying Sucks So Much
Inside Doug Ford's plan to starve Ontario universities
Why Do I Minimize My Pain?
MY GUILTY PLEASURE - Long Commutes
Rayne’s World
Did Canada Really Just Build a $7.5 Million Monument That Honours Nazis?
The “Inhuman” Court Case That Helped Sink a Major Law Firm
I Lost My Son to Addiction. No, Privilege Didn't Protect Him
Welcome to University. Good Luck Finding a Place to Live
First Nations Are Rethinking Education in the Yukon. And It’s Working
When Your Landlord Is a Billion-Dollar Corporation
The Politics of “Common Sense” Is Making Us Meaner
Ear Candy: How Hearing Protection Became Cool
How a Would-Be Bomber Rebuilt His Life
Trump’s Trade War Turned Me into a Flag-Waving Nationalist
The Dream Eaters
Is Canada Ready for Life Without the CBC? Pierre Poilievre Thinks So
Should the Arctic Really Brace for an Invasion?
GI Joe
My Guilty Pleasure - lists
Paper Trail
Tipping Isn’t about Service – It’s a Psychological Con Job
Pay Tuition, Follow the Rules, Then Pack Your Bags
Can Chrystia Freeland Lead the Liberals Out of the Wilderness
I List Therefore I Am: Letting Go of Reading Goal Anxiety
Circuit Breakers
The Most Toxic Substance on Earth – and the Tiny Town Volunteering to Host It
Yukoners Are Pissed: The Outcry over Telecom Failures
The Pope’s Feminism: Progress for Women, Just Not Too Much
In Afghanistan, Women Haven’t Given Up
Why the Law Fails Victims of Violent Partners
How the 1980s Engineered the Collapse of the Working Class
The Spectacular Fall of Victoria Gold, Once the Darling of Yukon Mining
Memoirs Are Almost Impossible to Sell
Why Is Canada Protecting the Names of Suspected Nazis?
Want to Raise a Kid in Canada? That’ll Be $293,000. . . and climbing
Cuts to Toronto Schools Are Carving into Bone
Your Doctor Won’t See You Now—or Ever Again
I Can’t Buy a Home, So I’m Fixing Up a Decrepit Farmhouse
Seven Years after #MeToo: What Is the Cost of Speaking Up?
In Gaza, Language Is All We Have Left
Tech Titans Should Pay to Save Canada’s Newsrooms
Lori Wilson reads The Multi-Trillion-Dollar Wellness Industry Is Making Us Sick
An Elite Law School Promised Reforms, Then Made Inclusion Impossible
Lori Wilson reads Blaming Immigrants Is a Gateway to Far-Right Extremism
The Quebec Secession Crisis Is Coming, and Canada Isn’t Ready
The $20 Sandwich That Could Topple Trudeau
My husband wanted to have a child. I didn’t. Here is how it went.
How We Treat Bears in Cities Is Trash
The Carbon Tax Is Good for Canadians. Why Axe It?
The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age
When your lover is a bot
Stealing Winston Churchill
How to Talk to People When You Live Alone
Why Canada Should Worry about Trump's Second Coming
Changing Tides
Spiderman’s Fall
Lake Superior’s Cruise Ship Problem
Remembering Lytton, the Town Wiped Out by Wildfire
The AGO Vs. Wanda Nanibush
How Not to Ask Your Dad about Family Secrets
Terrible Apparel
A Troubled School for Troubled Teens
My Guilty Pleasure - Voice Notes
Bad Impressions
Left on the Battlefield
The Fastest Way to Lose a Court Case? Use ChatGPT.
If He Wins Pt 2
Journalists Are Becoming Cogs in the Outrage Machine
If He Wins
Stop Panicking about Your Kid’s Screen Time
When Facial Recognition Helps Police Target Black Faces
Smokehouse
Why Canada Should Worry about Trump’s Second Coming
Canada’s Prime Ministers: More like Monarchs than You Think
Shadow Government: The Consulting Firms Telling Ottawa What to Do
The Murder Trial That Exposed Toronto’s Police Misconduct Crisis
Canada’s Universities Are a Pipeline for Chinese Military Technology
The Ozempic Era Is Distorting What We See as Healthy
Quebec has to conserve energy in its push to electrify everything.
You Can’t Talk Your Way Out of Depression
As Temperatures Rise, So Does Pressure to Engineer the Ocean
How the “Queen of Canada” and Conspiracy Theorists Splintered a Small Town
It’s Time to Take Phones Away from Students
My Guilty Pleasure: Comics
Cities are good at planting trees but not so good at keeping them
In the Footsteps of Migrants
Quebec's crushing immigration policy
Blood Language
The Upside Down Book
The Perks of Yearning
Dream Machines
My guilty pleasure - diet soda
Why Poilieve will win
How Dennis Lee Cooked Alligator Pie
Yes, it's Okay to Throw Away a Book
The Briefcase (memoir)
Parental Leave is Broken
Welcome to Mass-Market Mountaineering
Hybrid Workplaces are Still a Headache
Taliban Influencers
The Money pit that is Montreal's Olympic stadium
Seven hard truths about the climate crisis
The Tokenism Trap
Robots on the farm
Loblaws has become an everything company
The Ukrainians who refuse to fight
My guilty Pleasure - 80s era dynasty
Deathcare Gold Rush
Joni Mitchell's best album is turning 50!
Beware the newsroom destroying AI
The resistance is coming
The Art Fraud that shook the world
I can do good work if I don't get killed
Let's Brie real
Justin Trudeau's last stand
City in waiting
Danger: your job
Why Conservatives turned against the environment
Deepfakes will break democracy
There's a path to peace in Israel and Palestine
A foiled assassination points to India's increasing recklessness
What being pro-Palestine means to me
Me, my selfies, and I
Why do I constantly have to prove my disability?
Don't get sick in Quebec
Family doctors' burnout is about more than their workload
Was the Winnipeg Art Gallery led by a Nazi?
Labour in the Shadows
Will Canada ever have high-speed rail?
The Rise and Fall of MuchMusic
What does defense really mean?
How Connie Walker got us listening
The Quebec government's plan to kill English universities
The Lonely Genius
All Aboard?
The activist who made the TTC accessible
The lobby group that owns Assisted Death
Everybody's ADHD is different
We may be stuck with Doug Ford
How much further can mining go?
The inescapable rise of moral superiority
Can porn ever be ethical?
Art of the Steal
One day, chat GPT will move you to tears
The philosopher helping countries protect minority rights
It's time for a birth control revolution
Invisible Lives
Vaclav Smil is Fed Up
Canada's National Parks are colonial crime scenes
The Last Vacation-fiction
My guilty pleasure - garbage food
The next target on the war on affirmative action
A Second Genesis
It's high time we brought home Indigenous remains
Hadfield, we have a problem
Would you watch a play about Hydro Electricity?
Just so you know, I Love my Mother
Still Spinning
My Guilty Pleasure
Parental Rights
Jude the Brave fiction)
Who's going to believe me?
Heavy Meddle
Big Babies
What takes us so long?
Sometimes they don't Wake Up
The end of retirement
The curator of climate change
Body and Soul
Daughter - Claudia Dey explores the ugly side of the great literary male
Is Africa's Pain Black America's burden?
Sovereignty from the North
Growing Up Trans
Late Bloom
The Darker side of Leonard Cohen
Alanis Obomsawin in action
Is CanCon obsolete?
Are we losing the war on Cancer?
The pursuit of Perfect Skin
The Vaccine Problem
Modernizing the Prairies
The Disappearing Island
Bookworms Unite
The Greatest Scam ever Written
Halal Sex: Growing up devoutly Sufi and nonbinary
The Canadian Tuxedo is having a moment
How to prevent Foreign Interference in Elections
All the Exciting Media Outlets Are Dying. What the Hell Comes Next?
100 Years after the Exclusion Act, Chinese Canadians Like Me Still Question Their Belonging
The Dangerous Allure of Residential School Denialism
Like a Mother
Noise is all around us
Why we need more car-free school streets
Buddy West
Greener Tracks
The World's Oldest Ultramarathon Runner is Racing Against Death
The Other Front
Notes from Grief Camp
The Problem with Self-care
Ripple Effects
On Earth as in Heaven
We Need to Talk
The Sovereign
Too Easy to Die
Back on One's Paws
Guilty Pleasure
O, Canadarm
Bombs, Bullets and Endangered Birds
PowerTools
Don't Stop the Music
Have you been to a Library lately?
Drivers vs. everyone
Being Black in a small town
People waiting for trial keep dying. Can our corrections system be fixed?
Why are so many psychiatric patients forcibly detained and treated?
Why the moon is the next tourism frontier
How bad is alcohol, really?
Are herrings making a comeback in B. C. ?
How I tried to stop snoring, fix my sleep habits, and confront my mortality
Will AI actually mean we'll be able to work less?
Why Alberta is Bullying its Cities
A Stretch too Far - Lululemon
A Better Shot
Where the Children are Buried
The New Gender Universe
Finding my Religion
Blood & Honey: In defence of the Winnie-the-Pooh slasher flick
I'm not here to make friends, Eh. Big Brother Canada turns backstabbing into art.
Zellers is back. Is nostalgia to blame?
Alone is about much more than pure survival
What UFO fears tell us about trust in government
Many Canadians will never own a home. Does it matter?
Ask a biologist
The Photograph - fiction
We own more dogs than ever before. We didn't think it through.
Ask a Political Scientist
Off the Rails
Ground Rules
Too Little, Too Latte
The Deep Ende
Angry Birds
why do Kids Hate Music Lessons?
The Mental Health Crisis on the other end of the Phone
Bad Faith
Why are we so obsessed with scammers?
Fast Fashion is everywhere on social media. How can teens resist?
The surprising history of Christmas carols
The Notwithstanding clause: Is it time for Canada to repeal it?
The Women's National team taught Canada how to be a soccer country
How period-tracking apps can be weaponized by pro-life advocates
Is Simons Canada's next great department store?
Surgery minimized my chances of getting cancer. It also altered my self-image.
Why the future is Analog.
Who gets to be mentally ill?
Vivek Shraya proves kids books can help us explore messy truths
Rising food prices:Could a Grocer code of conduct help?
Pastoring in the Pandemic
Martial Arts, my father, and me
The Secret of Pierre Poilievre's success
Trade-offs
Tote Couture
Going to Afghanistan?
I Miss being Bored at the Mall
I'm Haunted by the Mansions of my Youth
Why is Canada tearing down its Architectural History?
Finding a Father on Facebook Marketplace
The Air we Share
John Irving revisited
Can a pipeline be a force for good?
Ask an arboriculturist
Cops on substack
Hold my cider
Who loses as online betting takes over sports?
The Rings of Power has a troll problem
Why are sex workers forced to wear a financial scarlet letter?
Lines in the oil sands
Rights and Wrongs
Why don't Millennials have hobbies?
Broken Word
Half-baked
False Convictions
Seeds of Mistrust
Ask a Epidemiologist
The Death Dilemma
Food Fight
Fighting AI with AI - The Battle against Deepfakes
The Gate of Heavenly Peace
Survival Of The Funnest
No Room at the Top
The New Separatist
Tarnished Legacy
The Amazing Climate Race
Climate in the classroom
Ask a Neuroscientist
No Place To Live
In Defense of Garlic in a Jar: How Food Snobs Almost Ruined My Love of Cooking
Baby Pics, Life Lessons, and Obits: What Happened to LinkedIn?
Revenge of the Earthworms
The Case for Nuclear Disarmament
Bro
The Click
Why are there still so few Women Leaders in Politics?
Doctors on TikTok: The Dark side of Medical Influencers
Ruffled Feathers
Out of Office: The Case for More Paid Vacation Days
Saving Robert Zimmerman
If I had me a Porsche
Dead or Canadian
Ask a weather expert
What Tourette's taught me
Breaking Through
Clearing Out
Why is the pandemic death-toll among workers still a mystery?
Leaving Ukraine
A War on the Rich
Ask an Environmentalist
Crime and Endless Punishment
The Beekeeper
The superficial diversity of Canadian TV
Ask an inflation expert
The Story of Sarah Polley
Ask a Refugee Expert: How will the war in Ukraine impact immigration?
Why is Canada deporting front-line workers in the middle of a pandemic?
Discredited
Viral Symptoms: The Rise of Mental Health Diagnosis videos on TikTok
Dreaming in Colour
" Let her eat cake: The Subversive power of Women Feasting "
The Fight for B.C. Forests
The Wave - fiction
Giant Mine's Toxic Legacy
How to boost Organ Donations without more donors
Child Care for all
Students of Death
It's a Drag: Many gay bars are closing, but we can still save them
Underwire under fire: How the Pandemic changed the bra
All Booked Up: The frustrations of finding a Black Therapist
Feeling the Burn: The workout video from Jane Fonda to Peloton
Diary of a black high-school student
TikTok has become a recipe box for traditional Chinese cooking
Ask an Ecology Expert
Confessions of a Bitcoin Widow
Lost in Translation
Why the sudden interest in Black Authors doesn't feel like a victory
Athletes are getting burned by Weed Rules. Is the Sports World out of touch?
Inside Hamilton's Sewergate Scandal
The Procedure
In Bad Company
Divine Intervention
The Cactus that came back from the dead
All aboard the Metaverse: Is the New Digital Frontier Unstoppable?
Challenging the Himalayas: Obsession and Danger in the Parvati Valley
The Year of Witch Lit: Weird Women dominated new stories of suspicion and rapture
Fifty cover letters, three interviews, zero offers: Finding a job still isn't easy
Covid-19 vaccines for kids and the struggle of pandemic decision making
How Meal kits changed my Mind about Cooking
Covid upended the labor market. Why haven't Workers lives improved?
Take two Shrooms and call me in the morning: the medical promise of magic mushrooms
My Uncle the Witch Hunter
Looney Tunes will never die and That's all Folks
Textual Healing
The Growth of Green Investing
What Women (still) Want
Why we need a Good Villain: From Ancient Lore to Pandemic Finger-pointing
Tomorrow's News
The Love Letter
Ask a Supply-chain expert
Ask a Real Estate Expert
To Catch a Turtle Thief
The Ruthless Math of Political Campaigns: Is Big Data bad for Democracy?
My Day in Zoom Court
For the Love of Peat
Three Stories to make your Head Feel Different
Freedom Verse
The Mission
Ask a DNA Expert
Pigeon Power
Long Story Short
Doctors on Call
Neighbourhood Watch
New Brunswick's Medical Mystery
Ask a Hockey Expert
The RCMP Revisited
The Art of the Poster
Is it Time for Unions to Seize the Moment?
Citizen of Nowhere
The Campus Mental Health Crisis
When Positivity turns Toxic
I'm Sick of Reboots and Rewatches and you should be too
Slavery's Ghosts
What do you do with a Billion Grams of Surplus Weed?
How Empty Storefronts are Killing our Neighbourhoods
Breathing Trouble
The Double Exploitation of Deepfake Porn
The Maximalist House
Seahorse
Taken for the Team
Salmon Sickness
Province of No Choice
Students for Sale
Instagram Parent Trap
Life in the Stacks: A Love Letter to Browsing
Affected Development: Will Kids Ever Recover from Isolation?
Anti-Asian Racism is more than a Trending Topic
Same Vaccine, Different Effects: Why Women are feeling Worse afer the Jab.
The Team, the Fan, and the Severed Toes
What's Beyond the Surface of our Skin-care Obsession?
Little Sanctuary
Private Hands
The Great Cannabis Count
Small-town Homes - Big City Prices: Welcome to the Everywhere Boom
When Sports Fans Change the Game
Years of Solitude
Go to the Flow
Ask a Tourism Expert
The Making of Moonstruck
Mark Carney's Next Move
Family Trees
A Dog's Likes
Ask a Constitutional Expert
Doctors with Borders
Mapping Mental Illness
Dancing on a Prayer
The Hidden cost of Rechargeable Batteries
The Emotional Tax of Essential Work
Finding my Voice as My Mother Lost Hers
I Fought the CRA, and I Won
Labelling The Proud Boys Terrorists May Do More Harm Than Good
At Home with Frank Lloyd Wright
Everybody hates Millennials: Gen Z and the TikTok Generation Wars
Is Fast Fashion finally out of Style?
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Life of an Artist
The Mole Hunt
Workplace Harassment goes Virtual
OCD is Not a Joke
What Perks does a Twice-Impeached President Deserve?
After the Facts
How to Teach Kids About Impending Doom
How Immigration Really Works
We're Drinking more in the Pandemic
When Healers do Harm: Women Serial Killers in the Health Care Industry
What does Lockdown even mean Anymore?
Ask an Oil Expert
What DIY Couldn't Do for Me
Standoff at 1492 Land Back Lane
Climate Blues
Death in the Age of Facebook
Funny Bones
Tiny Houses won't fix the Housing Crisis
Crossing the Line
Quitting America
Looking past the Group of Seven
How Real Estate TV became a Cruel Joke
The Rise of Digital Despots
The Epidemic of Teacher Burnout
The Myth of Universal Health Care
Ask an Economist
The Case for Affordable Child Care
The Rise of the Roommate
Do Good Landlords even Exist?
Root Cause
Can Virtual Therapy Replace the Real Thing?
Why Do We See Dead People?
Northern Inroads
My Struggle with Sobriety
Return of the Anti-Vaxers
How to Save the Middle Class
The New Lobster Wars
Our Unspoken Discomfort with Interracial Relationships
The Author Who Shaped the Way we Represent Disability
Welcome to the Willyverse
Consider the Beaver
Forever Homesick
My Mum and Mister Rogers
Rethinking Conservatism
Wrong Side of the New Age
Black In The Ivory Tower
How To Vaccinate 38 Million People
One Last Nightcap
We're Failing our Kids Mental Health
Canadian Media's Racism Problem
When Anne with an E fans Waged War against Netflix
The Butterfly Effect
Stop Whitewashing our National History
The Kids Are Mad As Hell
Space is Not A Frontier
The Fault, Dear Reader, is Not in Our Stars
The East Coast Takes Off
Discovering the Universe through the World's Largest Telescope
The Wild, Wild West of Space Law
Space Junk is a Bigger Extraterrestrial Threat than Little Green Men
What Astronauts can teach us about Mental Health and Isolation
The Giving Economy
Teaching Indigenous Star Stories
Not Recommended
Frog Songs
How Pandemics Shape History
Of Hope and Hobbits
Tables Turned
The Making of An Incel
Words' Worth