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An Acclaimed Canadian Playwright Faces Questions of Pretendianism
Jani Lauzon has maintained she is Métis and her play 1939—now touring Canada—is based on her father’s experience at a ...
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Your Doctor Won’t See You Now—or Ever Again
Four years later, though, the cracks are spreading again. Already people are not being seen at clinics. It means that while ...
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Weekly Quiz: Alternative Medicine, Doctor Shortages, and Changing Tides in Atlantic Canada
How closely have you been reading our online stories this week? Take The Walrus Weekly Quiz to find out—released every ...
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We’re in the Golden Age of Garbage Clothing
We’re in the golden age of garbage clothes. My mother’s made-in-Canada miniskirt feels like a relic from another world. Why ...
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My Husband Wanted to Have a Child. I Didn’t. Here Is How It Went
Since the 1950s, the global average fertility rate has fallen from five children per woman to 2.5, and it is projected to ...
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The False Promise of Starting Afresh in Atlantic Canada
In 2017, my partner and I drove to Prince Edward Island to lead a late-summer writing and yoga retreat. During our visit, a dear friend—then recently divorced—was looking at real estate. She had ...