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  1. Canada Has a Weapon in Trump’s Trade War. It’s Potash by Dale Eisler
  2. What Americans Get Wrong about Canada by Paul Theroux
  3. Alberta Referendum Who’s Who: The Major Players and How They’re Connected by The Walrus Staff
  4. Inside the BC Conservatives’ Spectacular Implosion by Rebecca Gao
  5. Get Your Squishmallows Out of My Kid’s Scholastic Book Catalogue by Michelle Cyca

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Endling by Maria Reva wins 2026 Amazon Canada First Novel Award (Knopf Canada)Endling by Maria Reva wins 2026 Amazon Canada First Novel Award (Knopf Canada)

Amazon Canada and The Walrus are pleased to announce that this year’s winner of the Amazon Canada First Novel Award is Maria Reva for Endling.

Learn more about the winning novel and the entire shortlist.

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This week on What Happened Next, host Nathan Whitlock is joined by Katrina Onstad. Her most recent book is the novel Stay Where I Can See You, published by HarperCollins Canada in 2020. Katrina talks to Nathan about what precipitated her shift into the podcast space, about how publishing a novel in the cursed year of 2020 was a major factor in stopping her from writing fiction for a long time, and how she is starting to feel a new sense of freedom in her writing.

Beneath the noise of traffic, one Toronto space is quietly proving that conversation—not commerce—is what makes a neighborhood. Anna Gallagher-Ross is senior manager of programming at The Bentway, a public space beneath Toronto’s Gardiner Expressway that hosts year-round arts programming and social gatherings. This special episode of The Conversation Piece features content from her presentation at The Walrus Talks at Home: Place and Belonging, supported by The Belonging Forum.


The planes landed within hours. The consequences lasted much longer. Canadian Time Machine returns for Season 5 with a look at 9/11 and its impact on Canada. Kathy Fox, who helped oversee Canada’s air traffic system as hundreds of planes were diverted here, looks back on the decisions made that day, while national security expert Stephanie Carvin traces what followed, from a transformed border and new terrorism laws to a fundamental shift in how Canada approached security.





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  • Image Severed - Random wildflowers. An overspill / of daylilies from our (too-busy-to-) garden by Kateri Lanthier

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