The Federal Budget Drops Tomorrow: Here’s What to Expect - The Carney government will have to balance infrastructure investment with the needs of average Canadians
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- The Federal Budget Drops Tomorrow: Here’s What to Expect - The Carney government will have to balance infrastructure investment with the needs of average Canadians
Alberta Chases Data Centres. Residents Are Fighting Back - Communities fear being sold out in the AI gold rush 
Carney Wants Ten New Nuclear Reactors. Who Will Build Them? - The sales pitch will take skills, money, and time we may not have
- The Federal Budget Drops Tomorrow: Here’s What to Expect - The Carney government will have to balance infrastructure investment with the needs of average Canadians
- Alberta Chases Data Centres. Residents Are Fighting Back - Communities fear being sold out in the AI gold rush
- Carney Wants Ten New Nuclear Reactors. Who Will Build Them? - The sales pitch will take skills, money, and time we may not have
Canada’s Spies Have a Trump Problem - We’ve long relied on US intelligence to spot threats. Now that dependence is a threat of its own 
Tech Moguls Are Mistaking Science Fiction for a Political Plan - Jill Lepore traces the fantasies behind Silicon Valley’s plans for our future 
Trump Has His Finger on Canada’s Kill Switch - Patriotic defiance means little if Washington can shut off the systems we need 
How Canada Gains from America’s Brain Drain - A $1.7 billion federal program is attracting leading minds from Harvard, MIT, and more 
Drowned Towns, Lost Ships: A Spooky History of Lake Ontario - The unknown is alive in those dark waters 
I’m Watching the US Midterms from Canada. I’m Not Feeling Safe - I came of age during Vietnam and watched Watergate unfold. This election frightens me in ways neither did 
Trudeau’s Defiance of Trump Set the Stage for Carney - He saw through American designs and called out the president when few other nations dared to
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.
Inside the December 2026 issue of The Walrus
➔ Scammers pretending to be grandchildren are robbing the elderly
➔ Scores of men are travelling to Istanbul for hair transplants. Is it Worth it?
➔ Karim Nader changed how we think about memory. Then a disease started to change him
➔ Mejuri promised affordable luxury. Then the jewellery giant lost its shine
➔ The real reason we hate MFAs
My guest on this episode is Maria Reva. Maria is an author and opera librettist whose debut book was the collection Good Citizens Need Not Fear. Her most recent book is the novel Endling, published by Knopf Canada in 2025. That book won the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Gordon Burn Prize, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and the Amazon First Novel Award. It was also nominated for The Booker Prize, the Governor General’s Literary Award For Fiction, and the Climate Fiction Prize. The New York Times called it “startling and ambitious” and “a shining novel.”
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 First World War turned hundreds of thousands of Canadians into veterans, many returning home in 1918 with little support to help them reintegrate into society. Their need for support led to the creation of The Royal Canadian Legion. This episode explores the Legion’s origins, its growth, and its ongoing work supporting Canadian veterans. Hear from a navy veteran and peacekeeper about the fight to establish the Legion’s Operational Stress Injury Special Section, and discover the struggles and triumphs of the First World War veterans who founded the organization.
Alberta Chases Data Centres. Residents Are Fighting Back - Communities fear being sold out in the AI gold rush
Wild Buffalo Make a Comeback on the Canadian Plains - Herds are returning to lands they haven’t roamed in generations
No One Told Me I Was at High Risk for Breast Cancer - It took years to learn just how vulnerable I was
Other People’s Houses - In these moments, it feels like anything is possible. Anything at all
