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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.

  • Image Shape Shifter - Maria Reva, winner of this year’s Amazon Canada First Novel Award, on the creative collision of reality and fiction by The Walrus Lab
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This week on What Happened Next, host Nathan Whitlock is joined by Emily Weedon. Her most recent book is the novel Hemo Sapiens, published by Dundurn Press in 2025. Emily talks to Nathan about the agent who advised her to change the male protagonist of her new novel to a lesbian for no particular reason, about publishing two books in two years and why she does not recommend doing that, and about the book world’s strange and contradictory relationship with hustle culture.

Conversations about accessibility are often framed around legislation and accommodations, but the stories we tell about disability can be equally powerful in shaping how accessibility is perceived and lived. Human rights lawyer and DEIAB consultant Prasanna Ranganathan argues that accessibility requires more than policy change—it demands new narratives that allow us to imagine the inclusive world we seek to build. Ranganathan spoke at The Walrus Talks AccessAbility in Toronto on May 26, 2026.


On this episode of Courage Inc., from Deloitte and The Walrus Lab, Michael Lee-Chin discusses Canada’s opportunity to lead in clean energy and how that leadership can become a powerful engine for long-term wealth creation. Hear how strategic investment in sectors such as nuclear innovation, clean technology, advanced healthcare and building our indigenous business’ can strengthen Canadian sovereignty, build institutional resilience, and create lasting economic value for generations to come.




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  • Michael Prior Residency - The land on which we lived— / the town, the campus—was unceded. / A lawn laid pristinely over theft by Michael Prior

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