The Walrus

Last month, the New York Times published an article about Prime Minister Mark Carney securing a majority government. In the article, Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre is quoted denouncing the members of his party who had crossed the floor to join Carney’s Liberals. “If these turncoats have any shred of integrity left, they should resign their seats tonight a...

My grandmother used to tell a rolling personal anecdote about the dirty ’30s, the principal beats of which were scarlet fever, grasshoppers, dust storms, and wheat crops full of rust, the fungal disease that wrought destruction on cereal crops across North America in the early half of the twentieth century. Her point was always to drive home the many scientific and agricultur...

When OpenAI announced it had flagged the account of the Tumbler Ridge shooter, Jesse Van Rootselaar, months before the attack, the public was taken aback. Could this tragedy have been prevented? Eight people were killed, six of them children. OpenAI is not responsible for the crime, but it’s hard not to wonder whether a report to the police might have led to a different outco...

Last month, John Fraser published a book about Canada’s governors general. It’s a topic that seems so preposterously dull that even Fraser’s own publisher said, “Better you sell me a book on the softwood lumber industry.” But what Fraser eventually turned ...

Millennium Challenge was the name of a $250 million (US) war game, perhaps the most expensive in hi...