The Walrus

Dubbed “Crackberry” by ardent users—Webster’s New World College Dictionary proclaimed it the Word of the Year in 2006—the impact and influence of the BlackBerry device in the early 2000s could be found everywhere. It featured in pop song titles and explicit rap lyrics; Kim Kardashian was a loyal user; former United States president Barack Obama famously said he was “...

Voters in five provinces and one territory will head to municipal polls in the remainder of 2026, but one of the issues shaping local economies will not be decided inside city halls.

Immigration remains a federal file, yet mayors, chambers of commerce, and local business groups say Ottawa’s cuts to permanent and temporary immigration targets are being felt at the local...

Agnes Ryoo had been trying to get her moles checked out for months. The thirty-two-year-old Toronto resident is Korean Canadian, fair-skinned, and has a smattering of moles all over her body and face. “That combination, plus me being anxious, [means] I’m always afraid of what my moles could become,” Ryoo says. When her family doctor referred her to a dermatologist, she spent ...

As a child, I loved summer rain only as much as its worms
on the driveway, on the sidewalk, on the road where cars passed
until the next morning, which would be sunny and dry and full
of bodies. As if umbilical, two worms could be born—
I had learned from classmates—by snipping one
in half. So I too conducted no great experiment,
only easy cruelty, my ...

Child’s Play

In “Leave the Kids Alone” (March/April), Simon Lewsen argues that we are helicopter-parenting children, who are not in as much danger as parents perceive, and that they in fact benefit from being empowered, age appropriately,...