Labour in the Shadows
A program that was meant to rescue temporary, foreign workers from abusive employers may be retraumatizing them instead.
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Episodes (100)
Was the Winnipeg Art Gallery led by a Nazi?
Research suggests trail-blazing art gallery director Ferdinand Eckhardt may have been a supporter of The Third Reich
What does defense really mean?
The United Nations prohibits the use of force except in the case of self-defense but that can too easily be molded into a euphemism for retaliation, revenge and punishment
The Rise and Fall of MuchMusic
Former staffers reveal what made the channel so special - and why MuchMusic has failed to reclaim its former glory despite a relaunch
The Quebec government's plan to kill English universities
The Quebec provincial party's most radical base will be satisfied only if English-speaking institutions disappear from Montreal's landscape.
Voices of The Walrus
en-caFebruary 18, 2024
How Connie Walker got us listening
The Pulitzer prize-winning podcaster is changing journalism as we know it
Voices of The Walrus
en-caFebruary 18, 2024
My guilty Pleasure
Doomscrolling is Casey Plett's guilty pleasure, scanning curated feeds, checking news sites, opening links, high-calorie information on tap for immenent consumption
Voices of The Walrus
en-caFebruary 11, 2024
The Lonely Genius
How a giant of Caribbean literature would up among hay bales and cowboys
Voices of The Walrus
en-caFebruary 11, 2024
All Aboard?
The diminishng romance of train travel
Voices of The Walrus
en-caFebruary 11, 2024
The activist who made the TTC accessible
Beryl Potter was a gadfly on a quest to make the TTC easier to use for people with disabilities. The fruits of her labour can be seen to this day.
Everybody's ADHD is different
Pediatrician David Wong has learned that medicine alone doesn't do all the work that people with ADHD need
The lobby group that owns Assisted Death
Dying with Dignity Canada played a huge part in the legalization of MAID. Few have the resources to oppose them
Voices of The Walrus
en-caFebruary 04, 2024
We may be stuck with Doug Ford
How did we end up with a guy like Doug Ford and how do we get rid of him?
Voices of The Walrus
en-caFebruary 01, 2024
How much further can mining go?
Nauru fits the wider pattern of many remote resource hinterlands in the global south, where frontiers are invented exploited and abandoned.
Voices of The Walrus
en-caFebruary 01, 2024
The inescapable rise of moral superiority
Why does every online discussion terminate in ethical grandstanding?
Voices of The Walrus
en-caFebruary 01, 2024
One day, chat GPT will move you to tears
Even if ChatGPT wrote better poems than we ever could, we would still write poetry. Because there is more to writing than generating text.
Art of the Steal
Why are plundered African artifacts still in Western museums?
Voices of The Walrus
en-caJanuary 21, 2024
It's time for a birth control revolution
What the pill teaches us about the failure and future of women's health care.
Voices of The Walrus
en-caJanuary 14, 2024
The philosopher helping countries protect minority rights
From Nepal to Bolivia, Will Kymlicka is reshaping global policy.
Voices of The Walrus
en-caJanuary 14, 2024
Vaclav Smil is Fed Up
The acclaimed enviromental scientist Vaclav Smil is criticizing climate activists shunning media, and stepping back just when we need him most
Voices of The Walrus
en-caDecember 24, 2023