Caribou harvests. Hunting bag creation. Story circles. First Nations students across the Yukon are being immersed in a culturally specific curriculum—and their academic performance isn’t the only thing improving because of it. @rhrussell explores:

“A lone voice called out: ‘No Nazis.’” Public historian Taylor Noakes explains the controversy behind Ottawa’s latest monument, the Memorial to the Victims of Communism:

In episode three of this six-part series from @theVHEC and The Walrus Lab, @Timothy_Taylor_ uncovers new clues about his mother’s time in hiding. His search leads to Delbrück, revealing more about those who helped her survive. 🎧 Listen:

Many of the lists in Karen Solie’s notebook are part of her research for poems or essays or teaching. But research is inspired by purpose, and many of Solie’s lists are—at first glance—purposeless (and sometimes partially indecipherable).

The Yukon First Nations School Board follows British Columbia curriculum—as all Yukon schools do—but their programming and assessment methodology are informed by First Nations world views. The result? A more engaged cohort of First Nations learners.

For writer @AriellaGarmaise, there’s a vibrating danger underlying the adoration of @raynefq’s fans. They want to read Rayne, they want to meet Rayne, they want to be her best friend, and one day, they want to be her.

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“What is my language / really for? Not to languish on the page / unheard & unlived, but to hold another / person, to address them.”. 2023 Vallum Poetry Award winner Bridget Huh makes space for compassion and connection, in “Poem”:

In the legal system, installing the wrong people in the wrong places can result in all kinds of ripple effects. Take the Castor Holdings case, where an unwillingness to settle and an attachment to process led to the longest legal saga in Canadian history.

What’s on your to-do list?. In the latest instalment of our #GuiltyPleasures series, poet Karen Solie meditates on the joys of making and archiving lists:

Modern-day grocery shopping evokes a certain feeling of dread, like a “knife twist in the gut as you wait to see if there’s more in your chequing account than in your grocery cart,” writes comedian Jordan Foisy.

It seems increasingly clear that the pressure to adhere to the rigid and largely mythical notion of masculinity currently pushed in pop culture is not a constructive trend, precisely because there is no right way to be a man, writes @CaulfieldTim.

Fluid in form and expansive in scope, the lesbian novel has a love letter from writer @rachel_gerry:

Veteran sports exec and @InvictusGames25 CEO @MooreScottmoore joins Duncan Sinclair to discuss leadership, resilience, and the power of service. Plus, the future of AI in sports and the lasting impact of the Games. 🎧 Listen now:

In Bridget Huh’s “Poem,” a speaker attests to the life-affirming power of language:

Despite losing the longest case in Canadian history, the lawyers at Heenan Blaikie certainly did not see Castor Holdings as a defeat. For more than a decade, it had been the goose that laid the golden egg in the Montreal office. Author @ADodek explores:

Writer @David_Moscrop has no interest in running national Canada-Your-Utopia propaganda. But with the US on the precipice of launching an all-out trade war, he’ll fight for Canada nonetheless.

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Live music is such a visceral, immediate experience that it’s hard to think about the lasting effects of being exposed to loud sound. But take it from journalist Angus MacCaull—earplugs are a necessity, and in 2025, they can even be a fashion statement.

“When people hear ‘twenty-one-year-­old with a book deal,’ there’s a lot of assumptions that they make about the book,” @raynefq tells The Walrus associate editor @AriellaGarmaise. “I want to be able to prove people wrong.”