How PEI Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Roundabout | The Walrus (thewalrus.ca)
For traffic planners, roundabouts have been huge game changers. Decades of studies show that the introduction of traffic circles greatly improves flow and reduces collisions overall by slowing vehicles down. Another plus is the reduction in greenhouse gases, from fewer idling cars, and increased safety for pedestrians, who have...
The Murder Trial That Exposed Toronto’s Police Misconduct Crisis | The Walrus (thewalrus.ca)
First, policing practices. Close to midnight on Canada Day, TPS detective-constable Jeffrey Northrup and his partner, then detective-constable Lisa Forbes, were responding to reports of a stabbing in the vicinity. They were in plain clothes. Police officers assigned to work out of uniform do not generally respond to emergency...
Canada’s Universities Are a Pipeline for Chinese Military Technology | The Walrus (thewalrus.ca)
Through naïveté and mindless belief in the universal benefits of academic exchange, some of Canada’s leading universities have contributed to the militarization of the Far East....
How the “Queen of Canada” and Conspiracy Theorists Splintered a Small Town | The Walrus (thewalrus.ca)
Few people drive into Richmound, Saskatchewan, without purpose. The town, with a population of just over 100, lies around seventy-five kilometres from the Trans-Canada Highway, near the Alberta border. So when a caravan of RVs and motorhomes drove into town one day last September, it caused quite a stir. The vehicles were...
“It’s Like a Cult”: Breaking Free from the Far Right | The Walrus (thewalrus.ca)
Beyond his job as a freelance process server in Toronto, thirty-five-year-old Josh Chernofsky didn’t have much going on in the spring of 2019. But over time, he’d developed a rapport with one of the security guards at the University Avenue courthouses. They’d chat about this and that, often about security work; Chernofsky...
Tim Hortons Is Brewing an Idea of Canada That No Longer Exists. (thewalrus.ca)
Cuts Push National Film Board of Canada to the Brink (thewalrus.ca)
Pierre Poilievre Wants a Carbon Tax Election | The Walrus (thewalrus.ca)
REMEMBER BREXIT? That time a Conservative Party directed widespread voter frustration at a single easy scapegoat, smothered the public with misinformation, and were rewarded with their biggest electoral victory in decades? Something similar is happening today in Canada....
Games | The Walrus (thewalrus.ca)
The Walrus is a Canadian magazine, Some users had been complaining about their crossword being too US focused, so the Walrus changed it up. Let’s support Canadian publishers!
Justin Trudeau’s Last Stand | The Walrus (thewalrus.ca)
Seven Hard Truths about the Climate Crisis | The Walrus (thewalrus.ca)
Why Poilievre Will Win | The Walrus (thewalrus.ca)
No mention of the NDP. If only that was the “something different” people were willing to try.