Unpublished Newswire
The Supreme Court of Canada is set to release its decision on whether to hear a B.C. ostrich farm's final appeal to save its flock.
November 6, 2025 - 06:49 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
Canada’s premiers are too quick to use the notwithstanding clause for “marginal reasons” and have lost sight of its original purpose, former prime minister Jean Chrétien said Wednesday evening. Chrétien, who as justice minister negotiated the clause’s inclusion in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1981, said provinces are using it “for anything” 40 years later.
November 6, 2025 - 06:45 | Cassidy McMackon | The Globe and Mail
The Supreme Court of Canada is set to announce whether it will hear appeals in a challenge of Saskatchewan's school pronoun law.
November 6, 2025 - 06:33 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
In 1989, Toronto-based activist artists Carole Condé + Karl Beveridge created a photographic work that addressed free trade between Canada and the United States. Titled Free Expression, it renders free trade as a visible force pulsating through the world in the form of a signal from a radio tower perched atop the planet. In the foreground, a man and a woman interrupted sit at a desk piled with Canadian publications. The perspective is skewed to provide an aerial view of their desk, revealing a slew of alternative literary magazines.
The scene is set for confrontation. While the older man...
November 6, 2025 - 06:30 | Sarah E. K. Smith | Walrus
There’s nothing for us in this country, my Iraqi
roommate says the second morning
after my arrival in Kelowna, as he breaks
bread into small chunks and dunks them
in cold milk. Except for daily drudgery at $15.65.
He hands me a bowl of grapes and says:
Aren’t there good schools in India? I nod;
he nods. We agree on things we don’t
fully comprehend. Running his hand over
his thick beard, he proclaims like a prophet—
We are here to clean white people’s shit!
Do you know how to clean? I shrug, my mind
oscillating in a thick fog of longing
and separation, propelled by a desire to escape
or...
November 6, 2025 - 06:29 | Vivek Sharma | Walrus
Toronto, November 8, 2025: The Walrus is excited to welcome Ketsia Beboua as the 2025/26 CIBC Digital Fellow for Emerging Black Journalists, the fourth fellow thanks to this partnership.
A writer and creator driven by a passion for storytelling in all its forms, Beboua brings to The Walrus her curiosity for ideas, voices, and perspectives to journalism, continuing her pursuit of stories that challenge, entertain, and connect audiences.
The fellowship will provide Beboua hands-on training and mentorship to conceptualize, produce, and share storytelling across a variety of digital...
November 6, 2025 - 06:28 | The Walrus Staff | Walrus
