Unpublished Newswire
I’m currently revisiting Seinfeld with my youngest son. I haven’t watched the sitcom in decades. I am surprised at how genuinely funny it remains and how badly some of the core premises have aged.
Case in point: the non-fat yogurt episode from season five. The entire segment, which aired in 1993, hinges on the idea that this kind of food is a disastrous dietary choice and consuming it will make you “fat” (lots of weight gags throughout). The fat-is-evil theme is taken as a truism. As Jerry exclaims to a neighbour in the final scene (spoiler alert!), the yogurt actually had fat in it! “It...
December 4, 2025 - 09:31 | Timothy Caulfield | Walrus
Power Trip
In “Canada Needs a Foreign Spy Agency,” Wesley Wark cautions us that when we imagine foreign intelligence agents, we shouldn’t picture Jason Bourne or James Bond. I concur, but we need not look so far from home for inspiration for what Wark has in mind. Some of the cruelest, most scientifically useless forms of abuse perpetrated under MKUltra occurred on Canadian soil. At McGill University, agents drugged civilians with hallucinogenic and narcotic drugs in the pursuit of novel forms of torture and interrogation. Maybe, instead, we should take as our example the Central...
December 4, 2025 - 09:30 | Readers | Walrus
WATCH BELOW: On the latest episode of Sens 1-on-1 with Bruce Garrioch, Bruce speaks with former Ottawa Senators executive and long-time NHL commentator, Pierre McGuire about his impressions of the Senators, Jake Sanderson’s case for a Norris Trophy nomination, the evolution of Tim Stutzle’s game, Linus Ullmark, and more. Read More
December 4, 2025 - 09:26 | Bruce Garrioch | Ottawa Citizen
A British Columbia Liberal MP said Prime Minister Mark Carney "will have to answer" questions on why he reversed a budget commitment on tax credits in Alberta energy deal.
December 4, 2025 - 09:26 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
Expect food to take up a bigger share of household budgets next year.The latest Food Price Report produced by several Canadian universities is projecting an average family of four will pay an estimated $994.63 more for food in 2026 than this year because of issues like trade and climate change.
December 4, 2025 - 09:03 | Ian Bickis | The Globe and Mail
Toronto, December 4, 2025: The Walrus has acquired Lead Podcasting to expand its audio storytelling and The Walrus Podcasts.
“We’re thrilled to have Lead Podcasting join The Walrus as part of our suite of podcasts and innovative revenue model,” said Jennifer Hollett, executive director of The Walrus. “The Walrus Lab produces custom content with clients, in a range of formats: from print to events to podcasts. Lead shares our journalistic approach to podcasting. We only grow from here.”
The Walrus is a Canadian leader in fact-based journalism,...
December 4, 2025 - 09:00 | The Walrus Staff | Walrus
