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Wishing you and yours a season of thoughtful conversation and lasting connection. |
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This Week's Round-Up: December 22, 2025 |
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Polls show half the country wants him gone, even as Conservative voters overwhelmingly want him to stay
BY PHILIPPE J. FOURNIER
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Half of respondents (49 percent) want Poilievre gone, while only 32 percent want him to stay. East of the Manitoba–Ontario border and in BC, majorities would prefer the Conservatives to replace their leader.
But leadership reviews are not decided by the general electorate. They are decided by members: activists and volunteers who tend to be far more ideologically aligned with the leader than the public at large. The gap between Poilievre’s internal support and his public image has been a defining feature of his leadership. |
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A MESSAGE FROM THE WALRUS LAB IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA |
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The Beaver’s Legacy: Shaping Land, Water, and History |
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Fifty years ago, the beaver became an official national symbol of Canada, but its impact on the land began long before it was formally recognized. This episode explores how the beaver shaped waterways, drove the fur trade, and continues to act as a powerful ecosystem engineer today, with insights from wildlife ecologist Dr. Glynnis Hood and Jan Kingshott of Aspen Valley Wildlife Sanctuary on why this enduring animal remains one of the country’s most influential symbols. |
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In this episode of What Happened Next, host Nathan Whitlock is joined by Rachel Reid, author of the Game Changers hockey romance series that includes Heated Rivalry (the TV adaptation of which has become a massive hit since its November premiere). Her most recent novel is the standalone romance The Shots You Take, published earlier this year by Harlequin.
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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 Intelligence Agency agents (both named and anonymous) who abetted in the murder of Patrice Lumumba, former prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 1961. Or the Canadian assets who have played roles in right-wing coups in countries like Guatemala, Bolivia, and Iran. Wark seems content to perpetuate the fantasy that spycraft is, as Rudyard Kipling’s spy novel Kim once put it, a “great game.” If it is a game, it is only because it’s played with other people’s lives and other nations’ democratically elected governments. Perhaps we’ll need a Canadian Henry Kissinger next.
Tom Thor Buchanan
Toronto, ON
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You can make misinformation take a holiday |
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You’re wrapping up your year. But the facts? They’re working overtime.
After ten years in TV news, I know what verified journalism costs. Now at The Walrus, I see what reader donations can do. And this year, they did a lot.
If you’ve supported us this year, thank you.
Before we all (finally) rest at the end of the year, will you help ensure we come back strong in 2026?
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— Camille Dundas
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