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The near-total eradication of millions of buffalo wasn’t accidental. As early conservationist William Temple Hornaday noted in 1889, the annihilation was part of a federal strategy to force Indigenous nations onto reservations. https://thewalrus.ca/wild-buffalo-make-a-comeback/

“He’s gone from multiculti leftist sovereigntist who wanted to reinvigorate the movement by recruiting immigrants to what we have before us: a right-wing ethno-nationalist who now scapegoats those very immigrants.” https://thewalrus.ca/how-st-pierre-plamondon-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-blame-immigrants/

Recent polling shows only 18 percent of Albertans support actual separation. So why is Premier Danielle Smith putting the province’s future in Confederation on the ballot?

Writer Patrick Lennox investigates: https://thewalrus.ca/alberta-separatism-is-built-on-a-big-lie/

Parti Québécois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon once pledged to be the antidote to the PQ’s xenophobia. Today, writes Martin Patriquian, he’s an “ideologically rudderless ambitionist” leading a hardline nationalist movement. https://thewalrus.ca/how-st-pierre-plamondon-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-blame-immigrants/

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In 2023, Charles Gillen collected over $138,000 from sixteen elderly victims in just weeks, before getting caught on a flight out of Newfoundland. But the courts revealed he was just one cog in a much larger assembly line of deception. https://thewalrus.ca/wild-buffalo-make-a-comeback/

Over the ten years, Premier Smith claims Alberta faced a hostile federal government, oil and gas production doubled, and Ottawa poured tens of billions into energy infrastructure. The tolerance of her big lie is almost as remarkable as the lie itself. https://thewalrus.ca/alberta-separatism-is-built-on-a-big-lie/

Michael Hart, a former senior foreign affairs official, once said that “Canadians have made a cult” out of wanting to be “anything but what we are, a nation of the Americas.” But European ties have shaped Canada’s place in the world for centuries. https://thewalrus.ca/bullied-by-the-us-canada-has-a-history-of-reaching-out-to-europe/

Before European settlement, buffalo migrations blotted out horizons and raised clouds of dust like weather systems. Today, they’re mostly confined to zoos and small enclosures.

Writer Neil Griffin explores the eradication of the North American buffalo: https://thewalrus.ca/wild-buffalo-make-a-comeback/

A room of cheering investors feels like Dragon’s Den, but handshakes do not put shovels in the dirt. For Gregory Jack of Ipsos Canada, Canada’s economic legacy rests in the trenches of patient consultation, public trust, and the slow grind of building. https://thewalrus.ca/carneys-investment-summit-is-over/