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A Note from the Board

“My mother gave me the first edition of The Walrus as a Christmas present, so I’ve been a subscriber from day one. It’s the quality of long-form journalism and the depth of intelligent discourse that keeps me coming back year after year.”

— Jean Teillet, Author, Artist, Public Speaker and Former Lawyer, and Member of The Walrus Board of Directors.

“I have enjoyed being on the board for the last nine years. There has always been a high level of energy and morale among the management and the board, and I’m very proud to have been a part of it because The Walrus helps strengthen our democracy, and that is part of the collective effort we all must make to keep Canada strong and sovereign.”

— Ira Gluskin, Chief Investment Officer of Irager + Associates Inc and Member of The Walrus Board of Directors.

Breakout Stories

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    The Walrus Games

  2. The Walrus artwork featuring Mark Carney in colour and a blended image of Pierre Poilievre against a red background

    Pierre Poilievre’s Lead Was Supposed to Be Unshakable. It Isn’t

    Philippe J. Fournier

  3. The Walrus photo illustration featuring a fighter jet painted with the Canadian flag

    What Would It Take for Canada to Build Its Own Fighter Jets Again?

    Wesley Wark

  4. The Walrus photo illustration featuring Justin Trudeau against a light brown background, surrounded by dark red and blue elements including a desk, microphone, stand, pair of sneakers, and a mirror disco ball.

    Justin Trudeau Lost The Plot. Now He’s Looking for a New One

    Wendy Kaur

  5. The Walrus original illustration featuring a hand throwing a pair of dice made to look like books against a dark background

    The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem

    Tajja Isen

  • 451articles published
  • 45artists featured in print and online
  • 15poems published
  • 9fellows trained
  • 9.4mmpage views at thewalrus.ca
  • 4.8mmpage views on Apple News
  • 262kfollowers on social media platforms
  • 101knewsletter subscribers
  • 114kpodcast downloads
  • 13khouseholds registered from 72 countries for The Walrus Talks
  • Top five countries reading thewalrus.caCanadaUSAChinaUKSingapore
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Regional Correspondent Bureaus

Supported by The Chawkers Foundation, The Walrus launched three regional bureaus in 2025 and expanded to six provinces in 2026. This is part of a broader effort to deepen our coverage of the most consequential stories unfolding across the country and to strengthen the role of local reporting in our national conversation.

The Walrus works with reporters on the ground across six regions to tell Canada’s local stories. Read the top articles now.

Map of Canada showing the six regional correspondent bureaus

Trina Moyles

Whitehorse, YT

J.R. Patterson

Westlake, MB

Kunal Chaudhary

Toronto, ON

Trevor Corkum

Albany, PEI

Awards

NMAs 2025 — Gold for Issue Grand Prix: If He Wins: How Poilievre Will Change Canada. Carmine Starnino, Editor-in-Chief; Zoya Shepherd, Design DirectorNMAs 2025 — Silver for Columns and Essays: The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age by Thea Lim. Contributors: Carmine Starnino, handling editor; Hannah Ziegler, fact checker; Siddhesh Inamdar, copy editor2025 Indigenous Media Awards — Winner, Best Long Form/Magazine Story: How Workplace Diversity Fails Indigenous Employees by Michelle Cyca2025 The Writers’ Guild of Alberta — Winner, James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction: In the Footsteps of Migrants Who Never Made It by Marcello Di Cintio
NMAs 2025 — Gold for Issue Grand Prix: If He Wins: How Poilievre Will Change Canada. Carmine Starnino, Editor-in-Chief; Zoya Shepherd, Design Director
NMAs 2025 — Silver for Columns and Essays: The Collapse of Self-Worth in the Digital Age by Thea Lim. Contributors: Carmine Starnino, handling editor; Hannah Ziegler, fact checker; Siddhesh Inamdar, copy editor
2025 Indigenous Media Awards — Winner, Best Long Form/Magazine Story: How Workplace Diversity Fails Indigenous Employees by Michelle Cyca
2025 The Writers’ Guild of Alberta — Winner, James H. Gray Award for Short Nonfiction: In the Footsteps of Migrants Who Never Made It by Marcello Di Cintio

The Walrus Financials

The financial life of a mid-sized charity is rarely simple. Funding sources shift, priorities evolve, and the environment we operate in rarely holds still. What carries The Walrus through is the generosity and engagement of a community that believes in what we do.

More than 3,000 donors and sponsors made 2025 possible. Your support is what allows us to maintain a revenue base broad enough to weather uncertainty and to keep our focus where it belongs: on the work. Because of your generosity, we closed the year with a surplus and entered 2026 with the capacity to keep publishing journalism that matters, convening ideas worth having, and serving readers who expect more from their media.

Revenue: $6,325,768 total — 47% earned revenue, 34% fundraising, 19% government funding. Expenses: $6,220,565 total — 33% journalism, 16% administration, 14% sales and content sponsorship, 10% fundraising, 9% events, 8% magazine circulation, 6% sales and marketing, 5% magazine printing.

Art Commissions

Over 45 illustrations and artworks were commissioned by The Walrus in 2025. Here are a few.

Boards and Advisory Committee

Management Team 2026

Executive DirectorJennifer Hollett

Editor-in-ChiefCarmine Starnino

Director of DevelopmentCamille Dundas

Director of Partnerships and SponsorshipsTracie Jones

Director of Audience EngagementBryan Maloney

Marketing DirectorMonita Mohan

Production DirectorMaria Musikka

Digital DirectorChristopher Wang

Director of FinanceDavid Young

Board of Directors,
September 2025 to June 2026

Chair

Åsa Kachan

Vice-Chair

Stephen Atkinson

Suha Jethalal

Jennifer F. Longhurst

Directors

Komal Bhasin

Rob Farina

Sheldon Fernandez

Andrew Giosa

Ira Gluskin

Clèche Kokolo

Claire Lanctôt

Zai Mamdani

Jennifer Ouano

Ray Samuels

Jean Teillet

National Advisory Council

Siri Agrell

Ian Alexander

Zahra Al-Harazi

Shelley Ambrose

Charlie Angelakos

Shari Austin

Maxine Bailey

Bruce Bennett

Helen Burstyn

Jodi Butts

Diane Blake

Miro Cernetig

Shakir Chambers

Cameron Charlebois

Paul Cohen

Heather Conway

Clint Davis

Michael Decter

John Delacourt

Martha Durdin

William Fox

Roger Garland

Emmanuelle Gattuso

John Geiger

Marina Glogovac

Blake Goldring

Elizabeth Gomery

Francesca Grosso

Alyssa Hussein

Dr. Eric Jackman

Tom Jackson

Roberta Jamieson

Donald K. Johnson

Lucille Joseph

Mark Kingwell

Chethan Lakshman

Janelle Lassonde

Gerald Lazare

D’Arcy Levesque

James Little

Louise MacCallum

Hugh MacKinnon

Bruce MacLellan

Roxanne McCaig

Robin McLay

Scott Mullin

Chima Nkemdirim

Karl Percy

Rosemary Phelan

Anna Porter

Julian Porter

Justin Poy

Karen Prentice

Irfhan Rawji

Gretchen Ross

Janice Rubin

Pierre Santoni

Ray Sharma

Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair

Gillian Smith

Helga Stephenson

Mira Sucharov

Anne Sutherland

John Tory Jr.

Aritha van Herk

Educational Review Committee

Chair

Komal Bhasin

Vice-Chair

Mark Migotti

University of Calgary

Jaideep Bains

University of Toronto

Kiran Banerjee

Dalhousie University

Randy Boyagoda

University of Toronto

Lea Caragata

University of British Columbia

Nadine Caron

University of British Columbia

David Cramb

Toronto Metropolitan University

Suzie Dunn

Dalhousie University

Logan MacDonald

University of Waterloo

Fenwick McKelvey

Concordia University

Angela Misri

Toronto Metropolitan University

Tokunbo Ojo

York University

Annette Schultz

University of Manitoba

Zoe Todd

Carleton University

Special thanks to all of our donors.

See the full 2025 donor list here.

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