The Walrus

• New Brunswick’s Mystery Disease: Why Did the Province Shut Out Federal Experts? - The provincial government’s closed-door investigation has confused experts, stoked fears, and missed an opportunity to solve a possible new brain disorder by Matthew Halliday

1. Citizen of Nowhere: The Complicated Limbo of Deepan Budlakoti by Adnan Khan
2. Design for Survival: How to Build a Better Trauma Bay by Lauren McGill
3. The Great Myth of Alberta Conservatism by Jen Gerson
4. Binge on Three Quick Stories by Douglas Coupland by Douglas Coupland
5. The Cactus That Came Back from the Dead by Amir Aziz

• The Dark Side of the RCMP - The mystique that has helped cement the RCMP as a national symbol is also what renders it particularly, stubbornly difficult to reform by Jane Gerster

• The Ugly History of Environmental Fears and Population Controls - It’s time to focus less on people’s reproductive habits and more on overconsumption by Arno Kopecky

• For the Love of Peat: Our Best Defence against a Changing Climate - Canada holds between a quarter and a third of the world’s peatlands. It’s time we took better care of them by Edward Struzik

• What Does the Bible Actually Say about Abortion? - Many conservative Christians use scripture to justify their positions but ignore Jesus’s teachings on humanity and equality by Michael Coren

• Binge on Three Quick Stories by Douglas Coupland - New fiction on pandemic isolation, bored border guards, and getting grandkids by Douglas Coupland

• The Big One: Getting Ready for North America’s Next Major Quake - We know we need to prepare for natural disasters. So why do we shrug off the threat? by Gregor Craigie

• Standing on Guard for Canada by Tina Anson Mine

• Listening to Learn by Glynis Ratclife

• Redefining Artistic Ability by Aaron Broverman

• The Walrus Talks at Home: CanCon Online - Canadian content and the new online creator economy

• The Walrus Talks at Home: Our Digital Lives - How has the pandemic changed the way we engage with media?

• The Walrus Leadership Forum on Life Sciences - What’s next for Canada’s life science strategy?

Canada has a lot of work to do to improve relationships with Indigenous communities. But how will we get there as a country? According to Roberta Jamieson, the solution goes beyond charity. It requires philanthropy based on Indigenous reciprocity.

Katharine Hayhoe’s new book, Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World, is a practical and compassionate guide for talking about climate change across differences.

It’s being called the “cyber pandemic.” With a rapid increase in online activity, cybersecurity has become more important than ever. How have fraud practices evolved?

• The Manly Makeover of a Conservative Leader - Is Erin O’Toole trying to beat Justin Trudeau at his own image game? by Scott Reid

• Why William Gibson Is a Literary Genius - Forty years after his breakout story, “Johnny Mnemonic,” the father of cyberpunk remains one of the best writers around by Jason Guriel

• The Cactus That Came Back from the Dead - When a plant barely exists in the natural world but lives on your windowsill, is it really endangered? by Amir Aziz