The Walrus

• Who Gets to Be Mentally Ill? - Today, people talk about seeing a therapist like they’re going to the dentist. But our compassion around mental health still excludes the people who need it most by K. J. Aiello

1. Clearing Out: BC’s Logging Industry Sets Its Sights on the US by Caitlin Stall-Paquet
2. How the UK Is Winning the Race against Climate Change by Anne Shibata Casselman
3. Cops on Substack: How Police Are Using PR to Combat Criticism by Julia-Simone Rutgers
4. The Ruthless Math of Political Campaigns: Is Big Data Bad for Democracy? by Stephen Maher
5. What Canada’s Largest Art Heist Reveals about the Art World’s Shady Side by Simon Lewsen

• Autofiction - Have I always been in the world? / No, I’ve been autumn in the middle of August. by Billy-Ray Belcourt

• A New Wave of Ciders Is Bringing a Refreshing Change to Cocktail Hour - Tariq Ahmed founded Revel Cider in 2014—now he spends his days brewing batches of traditional and not-so-traditional ciders by Harley Rustad

• Why the Future Is Analog - During the pandemic, our digital lives hollowed us out. Getting back in touch with reality could make us whole again by David Sax

• Rising Food Prices: Could a Grocer Code of Conduct Help? - The clock is ticking as retailers and suppliers hammer out new guidelines to boost transparency by Emily Baron Cadloff

• Gabor Maté Wants to Overhaul Society - The physician and author explains what’s at the root of our deepest problems and how we can begin to heal by Nathan Sing

• The Women’s National Team Taught Canada How to Be a Soccer Country - The men’s team has made it to the FIFA World Cup. But it was the women’s team that helped them get there by Harley Rustad

• Decolonizing Funding to Empower Marginalized Youth by Glynis Ratcliffe

• Mei-Ying, the Heavens Are Crying by Caitlin Mah

• Not Your Average Islands by Glynis Ratcliffe

• The Walrus Talks at Home: Inequality - Millions of people around the world are suffering extreme poverty, yet the rich only get richer. What’s at stake?

• [WATCH] The Walrus Talks Global Hunger Crisis - Global hunger declined steadily for 50 years. This changed around 2015, and today it affects 1 out of 10 people. How do we make sure no one goes hungry?

• [WATCH] The Walrus Talks at Home: Veteran Identities - Going beyond the headlines to understand veterans’ experiences

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Our host Sophie Heringa speaks to Alisha Arora, who is in the process of pioneering an A.I. program that detects suicidal ideation on social media with M.I.T. Arora shares the story of the events that led her to such an idea.

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André Picard, is a health reporter and author who started us off on this audio journey, with his talk on the epidemic of loneliness, so it only felt appropriate to hand the mic back for the final episode of season 3, because this has been quite a time to be a health reporter, and Picard is one of this country’s best.

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In our first-ever documentary “Submerged”, we hear the different ways Indigenous communities bear the brunt of mega hydroelectric projects. What happens when land is flooded, waterways diverted, and dangerous neurotoxins like methylmercury are released?

• Why the Voting Age Needs to be Lowered to Sixteen - The time to address climate change and inequality is running out. Young people deserve to have our say—while we still can by Aymaan Abid

• The Women’s National Team Taught Canada How to Be a Soccer Country - The men’s team has made it to the FIFA World Cup. But it was the women’s team that helped them get there by Harley Rustad

• How the UK Is Winning the Race against Climate Change - While Canada has fumbled every climate promise, the UK has been hitting its emissions targets. What would it take to catch up? by Anne Shibata Casselman