- Is It Populism If the Democrats Are Doing It? - Kamala Harris is stealing from Trump’s playbook and betting big on the working class
- Who Knew What about Alice Munro? - An interview with editor Deborah Dundas on breaking the story
- My Guilty Pleasure: I Enjoy Southern Gospel Because It Hardly Makes Me Feel at All - As a consequence of growing up Black in a white world, I am comfortable feeling alienated from my own emotions
- Montreal Kicked Cars to the Curb and Thrived - The city’s pedestrian revolution should set a new standard across North America
- Self-Diagnosis Is Making Memoir Too Predictable - The joy of reading memoir is to watch another mind puzzle through its inner mechanics. If the outcome is already decided, why bother?
- Breaking: The Meeting House Closes Its Doors - The megachurch’s shuttering comes after a series of award-winning investigations by The Walrus into sexual abuse allegations and convictions
Carl Wilson is the music critic at Slate and the author of Let’s Talk about Love: A Journey to the End of Taste, which he himself describes as being about “aesthetic conflict, class, and Céline Dion.” In this episode, Carl talks to Nathan about Céline’s recent performance at the Paris Olympics, about the unlikely popular and academic success of Let’s Talk about Love, and about the two book-length works he wants to complete—one a biography of the beloved singer-songwriter David Berman, the other a treatise on the legitimacy of crying as a critical response to great art.
Stephen Poloz is the former Governor of the Bank Canada and currently a Special Advisor for Osler. Author of The Next Age of Uncertainty: How the World Can Adapt to a Riskier Future, Stephen speaks with host Duncan Sinclair about the common tectonic tensions that are embedded in our everyday lives: an aging workforce, mounting debt, rising income inequality, technological advances and climate change. He has some new advice for getting through these challenging times.
487 trails, part of the Trans Canada Trail, can tell an important story about Canada, its history and its people. Dianne Whelan is a filmmaker, photographer, author, and public speaker. This special episode of The Conversation Piece features content from her presentation at Manulife presents The Walrus Talks Nature, supported by Trans Canada Trail.
- Is It Populism If the Democrats Are Doing It? - Kamala Harris is stealing from Trump’s playbook and betting big on the working class
- My Guilty Pleasure: I Enjoy Southern Gospel Because It Hardly Makes Me Feel at All - As a consequence of growing up Black in a white world, I am comfortable feeling alienated from my own emotions
- How We Treat Bears in Cities Is Trash - Too many of them are becoming casualties in the battle of the bins
- The Opioid Crisis Is Surging. We’re Still Ignoring Experts - The perils of prioritizing politics over public health