The Walrus

• COVID-19 Upended the Labour Market. Why Haven’t Workers’ Lives Improved? - The pandemic offered us a chance to restructure society, and we’re squandering it by Lucy Uprichard

1. Ask a Supply Chain Expert: Are Product Shortages Our New Normal? by Harish Krishnan
2. COVID-19 Vaccines for Kids and the Struggle of Pandemic Decision Making by Natalie Stechyson
3. WATCH: The Walrus Leadership Forum on Life Sciences by The Walrus Staff
4. Our Culture is at a Tipping Point by Devyani Saltzman
5. The Walrus Nominated for Canadian Online Publishing Awards by The Walrus Staff

• Canadian Authors Pick Their Favourite Books of 2021 - From legal dramas to hockey poems, some of our leading contemporary writers discuss their top reads by The Walrus Staff

• Take Two Shrooms and Call Me in the Morning: The Medical Promise of Magic Mushrooms - Psilocybin can treat depression, alcoholism, PTSD, and even cluster headaches. Why is it still illegal? by Brad Badelt

• The Mission - Saint Mary’s River coldly wrought the edge of the Mission to the north, blocking the Mission’s expansion toward the reserve’s hoodoos by Troy Sebastian / Nupqu ʔa·kǂ am̓

• My Day in Zoom Court: Virtual Trials Are a Better Option for Sexual Assault Survivors - Tradition dictates that perpetrators and victims must meet in court. COVID-19 showed that wasn’t necessary by Sophia Watson (pseudonym)

• The Shadow Land: Indigenous Memoirs and the Question of “Trauma Porn” - The term has emerged as an insidious charge. How should we approach painful stories? by Cody Caetano

• The Pigeon Puzzle: How Do They Figure Out Their Impossibly Long Routes Home? - You might consider them flying rats, but their odysseys stump scientists by Trevor Popoff

• More than a new year—it’s a new world by Elana Rosenfeld

• Game On by Katie Underwood

• Who Will Inherit the Earth? by Katie Underwood

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

• WATCH: The Walrus Talks at Home: Youth Mental Health - How can Canada better support young people’s mental health in a period of incredible upheaval?

• WATCH: The Walrus Talks at Home: Ingenuity - Youth STEAM leaders on imagination and experimentation

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According to Devyani Saltzman, who has led programming at the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Banff Centre, while we are getting better at promoting the individual people, we don’t do enough to create a safe space for true systemic change for diversity and representation in our culture.

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In this episode, we look at how far science has come in breeding drought-resistant crops to help farmers adapt to both floods and water scarcity, and at where it’s headed as we try to feed an ever-expanding human population.

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Hear from two mayors about the necessity of the internet, the impact of the pandemic, collaborations that have emerged and the challenges they’re facing in ensuring their citizens have access to fast speeds.

• Citizen of Nowhere: The Complicated Limbo of Deepan Budlakoti - Canadian one day, stateless the next. Who is responsible for someone no country wants to claim? by Adnan Khan

• Canadian Authors Pick Their Favourite Books of 2021 - From legal dramas to hockey poems, some of our leading contemporary writers discuss their top reads by The Walrus Staff

• 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