Why We Need Community Now More than Ever - Isolation might be as unhealthy as smoking. Why aren’t we taking connection more seriously?
How Quebec Fell in Love with Documentary Theatre - Would you watch a play about hydro electricity? How about the dairy industry?
- Growing Up Trans - When do children know their true gender?
- Will New Tech End the Need for Human Pregnancy? - We are five to ten years from a partial artificial womb for humans, according to estimates
- Letters to the Editor: December 2023 - On artifacts, CanCon, and chemicals
- What Does “Defence” Really Mean? - The United Nations prohibits the use of force except in the case of self-defence—but that can too easily be moulded into a euphemism for retaliation, revenge, and punishment
Do you know a teen who dreams of being a writer?
The 2024 Amazon Canada First Novel Award is currently seeking submissions for the Youth Short Story category. The prize is $5,000. The deadline to submit is February 4, 2024.
Inside the Jan/Feb issue of The Walrus
➔ How Québec fell in love with documentary theatre
➔ Israel–Palestine: Canada must lead where it can
➔ Why Sunrise Records is still spinning
➔ Why women hate the pill
➔ The challenges of multigenerational living
In 2023, more than 15 million hectares of forest burned in fire in Canada. The world has become combustible in scary ways. Climate change accounts for many of the new and novel ways that humans are confronting fire. Author and journalist John Vaillant talks about his recent book “Fire Weather”, oil and the role it plays in the very different fires of today, changes in the atmosphere, Indigenous fire traditions that serve as really effective solutions and how we can each be “good husbands and wives of the earth.”
What is intelligence? Does it require ethical research, group think, or just a well-programmed code? Today, intelligence has an added layer of data and computing power, and AI, a still-emerging technology, poses both opportunities and risks. Toronto Star tech journalist, Navneet Alang, talks about AI’s narrative of progress, its limits, and the need for humans—not just technology—to change in this bonus episode, originally featured on AI For Social Good, a new podcast, presented by Google.
How can AI transform your organization? And where do you even begin? Craig Alleva is the director of customer engineering for Google Cloud in Canada. He has experienced first-hand the unprecedented shift that’s underway thanks to generative AI, and has unique insight into how it will change the way businesses operate and engage with their consumers. Here, he talks about the impact of AI on Canadian organizations and how they’re applying it today.
- The Great Canadian Identity Crisis - Zed or Zee? Our democracy could depend on the answer
- How Quebec Fell in Love with Documentary Theatre - Would you watch a play about hydro electricity? How about the dairy industry?
- How Much Further Can Mining Go? - Unless business as usual can change, companies will venture into ever deeper, darker, and riskier places—with potentially catastrophic consequences
- Will New Tech End the Need for Human Pregnancy? - We are five to ten years from a partial artificial womb for humans, according to estimates
- Sonnet - Things detached from names can be seen, witnessed, / but naming things sates the hunger God’s absence leaves
- Care and Feeding of the Amish - They had snuck from their tents this fine morning, before the spring dew dried on the grass, and come back with their prize
