Why Is Canadian Architecture So Bad? - Buildings from the past fifty years have been largely uninspiring. Why don’t we take good design seriously?
Something Else - your urn was / exactly as you’d wanted
- Editor’s Letter: Speaking to Readers - Journalism defies a well-known business axiom: if you build a great product, the money will follow
- Challenging the Himalayas: Obsession and Danger in the Parvati Valley - Famous online for his daring travels, Justin Alexander brushed off concerns about his final trek
- My Uncle the Witch Hunter: Unearthing the Uncanny Story of John Troyer - I dug into my family history and discovered a tale of supernatural evil, buried treasure, and paranoia
- Textual Healing: The Novel World of Bibliotherapy - How literature is helping people navigate mental health issues
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Inside the Jan/Feb 2022 issue of The Walrus
➔ What Women (Still) Want
➔ When My Wife Developed Alzheimer’s, The Story of Our Marriage Kept Us Connected
➔ The Dirty Work of Cleaning Online Reputations
➔ Textual Healing: The Novel World of Bibliotherapy
➔ My Uncle the Witch Hunter: Unearthing the Uncanny Story of John Troyer
As Canadian children and their parents are once again confronted with the uncertainty of lockdowns and school closures, the mental health of our youngest community members is of concern. How will this affect them in the short-term? In the long-term? And will this contribute to a new intergenerational trauma? And according to Dr. Myrna Lashley, these questions become even more fraught when you add the lens of diversity and Black youth to the equation.
What does life as a content creator look like when the cameras aren’t rolling? And as this economy grows, what supports and resources do Canadian creators need to flourish? This week, our host, Mohit Rajhans, speaks with Dr. Richard Lachman, an associate professor of Digital Media at X University, about the future of the creator economy.
The pandemic pushed many people to do critical services online — like managing personal finances. This episode looks at the uptick of online banking and how both individual Canadians and banks had to rely on strong, secure internet connections to keep money moving and the economy afloat. We speak with Peter Tilton the Senior Vice President of Digital for RBC and Natasha Knox, founder of Alaphia Financial Wellness and a Certified Financial Planner.
- The Ruthless Math of Political Campaigns: Is Big Data Bad for Democracy? - As the fate of elections is increasingly tied to analytics, we could end up with voters nobody will bother trying to persuade
- Why Is Canadian Architecture So Bad? - Buildings from the past fifty years have been largely uninspiring. Why don’t we take good design seriously?
- Textual Healing: The Novel World of Bibliotherapy - How literature is helping people navigate mental health issues
- Something Else - your urn was / exactly as you’d wanted
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