Katie Underwood | The Walrus

Hooked-up Culture

March 10, 2022March 10, 2022 - by Katie Underwood

Edged out of the city by ever-inflating housing prices—and freed up by flexible working parameters, courtesy of COVID-19—Canadian millennials might finally have a shot at financial stability. If the Wi-Fi’s good, that is.

Illustration of several climate change scenarios including forest fires, drought and flooding.

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Who Will Inherit the Earth?

November 30, 2021February 5, 2022 - by Katie Underwood

A lesser-discussed casualty of the climate crisis are children’s rights—particularly for those who are already marginalized.

Several photos in a collage featuring golf.

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Game On

November 26, 2021February 25, 2022 - by Katie Underwood

How the Shaw Charity Classic became Canada’s community-fundraising platform to beat—and in well under a decade.

An illustration of a map of Canada with five bubbles where people are using screen devices and are connected to the internet in different ways.

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The Internet Works—and It’s No Accident

September 21, 2021February 25, 2022 - by Katie Underwood

The pandemic has revealed the incredible value–and non-negotiable costs–of keeping Canadians connected. Both are expected to increase in the future.

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Utopia, or Something Like It

September 10, 2021 - by Katie Underwood

The six finalists of this year’s Amazon First Novel Award’s Youth Short Story category dream up their best possible futures, despite some very real fears

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‘We’re still here’

July 2, 2021June 22, 2021 - by Katie Underwood

Michelle Good’s devastating debut — which features interwoven testaments of the trauma incurred by residential school survivors — is the book Canada needs now