Tom Jokinen | The Walrus

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November/December 2020 / Television

The Boring Brilliance of Hinterland Who’s Who

October 21, 2020October 22, 2020 - by Tom Jokinen

Fifty years later, the iconic one-minute nature docs remain the best television to ever come out of Canada

Strikers overturn a streetcar in Winnipeg, June 21, 1919.

What the Winnipeg General Strike Can Teach Us about Class, Capitalism, and Greed

April 29, 2019July 2, 2020 - by Tom Jokinen

In 1919, 35,000 workers ground Winnipeg to a halt. We may never again see another strike like it

Photograph courtesy of the Canadian Press

Cover Story / September 2017

Is the Sun Rising or Setting on the CBC?

August 21, 2017November 11, 2019 - by Tom Jokinen

Our public broadcaster charts its course in a world of Snapchat, clickbait, and teenage YouTube stars

Sault Ste. Marie, from Fantastic Cities (2015)

July/August 2017 / Visual Art

The Line King

June 15, 2017April 5, 2020 - by Tom Jokinen

Steve McDonald’s colouring books have conquered the world

Feature / October 2016

Canada’s Bull Semen Boom

September 22, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Tom Jokinen

We export more than $100 million worth of “white gold” per year—much of it from a handful of designer superstuds

October 2015 / Technology

Number Cruncher

September 17, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Tom Jokinen

Coffee and quantum physics with the Liberals’ digital savant

April 2013 / Music

All Together Now!

April 3, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Tom Jokinen

Community choirs and the popularity of amateur culture

October 2012 / Politics

What Would Tommy Douglas Think?

September 11, 2012July 22, 2020 - by Tom Jokinen

New Democrats today promise to make your life better without subscribing to anything as old-fashioned as a system of beliefs. Inside the ranks of the party unfaithful

December 2011 / Feature

Adventures of a Supernumerary

December 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by Tom Jokinen

My unlikely role in the Canadian Opera Company production of Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos