July/August 2007 | The Walrus

July/August 2007 / Poetry

Big Paw

July 12, 2007September 6, 2018 - by Priscila Uppal

The cat’s paw keeps getting bigger. Soon we will have to give it a name. At the vet, the young receptionists all laugh. Tell us it’s perfectly natural though they …

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First Person / July/August 2007

Cowboy Camp

July 12, 2007July 6, 2017 - by Guy Vanderhaeghe

Novelist Guy Vanderhaeghe saddles up

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July/August 2007 / World

“I am strong in my basically”

July 12, 2007July 6, 2017 - by Jon Turk

A bike ride through the Chinese psyche

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Arts & Culture / July/August 2007

Sufi Gourmet

July 12, 2007August 23, 2017 - by Marcello Di Cintio

Turkey’s most respected food writer unites cuisine and poetry

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Feature / July/August 2007

3D Vision

July 12, 2007July 6, 2017 - by Taylor Owen

Can Canada reconcile its defence, diplomacy, and development objectives in Afghanistan?

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July/August 2007 / Poetry

The Mall

July 12, 2007July 6, 2017 - by Evelyn Lau

Today I choose it over the ocean. Over the trees, their fall leaves a flock of orange parrots perched on branches. Over the chandelier of sunlight broken on blue waves, …

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July/August 2007 / Technology

Generation WWW

July 12, 2007July 6, 2017 - by Ken Alexander

The new world order, as described in dispatches from the culture front, reveals itself as follows: so long as it is delivered in digestible chunks, is salacious, gossipy, and supported …

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Photograph by Stacy Arezou Mehrfar

Feature / July/August 2007

Charisma

July 12, 2007September 17, 2018 - by Jeff Ryan

Do we want our political leaders to be sexy and playful, or are we content with being bored?

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McKesson Presents The Walrus Talks The Future of Consumerism (Toronto) @ Artscape Daniels Launchpad

Sep 18 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

	Presents The Walrus Talks The Future of Consumerism
	Exploring trends and innovations in health care, technology, and more
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Featuring:
Onur Bodur, professor of marketing, Concordia University
Zayna Khayat, futurist, SE Health
Rebecca McKillican, CEO, Well.ca
Craig Patterson, editor-in-chief, Retail Insider

And more!

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CIFAR Presents The Walrus Talks Boundaries (National Capital Region, Gatineau) @ Canadian Museum of History

Sep 23 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

	Presents The Walrus Talks Boundaries
	How divisions shape our lives, what lies between borders, and what membership means now
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Keith Banting, Stauffer Dunning Fellow and Professor Emeritus, Queen’s University

Samra Habib, writer, photographer, and activist

Adrian Owen, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Imaging, University of Western Ontario, and Koerner Fellow and Co-Director, Azrieli Program in Brain, Mind & Consciousness, CIFAR

Paige Raibmon, Professor, Department of History, University of British Columbia

Prerna Singh, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies, Brown University

Mary Soderstrom, writer

And more!

CIFAR is a Canadian-based, global charitable organization that convenes extraordinary minds to address science and humanity’s most important questions.

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	Présente The Walrus Talks — frontières
	Comment les divisions définissent-elles notre vie? Qu’est-ce qui se trouve entre les limites? Que signifie maintenant l’appartenance à un groupe?
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Le CIFAR est une organisation sans but lucratif basée au Canada qui rassemble de brillants cerveaux pour trouver réponse aux plus grandes questions de la science et de l’humanité.

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Suncor Presents The Walrus Talks Energy (Montreal) @ Centre Phi

Sep 25 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

	Presents The Walrus Talks Energy
	Building a Canadian approach to energy transition
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Featuring:
Shawn McCarthy, journalist
Eryn Stewart, project director, Lumos Energy
Brendan Haley, policy director, Efficiency Canada
Aisha Bukhari, senior manager, Advanced Energy Centre, MaRS Discovery District
Johanne Gélinas, president and CEO, Transition Énergétique Québec
Christopher Ragan, academic, economist, and chair of Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission
Alison Cretney, managing director, Energy Futures Lab

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French simultaneous translation services will be provided.
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TD Bank Group Presents The Walrus Talks Inclusion (Waterloo) @ Waterloo Delta Hotel

Oct 23 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

	Presents The Walrus Talks Inclusion
	How design, technology, education and more can remove barriers for people with disabilities
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