First Nations Are Rethinking Education in the Yukon. And It’s Working - The radical new approach includes year-round classes—with breaks for hunting and fishing
My Guilty Pleasure: Wasting Time with Lists - They are little anarchic reminders to love what is incomplete
The “Inhuman” Court Case That Helped Sink a Major Law Firm - The twenty-year legal saga involved 18,000 exhibits, 100,000 pages of expert reports, and a judge who needed an emergency bypass surgery
Trump’s Trade War Turned Me into a Flag-Waving Nationalist - Canada remains deeply flawed, but I will stand up for it and for our right to decide our own future
Sheung-King is the author of the novel You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked, which was a finalist for the 2021 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction and the 2021 Amazon Canada First Novel Award. His most recent book is the novel Batshit Seven, published by Penguin Canada in 2024. In this episode, Sheung-King and Nathan talk about Sheung-King’s state of mind the morning after winning the Atwood Gibson prize, about the best advice he got on how to solve an issue he was having with his first novel, and about living in both Canada and China and always feeling like a returnee no matter which country he is in.
In episode two, Timothy Taylor uncovers his mother’s struggle to hide her Jewish heritage after his grandfather fled Nazi Germany in 1940. Through her childhood writings and expert insights, he learns how she concealed her identity during the war—and the devastating fallout when her secret was exposed.
Building and maintaining sexual and body confidence as we age is essential for living healthier, happier lives. The intensity of the changes brought on by menopausal symptoms can make this especially challenging, but reconnecting to pleasure offers one path to empowerment. Luna Matatas is a sex and pleasure educator. This special episode of The Conversation Piece features content from her presentation at The Walrus Talks Menopause, supported by Shoppers Foundation for Women’s Health.
Trump’s Trade War Turned Me into a Flag-Waving Nationalist - Canada remains deeply flawed, but I will stand up for it and for our right to decide our own future
My Guilty Pleasure: Wasting Time with Lists - They are little anarchic reminders to love what is incomplete