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We Let Work Define Us. Why Not Play?

April 21, 2017April 15, 2020 - by Katrina Onstad

Hobbies aren’t just fulfilling—they keep us healthy, mindful, and sane

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Books

The Benefits of Solitude

April 19, 2017April 27, 2020 - by Michael Harris

Our society rewards social behaviour while ignoring the positive effects of time spent alone

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Illustration by Kagan McLeod
Books / November 2013

Happy Medium Is the Message

October 30, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Jeet Heer

In Smarter Than You Think, Clive Thompson finds the middle ground between digital utopians and Luddite naysayers

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November 2011 / Society

Modern Inconveniences

November 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by Adele Weder

A design writer and self-confessed slob seeks transformation in a year of living minimally

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Cover of the Mar/Apr issue of The Walrus magazine. Mar/Apr 2021

Double issue: declaring your data at the border, the Group of Seven 100 years later, Indigenous-led camp in Edmonton, death in the age of Facebook, and quitting America for good.

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