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Volunteerism’s Impact on Health, Happiness, and Longevity

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Finding Purpose Through Volunteering

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Volunteer Programs Must Respect the Needs of Volunteers

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The Walrus Talks Reimagining Volunteerism

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We Live Longer, Healthier Lives Because of Public Health Care

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We Need the Arts to Build a Vision for the Future

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The Walrus Talks Canada’s Creative Power

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New Immigrant Access to Nature is Vital

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Narratives of Progress Should Be Viewed With Suspicion

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Sustainable Finance and Canada’s Climate Commitments

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Green Spaces are Living Urban Infrastructure

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Housing Needs Return on Human Investment

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How are Banks Involved in Economic Reconciliation?

Trevor Gardner

We Will Not Achieve Reconciliation Without Vibrant Indigenous Economies

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First Nations are on the Front Line of Energy Projects and Their Impacts

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Alexandra McCann

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Paul Taylor

We must do better to protect migrant workers

Amanda Aziz

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Samir Khan

Building employment opportunities for Black youth

Agapi Gessesse

The Walrus Talks Advancing Work

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Jessica Lynn Wiebe

Who do we recognize as veterans?

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Michelle Douglas

The Walrus Talks at Home: Veteran Identities

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Technology is not neutral

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The Walrus Talks at Home: Digital Citizenship

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We Need to Share the Wealth

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Food Insecurity in Nunavut

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Pathways to Resilience in Canada’s Food System

Melana Roberts

We’ve Mandated People to Live in Poverty

Neil Hetherington

Help People Live, Not Just Survive

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The Walrus Talks Global Hunger Crisis

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Youth Generativity is the Best Projector of Successful Adulthood

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Microgrants Open Doors to Big Opportunities

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How Legislative Change Supports Charities and Grassroots Work

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The Walrus Talks at Home: Funding Change

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How are we Going to Sustain Ourselves Like a Forest?

Reneltta Arluk

Being an Artist in Canada Requires Privilege

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Lessons in Community Programming and the Power of Art and Hope

Mary Kim

There’s no Greater Danger to Inventive Art than a Monoculture Run by the Few

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There is Power in Pivoting

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The Walrus Talks Reconnecting Arts and Culture

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Risk Society and What We Have in Common

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We Need the Commons

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The 5 Cs and the Care Economy

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Future of the Media

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There’s No Reconciliation Without Truth

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The Walrus Talks What’s Next? Toronto

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The Walrus Talks What’s Next? Ottawa

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Nurses Support a National Prescription Drug System

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Access to Essential Medicine for Rare Diseases

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Many Older Canadians have Inappropriate Medications

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The Walrus Talks at Home: Pharmacare

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How Government and Corporate Policy Can Ensure Accountability

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Climate Action Requires Climate Justice

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Our Climate Superheros May Not Wear Capes, But Instead Crunch Numbers

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First Nations Want Energy Security

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The Walrus Talks Energy at Globe 2022

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Ecological grief and the climate crisis

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How youth are advancing sustainable energy

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Conversations, community, and the climate crisis

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Connecting migrant, labour, and climate justice

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The Walrus Talks at Home: Youth and the Climate Crisis

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What does a post-pandemic recovery for women look like?

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WThe Unique Story of Trust in Canada

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CEO Pay Isn’t Based on Merit, but Power

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I Am The 1%. Tax Me.

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An Era of Economic Violence

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Colonialism Creates Poverty By Design

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Inequality Kills

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The Walrus Talks at Home: Inequality

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The Inequity and Stigma of Mainstream Mental Health

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Youth Mental Health and Disillusionment

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The Emergency Room is a Last Resort

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Racism is Not a Victimless Crime

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The Walrus Talks at Home: Youth Mental Health

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Improving Nuclear Energy to Support our Climate Goals

Zachary Ireland

Advancing Change by Asking Big Questions

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The Importance of Curiosity and Creative Risk Taking

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The Walrus Talks at Home: Ingenuity

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Saara Chaudry

Connectivity, dissent, beliefs and screens

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Trust in our current state

Matthew Johnson

Viewing trends and the pandemic

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The Walrus Talks at Home: Our Digital Lives

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The growing creator economy lacks supports for creators

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How profits and pressure have radically altered digital content production

Tara O’Brady

We need to reassess how we value digital content creators

Dr. Samantha Yammine

Is it sustainable to create online content specifically for a Canadian audience?

Éric Grenier

The Walrus Talks at Home: CanCon Online

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Crip Resilience and Creative Access

Sean Lee

Resilience is Weaponized

Alison Tedford

Resistance is a Way of Being

Dr. Roberta K. Timothy

Against Resilience

Anne Spice

The Walrus Talks at Home: Reimagining Resilience

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Aiming Higher for Multi-platform Journalism

Brian Myles

Creating Context Rich Journalism Funded by Readers

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Why Journalism Should be a Public Service

Anita Li

The Walrus Talks at Home: News & Platforms

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Preparing Indigenous youth for a digital future

Oscar Baker III, Mike DeGagné, Martha Hall Findlay, Madeleine Redfern, John Stackhouse

Living Labs and Frame of Mind

Chantal Rossingol

Urban Farming, Circular Packaging, Building Community

Ran Goel

Is a Circular Economy Liveable for Everyone?

Anna-Kay Russell

Fashion’s Colonial Roots Impact its Sustainable Future

Sophia Yang

The Walrus Talks at Home: The Next Gen on the Circular Economy

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Digital Media Literacy: Influence and Empathy

Kara Brisson-Boivin

Digital Technologies and Democracy

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The Limits of Regulating Online Expression

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Daily Misinformation is Causing Real Harm

Timothy Caulfield

The Walrus Talks at Home: The Future of Speech Online

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From UN Development Goals to Resilient Cities

Vinita Srivastava

Returning to Your Roots, Survival, and Art

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The Gospel of Resilience and Ubuntu: I Am Because We Are

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Excellence in Sport: The Sounds of Resilience

Jeff Adams

The Walrus Talks at Home: Resilience

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The Power of Petitioning for Change Online

Breanna Xavier-Carter

Editing the Online Narratives of Women in STEM

Sandra Corbeil

Human Rights Activism and the Emergence of New Tech

Ronald Niezen

Reclaiming Our Voices – Indigenous Storytelling on Social Media

Sarain Fox

The Walrus Talks at Home: Voices Online

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Candis Callison, Arvin Joaquin, Tara Weber, Reshmi Nair, and Nana aba Duncan

Focusing on our communities to build sustainable wealth

Thomas Benjoe

Be intentional, fearless, and a bridge for opportunity

Emily Mills

ESG is a strategic pillar of everything we do

Amal Benaissa

Building a life sciences strategy for Canada

Pamela Fralick, Alika Lafontaine, Reg Joseph, Anie Perreault, and André Picard

Loneliness isn’t benign, it hurts our health

Wency Leung

Deep brain stimulation for treatment resistant depression

Dr. Andres Lozano

Culturally informed support is critical

Sope Owoaje

We can’t control the ocean, but we can become stronger swimmers

Mark Henick

The Walrus Talks at Home: Mental Health

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Treating anxiety disorders when the threats are real

Adam Radomsky

How women did leadership differently during the pandemic

Lauren McKeon

Marketplace morality, from masks to veganism

Zeynep Arsel

Can austerity lead us to health care sustainability?

Alika Lafontaine

The Walrus Talks at Home: Living Better

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Building higher trust for Canada’s health and prosperity

Brittany Andrew-Amofah, Lance Chung, Vanessa Eaton, and Bruce MacLellan

We have to honour the contributions all women make

Sheila North

Not an ideal model, but a model that works

Ann Hui

Women perform better when handed a crisis

Sally Armstrong

No recovery without a she-covery, no she-covery without childcare

Armine Yalnizyan

Investing in purpose-built real estate

Jay-Ann Gilfoy

Affordable housing for Indigenous by Indigenous

David Eddy

Housing and health are tightly connected

Andrew Boozary

Tiny homes do not serve the masses

Cristina D’Amico

The Walrus Talks at Home: Housing

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Seeing Injustice And Fighting For Better

Valérie Plante

Why Am I Waiting For Someone Else To Do This?

Sandy Hudson

The Wealthy Elite Thinks They Are Solving The World’s Problems

Anand Giridharadas

I Discovered Change Could Happen Through The Written Word

Waubgeshig Rice

Good Things Come Out of Bad Things

Jann Arden

Artists Can Unlock The Potential Of Empty City Spaces

Ravi Jain

Screens And Stress During COVID-19

Najmeh Khalili-Mahani

COVID-19 Is An Opportunity To Fix Our Food System

Joshna Maharaj

To Live Better In The City, Nature Is Critical

Carly Ziter

The Walrus Talks at Home: Living Better

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Move away from the capitalist understanding of access

Sarah Jama

Festivals and concerts often get forgotten

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Music is about connecting with all people

Gift Tshuma

The inaccessibility of CanLit

Dorothy Ellen Palmer

The Walrus Talks at Home: Inclusion (Part Two)

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Sajel Bellon

Quality of life is not a commodity, but it matters most

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The physical world is a spoon sucker

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The telework picture is not a rosy one

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The Walrus Talks at Home: Inclusion (Part 1)

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Yann LeCun

Building values and ethics into AI

Stephanie Dinkins

The risks of creating artificially intelligent agents

Daniel Dennett

How creativity stays with us for life

Emily Urquhart

The Walrus Talks at Home: Intelligence

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Replacing our take-make-waste economic system

Stephanie Cairns

Without circular procurement sustainability is window dressing

Frances Edmonds

We need buy in from Bay Street to meet climate goals

Rita Trichur

The original green economy is Indigenous

Carol Anne Hilton

The Walrus Talks at Home: Circular Economy

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Exploration is more than planting flags and making footprints

Kate Harris

Exploring the past with curiosity and compassion

Jessica Vandenberghe

Examining the potential for life on the red planet

Jack Mustard

Exploring the dark universe from deep underground

Mark Chen

How do computers understand meaning and language?

Alona Fyshe

Cities for People, Not Just Cars

Brent Toderian

The Economy versus the Environment: A False Debate

Jane Kearns

Illusions of Abundance in an Age of Scarcity

Evan Fraser

Goals, role models and resilience.

Innocent Nzayisenda

Human Trauma, Climate Trauma as One

Sheila Watt-Cloutier

Wherever There Is Water

Rear-Admiral John Newton

Research’s fight to eliminate microplasticss

Lisa Erdle

The Future of Everything

Margaret Atwood

Marine plastic pollution from a surfer’s point of view

Dom Domic

Creating the plastic-free grocery store

Michelle Genttner

The role of Indigenous elders

Doreen Spence

How Consumers Can Contribute to the Growing Indigenous Economy

Tabatha Bull

How to decolonize Indigenous philanthropy

Roberta Jamieson

Fish and Indigenous Law

Zoe Todd

Canada’s Three Founding Nations

Phil Fontaine

Indigenous Resistance in Newfoundland & Labrador

Alex McCarthy Noel

Repeal The Indian Act

Douglas Cardinal

Protecting the Inuit Way of Life

Aaju Peter

Tanya Talaga on the Indian Act

Tanya Talaga

How I survived residential school and became a leader

Stephen Kakfwi

Writing, success, how to step back

Rupi Kaur

Seven ways creativity is like sex

Emma Donoghue

Imagination and rationality are friends

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Thinking by dreams

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