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The Polarizing Impact of Social Media on Politics

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Independent and Hyperlocal Journalism Combat Polarization

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Trevor Gardner

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Paul Taylor

We must do better to protect migrant workers

Amanda Aziz

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Michelle Douglas

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Technology is not neutral

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Pathways to Resilience in Canada’s Food System

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We’ve Mandated People to Live in Poverty

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Microgrants Open Doors to Big Opportunities

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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?

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Being an Artist in Canada Requires Privilege

Ian Kamau

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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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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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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Conversations, community, and the climate crisis

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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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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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Alisha Arora

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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Connectivity, dissent, beliefs and screens

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Trust in our current state

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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

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We need to reassess how we value digital content creators

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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

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Against Resilience

Anne Spice

The Walrus Talks at Home: Reimagining Resilience

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Aiming Higher for Multi-platform Journalism

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Creating Context Rich Journalism Funded by Readers

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Why Journalism Should be a Public Service

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The Walrus Talks at Home: News & Platforms

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Living Labs and Frame of Mind

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Urban Farming, Circular Packaging, Building Community

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Is a Circular Economy Liveable for Everyone?

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Fashion’s Colonial Roots Impact its Sustainable Future

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

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Digital Media Literacy: Influence and Empathy

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Digital Technologies and Democracy

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The Limits of Regulating Online Expression

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Daily Misinformation is Causing Real Harm

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The Walrus Talks at Home: The Future of Speech Online

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From UN Development Goals to Resilient Cities

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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

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The Walrus Talks at Home: Resilience

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The Power of Petitioning for Change Online

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Editing the Online Narratives of Women in STEM

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Human Rights Activism and the Emergence of New Tech

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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

Diversity plus equity plus inclusion equals more profitability

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Be intentional, fearless, and a bridge for opportunity

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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

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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?

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

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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

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Festivals and concerts often get forgotten

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Music is about connecting with all people

Gift Tshuma

The inaccessibility of CanLit

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The Walrus Talks at Home: Inclusion (Part Two)

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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 mystery of intelligence

Yann LeCun

Building values and ethics into AI

Stephanie Dinkins

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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

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Jack Mustard

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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

Sylvia D. Hamilton

Thinking by dreams

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