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Dr. Deena Hinshaw on Women Leading Through Crisis

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THE WALRUS TALKS EXPLORATION (MARCH 2020)

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

CANADA'S GREEN FUTURE

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

INDIGENOUS IDENTITIES

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

BECOME A BETTER WRITER

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

Guy Vanderhaeghe

Resilience through storytelling

Susan Wener

The terrible childhood of literary giants

Heather O’Neill

Good stories make good neighbours

Miranda Hill

Inside the rebel territory

Bior Ajak

Poetry as the great connector

Micheline Maylor

Canada is Constantly Evolving

Jane Urquhart

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Sit With the Discomfort

Syrus Marcus Ware

The Dark Side of Rewards Programs

Vass Bednar

Can billionaires buy us a better world?

Anna Porter

Loneliness is the greatest poverty

André Picard

Mistresses Should Be Muslim Too

Noor Naga

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The Walrus Talks Clean Tech

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The Walrus Talks Inclusion

WATERLOO | OCTOBER 2019

EXPLORING THE FUTURE

The Future of Canada is Water

Geoff Green

The Future of Brand

Terry O’Reilly

The future will look like this current mess

Chris Turner

The Future is Accessible

Aimee Louw

The new social contract we all have to build for the digital era

Don Tapscott

How 3D Printers Can Impact 1+ Billion Lives

Julielynn Wong

The Next 50 years of Canadian Writing

Margaret Atwood

The Future of Work

Eric Termuende

Now is the time for innovators

Ariel Garten

Super organs, transplantation, and the future of health care

Shaf Keshavjee

REFRESHING SPEECHES

Creativity is a Gift

Freeman Patterson

The right way to ask questions about your colleague’s race

Ritu Bhasin

Multi-Narrativism not Multiculturalism

Atom Egoyan

Health happens when you fight for It

Nick Saul

How to get laid without your phone

Siri Agrell

Girls, Robots, and The Importance of Mentors

Lauren Voisin

My best stories of success

Carol Off

Think like an immigrant

Zahra Al-Harazi

We Are Hard-Wired for Exploration

John Geiger

The Sky is Not the Limit

Julie Payette