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For alpinists climbing Everest, survival depends on the quality of one's guides and equipment. An ongoing squeeze to push out foreign expedition companies in favour of cheaper local ones may not have the most positive results, writes Bernadette McDonald.
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The hedonism of the 1960s gave way to reactionism in writers like Leonard Cohen and Joan Didion. As
@SimonLewsen
writes, Didion argued that “when you replace scripture with rock ’n’ roll and supplication with LSD, you don’t get utopia; you get entropy.”
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It’s always satisfying to reach the end of a tube of lip balm, scrape the last bit of peanut butter out of a jar, or burn a candle down to a crater of wax. So, asks contributing writer
@michellecyca
, why shouldn’t we aspire to wear our books out too?
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Dive into the brand new issue of The Walrus, featuring some hard-hitting stories: “Justin Trudeau’s Last Stand,” “Inside the Biggest Art Fraud in History,” “The Tokenism Trap,” and many more fantastic reads. Subscribe today and get 8 issues for only $2.50 an issue.
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Cancer remains the leading cause of death in Canada. About one in two Canadians will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetimes; one in four will die of it. The toll is more than 80,000 per year.
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When it comes to the possibilities tech could open up for farms, it’s all about efficiency. How many tasks can you squeeze out of a day? How much faster can you move?
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The Taliban have done their best to destroy free expression but, as research professor Michael Semple explains, access to social media—however limited—means some Afghans can still share information, protest, and reach a global audience.
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How can Canadian artists and cultural institutions use
#AI
to push boundaries and redefine what is possible? Find the answer to this question and more
@Concordia
presents The Walrus Talks Cultural Futures. Join us
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To find evidence in film and TV that the pandemic even happened, you often have to read between the frames. Photographer Caitlin Cronenberg’s debut film, Humane, is the latest example of this cultural phenomenon, writes Simon Lewsen.
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#AI
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@GillerPrize
-winning author
@swanmichaels
’s novel about human–AI poetry collaboration. Brian Bethune reviews the new book here:
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Experience the impact of a mysterious object discovered in a Japanese village in “Two Female Modes of Transportation” by Jowita Bydlowska (
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“The stories of the Jewish Holocaust, the holocaust in Rwanda, the Partition of India, the trauma of apartheid, the Atlantic slave trade, and the massacres in Kenya and Cambodia are Canadian stories,” writes author M.G. Vassanji.
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Inside the latest edition of The Walrus Reads: teen dreams, a provincial bully, and cold cases.
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Political science professor Jamie Levin and journalist
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reflect on the potential promise and dashed dreams of Rawabi, Palestine’s first new city built in the Israeli-occupied West Bank since 1948.
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“Some things we simply want to forget.” Less than a year after the
@WHO
declared that the pandemic was no longer a global emergency, our cultural landscape has quickly moved on to action movies, Barbie, and Beyoncé, writes
@SimonLewsen
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While the carbon tax could be improved, the Conservatives are out for destruction—not reform, writes
@arno_kopecky
, who argues that by tapping voter frustration, the Conservatives have turned the policy into a scapegoat to use against the Liberals.
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New crossword is up! Head over to The Walrus Games:
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A violent altercation that erupted on Mount Everest in 2013 was only the beginning of an ongoing effort by local climbers to push foreigners out of the lucrative business of conquering some of Earth’s highest peaks, writes Bernadette McDonald.
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