• Understanding Obesity - Busting Myths, Breaking Stigma, and Counting the True Cost of a Chronic Disease by Madeleine Somerville

• Part 10: Why Do We Travel?
  To Transform Ourselves - Wade Davis left home to escape monotony and tumult. On the open road, he found bliss and rebirth. by The Walrus Lab

• “It’s Impossible to Do Things Alone”: Valérie Bah on Artists Seeking Community - In Subterrane, creatives reach for each other on the fringes of society. Its author knows that life. by The Walrus Lab

• The Walrus Talks at Home: Growing Canadian Productivity - How can Canada become an innovation nation?

• Climate at a Crossroads - Tackling disinformation in economic and environmental policy.

• The Walrus Talks Sovereign Canada - Exploring the past, present, and future of Canadian sovereignty in a changing world

• The Walrus Talks Philanthropy in a Changing Canada - How philanthropy is evolving to serve the needs of our communities

• The Walrus Talks Ending Gender-Based Violence - A national conversation for change

• The Walrus Talks Innovation Nation - Canadian research to real-world solutions

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This week on What Happened Next, host Nathan Whitlock is joined by Peter Counter. Peter is a culture critic who writes about video games, film, music, mental illness, horror, and technology. His most recent book is the memoir How to Restore a Timeline: On Violence and Memory, published by House of Anansi Press in 2023. Peter and Nathan talk about what it’s like to be a culture critic in 2025, about the various forms Peter’s memoir took over the decade or so he was writing it and trying to get it published, and about Nathan’s envy over Peter getting John Hodgman to blurb his book.

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Community isn’t just built through service. It’s sustained through shared purpose, trust, and care. Cyndi Gilbert is a board member and logistics coordinator at The Bike Brigade. This special episode of The Conversation Piece features content from her presentation at The Walrus Talks: Reimagining Volunteerism, supported by The Belonging Forum, an initiative of the Samuel Centre for Social Connectedness. Gilbert spoke at The Walrus Talks: Reimagining Volunteerism on April 15, 2025.

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A new podcast from Mount Pleasant Group and The Walrus Lab exploring what happens when you die—how to prepare, the costs of death care, sustainable burial options, and how professionals like embalmers navigate a death-centered industry. Through expert guests and candid conversations, Sorry for Your Loss pulls back the veil on dying and death, offering a sensitive and informative look at what lies ahead.

• They Called Her “Climate Barbie.” She Fired Back - Catherine McKenna on misogyny, rage farming, and the toll of online violence in Canadian politics by Catherine McKenna

• I Have a Wodehouse Problem. The Problem Is I Can’t Stop Reading Him - I have to limit myself to three pages at a go, once per day, with the first cup of coffee by Mark Migotti

• How Jane Goodall’s Breakthrough Began with a Chimpanzee in Tanzania - The renowned conservationist died this week at 91. Her work transformed our understanding of what it means to be human by Keriann McGoogan