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March 22, 2023 Agapi Gessesse: Building Employment Opportunities for Black Youth
For young Black professionals, the employment line remains a long and bumpy road—to get only half as far. Agapi Gessesse, Executive Director of the Centre for Young Black Professionals, breaks down how she is ensuring success for young Black Canadians—today and beyond.

Agapi Gessesse spoke at The Walrus Talks Advancing Work in Toronto, Ontario, on November 29, 2022.

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10 min
March 08, 2023 International Women's Day | Heather O’Neill: Girls Contain Multitudes
When women—especially teenage girls—are depicted under the male gaze in art and media, their agency is minimized, and their creativity and passion nearly always go unnoticed. For International Women’s Day, we’re featuring a 2017 talk by Heather O’Neil, which she gave at The Walrus Talks Belonging.

Heather O’Neill spoke at The Walrus Talks Belonging, in London, Ontario, on October 17, 2017.

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10 min
February 15, 2023 The Late Stephen Trumper: Troubleshooting Disability
Stephen Trumper passed away on January 4, 2023, and left behind a legacy of disability advocacy that will never be forgotten. He had been an instructor at Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Journalism since 1995. Trumper was also an editor at Toronto Life, Harrowsmith, and Financial Post Magazine, a vice-president of the Canadian Society of Magazine Editors, a board member of the National Magazine Awards Foundation, and among the over 800 fantastic Canadians who have been featured on The Walrus Talks stage.

Stephen Trumper spoke at The Walrus Talks Mobility in Hamilton, Ontario, on October 5, 2017.

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11 min
August 24, 2022 André Picard: Were Pandemic Elder Deaths Preventable?
It’s been three years since we launched The Conversation Piece. 90 episodes measured over pandemic years, launched because for a while there, we couldn’t convene the way we love to - at The Walrus Talks. Through three seasons, we’ve done our best to showcase some of the most compelling talkers who have wheeled, walked, and web-cammed onto a stage for The Walrus Talks. Health reporter and author André Picard started us off on this audio journey, with his talk on the epidemic of loneliness, so it only felt appropriate to hand the mic back for the final episode of season 3, because this has been quite a time to be a health reporter, and Picard is one of this country’s best.
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10 min
August 10, 2022 Toufah Jallow: How to Humanize and Accept Survivor Stories
Trigger Warning: this episode contains subject matter which includes sexual assault and domestic violence.

The stories told by sexual assault survivors are best told through their voice when they are ready, but that can mean secondary pain in the form of judgement, disbelief, and shame. It’s why so many survivors don’t speak their truths. Because words like “allegedly” take the power of their words and minimize them to protect their attacker’s rights. And it’s one of the reasons why Toufah Jallow does what she does. Jallow is an anti-rape activist who spoke at Concordia presents, The Walrus Talks: What’s Next? In Ottawa.
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12 min
July 27, 2022 Andrea Gunraj: The 5 C's and the Care Economy
Women, Two Spirit, trans and non binary people across the spectrum have been at the forefront of what it means to be a caregiver. Whether society defines it as nurture or instinct, one thing’s for certain, over half of the women in our economy work in the 5 C’s: caring, catering, clerical work, cashiering and cleaning. Andrea Gunraj is the Vice President of Public Engagement at the Canadian Women’s Foundation and she spoke about why we need to value care work in order to protect women and gender diverse people. Gunraj spoke at Concordia University presents “The Walrus Talks: What’s Next” in May 2022.
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8 min
July 13, 2022 Ashlee Cunsolo: Ecological Grief and the Climate Crisis
Information about global warming is everywhere. And although the delivery of this message brings up awareness, the overload of information can lead to ecological grief and anxiety. According to Geographer Ashlee Cunsolo, says that despite the discomfort these emotions may bring, acknowledging these feelings can better help us understand the severity of the climate situation. Cunsolo is the founding dean of the School of Arctic and sub-Arctic Studies at the Labrador campus, at Memorial University. She spoke at the The Walrus Talks Youth and the Climate Crisis in March 2022.
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7 min
June 29, 2022 Chief Cadmus Delorme: The Future of Truth and Reconciliation
Generation Y inherited the truth of the 60s scoop, residential schools, and treaties, they did not create it, but Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians have the responsibility of facing that truth. Many generations of Indigenous Canadians have been living in a sort of horizontal survival mode - because their vertical lineage leads straight back to those truths. Chief Cadmus Delorme is currently Chief of the Cowessess First Nation and he spoke at The Walrus Talks: What’s Next? In Toronto.
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9 min
June 15, 2022 Camille Dundas: Going Farther than Hiring a BIPOC
Activism is changing the strategies of how many media organizations tell their stories: from the Black Lives Matter movement to Asian Heritage Month to #MeToo. But it hasn’t been a perfect trajectory - reporting on the changing social and political landscape takes skill, and sometimes learning from mistakes in real-time. Camille Dundas is the Editor-in-Chief of Canada's largest Black online magazine ByBlacks.com, and she spoke at Concordia presents, The Walrus Talks: What’s Next? In Ottawa.
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10 min
June 01, 2022 Naila Moloo: Including Youth in the Climate Change Conversation
The climate crisis is a global issue and requires a coordinated effort from everyone. But the people who will be most impacted by this crisis are often excluded from conversations on climate change: our youth. Naila Moloo believes that youth need to be involved in climate change discussions and in developing solutions. Moloo is an Innovator at The Knowledge Society and she spoke at The Walrus Talks at Home: Youth and the Climate Crisis in March 2022.
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