How much further can mining go? In this excerpt from Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places, published by Greystone Books, author Christopher Pollon explores the future of the industry:
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Award winning independent journalism, fact checking, and national ideas-focused events. The Walrus provokes new thinking and sparks conversation on matters vital to Canadians.
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Roots is a wholesome Canadian label that manages to be both affordable and high quality, comfortable and stylish. But that wholesomeness is limiting the company’s ability to reinvent itself for the modern world, writes Josh Greenblatt.
Roots’ Race to Make Hoodies and Sweatpants Sexy | The Walrus
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Local artists have put “fragments of the real,” such as interviews, artifacts, or witnesses, at the core of the documentary theatre world, says Hervé Guay, a scholar who co-edited a book about the genre’s recent bloom in Quebec.
How Quebec Fell in Love with Documentary Theatre | The Walrus
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When she was younger, writer Mireille Silcoff drank Diet Pepsi as part of a routine of “borderline-anorexic self-perfectionism.” Diet Pepsi was not a place of health but of decadent control.
My Guilty Pleasure Is My Old Friend, Diet Pepsi | The Walrus
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“We grew up with the Body Shop, but it didn’t grow up with us,” esthetician and beauty brand developer Alicia Lartey told Refinery29. As Lisa Whittington-Hill writes, the retailer’s failure to evolve is causing the company to lose out on millennial and Gen Z shoppers.
Goodbye Body Shop? Buying Body Butter Can’t Save the World | The Walrus
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"We are five to ten years from a partial artificial womb for humans, according to estimates."
Will New Tech End the Need for Human Pregnancy? | The Walrus
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New crossword is up! Head over to The Walrus Games:
Games | The Walrus
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Inside the latest edition of The Walrus Reads: tick troubles, bad biopics, and debates on deafness.
Tick Troubles, Bad Biopics, and Debates on Deafness
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Writer Marcello Di Cintio joined a group of activists who perform an annual walk across the US–Mexico border in honour of migrants who died making the journey. Here, he reflects on what the pilgrimage means—and what it doesn’t mean:
“We Don’t Have Any Water. We’re Lost”: In the Footsteps of Migrants Who Never Made It
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The future of hybrid work is unclear, but a few key events serve as indicators for what is to come. And it looks like it’s here to stay—whether employers like it or not, writes Jon Peirce in his new book, Work Less: New Strategies for a Changing Workplace.
Hybrid Workplaces Are Still a Headache | The Walrus
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