2012
- May 14, 2012
The June 2012 issue of The Walrus - May 1, 2012
2011 National Magazine Award Nominations - April 18, 2012
The Walrus expands the Canadian conversation with The Walrus Soapbox - April 16, 2012
The May 2012 issue of The Walrus - April 5, 2012
The Walrus launches The Walrus Books, an imprint of the Walrus Foundation, with an original short story by internationally acclaimed author Margaret Atwood, printed by the venerable Coach House Press - March 19, 2012
The Walrus and McGill return to the Segal Centre - March 8, 2012
The April 2012 issue of The Walrus - January 27, 2012
The March 2012 issue of The Walrus - January 10, 2012
Walrus TV launches smart programming at walrustv.ca
The June 2012 issue of The Walrus
On national newsstands May 14, 2012
Toronto — May 14, 2012 — The Walrus continues its commitment to cities in the new June issue with a landmark story by award-winning journalist and Calgarian Chris Turner. “Calgary Reconsidered: Six Truths About Calgary” explores Canada’s boomtown, and shows a city with a changing brand that carries a history it can’t escape. Looking at politics, the arts, history (2012 is the centennial of the Calgary Stampede and the first great downtown building rush), the people, and more, Turner’s piece tackles the paradoxes of Cowtown while showing its promise. The June issue of The Walrus will be released with a series of collectible covers depicting three different sides of Calgary.
The Walrus Foundation is pleased to continue this conversation about Calgary on June 7 at Enbridge Presents the Walrus Glenbow Debate at Theatre Calgary. Four debaters — Chris Turner; political journalist Joan Crockatt; CTV’s Mercedes Stephenson; and Mayor Naheed Nenshi’s chief of staff, Chima Nkemdirim — will argue Calgary’s Cowboy Culture: Living Legacy or Just History. We’ll have agents provocateurs such as Calgary Arts Development’s Terry Rock, Calgary Poet Laureate Kris Demeanor, the Calgary Stampede’s Deanne Carson, and others. Tickets are available at walrusmagazine.com/glenbow.
As well, the June issue of The Walrus features a stunning visual essay about Montreal as the world’s circus capital. With photography by Roger LeMoyne and text by writer Sean Michaels of Said the Gramophone, “Ringmasters” takes readers inside Tohu, the $73-million circus development that now houses the National Circus School, the international headquarters of Cirque de Soleil, studios for a number of smaller companies, all at the heart of Montreal and the world’s booming circus industry.
The June 2012 edition of The Walrus also brings readers:
- John Lorinc’s “The New Cold War,” which looks at how a group of hactivists, human rights advocates, techies, and academics in Toronto is leading the charge for democracy in cyberspace.
- David Sax, who profiles Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Vincent Lam and discusses the long-awaited release of Lam’s first novel, The Headmaster’s Wager.
- Anne Casselman diving deep into the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club’s ongoing search for the existence of the mythical (or possibly real?) Cadborosaurus in the waters off Victoria.
The Walrus is published ten times a year by the charitable non-profit Walrus Foundation.
For more information or to book an interview, contact: David Leonard, The Walrus Foundation, 416-971-5004 x222, david.leonard@walrusmagazine.com
2011 National Magazine Award Nominations
The Walrus receives thirty-two nominations for the thirty-fifth anniversary National Magazine Awards
The Walrus Foundation is pleased to announce that for the sixth straight year The Walrus magazine has received the highest number of National Magazine Award nominations. Our contributors were nominated for twenty-three written, seven visual, and two integrated awards*. The winners will be announced at the thirty-fifth annual National Magazine Awards gala on June 7, 2012 in Toronto.
“We’re proud to receive these nominations, and congratulate all of the writers, journalists, and artists who have been nominated,” said co-publishers John Macfarlane and Shelley Ambrose. “The Walrus is committed to publishing thoughtful content, and we are honoured to be able to do so through our work with such talented and dedicated contributors.”
The Walrus has won more National Magazine Awards since its inception than any other publication, including the 2006 award for Magazine of the Year. During that time, The Walrus has won fifty-three golds and twenty-seven silvers at the National Magazine Awards, as well as 186 honourable mentions.
The Walrus congratulates all of our nominated contributors and staff members, listed here:
- Art Direction for a Single Magazine Article: “The Meaning of Hockey” by Brian Morgan
- Art Direction for an Entire Issue: November 2011 by Brian Morgan
- Arts and Entertainment: “Adventures of a Supernumerary” by Tom Jokinen; “Modern Inconveniences” by Adele Weder
- Best Digital Design: walrusmagazine.com by Matthew McKinnon, Heather Cleland, Dave Grant, Lindsay Lafreniere, and David Rusak
- Best Short Feature: “The Stag” by Deirdre Dodds; “As the Crow Flies” by Lisa Gregoire
- Essays: “The New Solitudes” by Erna Paris; “The Morgentaler Effect” by Wayne Sumner
- Fiction: “Meet You at the Door” by Lawrence Hill; “Noisemakers” by Grace O’Connell
- Health and Medicine: “Blinded by Science” by Timothy Caulfield
- Humour: “Housebroken” by Pasha Malla
- Illustration: “Meet You at the Door” by Selena Wong; “The Farms Are Not All Right” by Scott McCowen
- Investigative Reporting: “The Only Risk Is Wanting to Stay” by Arno Kopecky; “A Political Meltdown” by Alison Motluk
- Magazine Covers: The Future of Food by Brian Morgan
- One of a Kind: “Notes from Newfoundland” by Lisa Moore; “Adrift on the Nile” by Paul Wilson; “The Archivist” by Paul Wilson
- Personal Journalism: “Adventures of a Supernumerary” by Tom Jokinen
- Photojournalism and Photo Essay: “Amazon of the North” by Eamon Mac Mahon
- Profiles: “Madam Premier”
- Science, Technology, and the Environment: “Climate Controlled” by John Lorinc; “A Rock and a Hard Place” by Chris Wood
- Society: “Arrival of the Fittest” by Rachel Giese; “The Farms Are Not All Right” by Chris Turner; “The Long Goodbye” by Katherine Ashenburg
- Sports and Recreation: “The Pain Principle” by Richard Poplak
- Spot Illustration: “Supersized” by Raymond Biesinger
- Words and Pictures: “Portraits of the War” by Joanne Tod, Brian Morgan, and Amy Macfarlane
The Walrus Foundation is a charitable non-profit organization with a mandate to promote public debate on matters vital to Canadians. The Foundation is dedicated to supporting Canadian writers, artists, readers, education, ideas, and debate. We achieve these goals across many platforms: publishing The Walrus magazine ten times a year; producing debates, leadership dinners, salons, and other events across the country; publishing original high-quality digital content at walrusmagazine.com; through such digital projects as The Walrus Laughs, Walrus Soapbox, and walrustv.ca. We also run an intensive internship program training the next generation of leaders in media, the arts, development, and the digital world. Since its inception in 2003, The Walrus magazine has won more awards than any other Canadian periodical and continues to be Canada’s leading general interest magazine.
For more information or to book an interview, contact: Kyle Wyatt, The Walrus, (416) 971-5004 ext. 254, kyle.wyatt@walrusmagazine.com.
* Update: This release has been revised following the National Magazine Awards Foundation’s review of its previously announced nominations.
The Walrus expands the Canadian conversation with The Walrus Soapbox
The Walrus Foundation and HitSend.ca launch The Walrus SoapBox at walrussoapbox.ca
Toronto — April 18, 2012 — The Walrus SoapBox is a new and nimble online platform that puts your ideas in the hands of key decision makers. The Walrus SoapBox is a strategic and innovative voting tool that will allow Canadians from coast to coast to coast and around the globe to engage with us, and with each other, about content they read in The Walrus magazine or at walrusmagazine.com, see on walrustv.ca, or explore at the Walrus Foundation’s national events.
The Walrus SoapBox is designed for community-based change; it is a perfect extension of our educational mandate to promote debate on matters vital to Canadians. With a focus on user experience, The Walrus SoapBox will expand our ability to offer a public forum for vital conversations — on the page, stage, and online — around the issues that matter.
Traditionally, a soapbox was a way in which citizens could be heard through an impromptu or unofficial burst of public speaking. The Walrus SoapBox at walrussoapbox.ca will enable users to post or evaluate (with a thumbs up or thumbs down) ideas, and connect with other users quickly, easily, and in real time. This modern form of the soapbox elevates the blog format to include the collective voice of its users.
“In addition to publishing The Walrus magazine, providing a high standard of content at walrusmagazine.com, thewalruslaughs.com, and on walrustv.ca; and producing national events, we’re thrilled to be able to engage more Canadians in important conversations through this innovative and exciting new realm called The Walrus SoapBox,” says Shelley Ambrose, co-publisher of The Walrus magazine and executive director of the charitable, non-profit Walrus Foundation.
The Walrus Foundation invites all Canadians to help launch The Walrus SoapBox at walrussoapbox.ca on April 18. Our inaugural topic will be the relevance of art in daily life. On May 2, we will hold a public debate on the same topic: The Walrus National Gallery Debate in Ottawa (walrusmagazine.com/ottawa). Submissions on The Walrus SoapBox will be referenced before, during, and after the debate — so your voice will be heard. The debate will move from the digital realm of The Walrus SoapBox to the stage, to the page, to the screen, and back to the digital realm.
“We’re thrilled to partner with The Walrus, an established thought leader committed to engaging readers in new and innovative ways. For us, a company all about ideas, it is a perfect fit. Through our platform, The Walrus audience will be able to interact and shape content and events in a meaningful way, adding a new dynamic to the already conversational nature of the magazine,” says HitSend.ca founder and CEO Brennan McEachran.
To join us on The Walrus SoapBox: simply go to walrussoapbox.ca, click “sign up” to create a user account (or alternatively log in to The Walrus SoapBox through Facebook or Google+), and then engage in the conversation.
For tickets to The Walrus National Gallery Debate in Ottawa on May 2, visit walrusmagazine.com/ottawa.
We are grateful for the support of the Canada Council for the Arts at The Walrus National Gallery Debate and to the Ontario Trillium Foundation and the Ontario Media Development Corporation for their ongoing support of our digital strategy.
About The Walrus Foundation: The Walrus Foundation is a charitable non-profit organization with a mandate to promote public discourse on matters vital to our country. The Foundation is dedicated to supporting Canadian writers, artists, readers, education, ideas, and debate.
About HitSend: HitSend Inc. is dedicated to increasing collective happiness by making tools that empower communities to set and achieve goals. HitSend’s first product, SoapBox, is an online platform for community-based change that allows each person to get their idea in the hands of key decision makers. SoapBox was originally envisioned by Brennan McEachran, who as a student at Ryerson University wanted to create a way to make his school a better place by aggregating the input of his fellow students. HitSend is currently based in the Ryerson Digital Media Zone, a startup incubator in Toronto, Canada. For more information, please visit wwww.hitsend.ca.
For more information or to book an interview, contact: David Leonard, The Walrus Foundation, 416-971-5004 x222, david.leonard@walrusmagazine.com.
The May 2012 issue of The Walrus
On national newsstands on April 16, 2012
Toronto — April 16, 2012 — The May 2012 issue of The Walrus hits newsstands on April 16 with a feature profile of Green Party leader, Elizabeth May, by journalist Susan Harada. In our cover story — “House Rules” — Harada follows May through the trials and tribulations of navigating Parliament Hill as the leader of a one-seat party. She shows how the country’s hardest-working politician guarantees that her voice will be heard and, through doing so, might just rescue the democratic process in Canada.
The May issue of The Walrus also features Joel McConvey’s “A Park Apart,” a profile of Canada’s newest and most remote national park — Nova Scotia’s Sable Island. Known primarily for its wild horses and its foggy history of shipwrecks, Sable Island is also a unique ecosystem. McConvery questions whether public access will protect the park’s ecological integrity from irreversible damage.
Also in the May issue are essays by Walrus senior editor Rachel Giese and managing editor Kyle Carsten Wyatt. In “The Bully Pulpit,” Giese questions our enforcement of anti-bullying regulations in school and on the playground. She argues that we must examine how bullying is fostered in children and asks where the line between letting kids be kids and their protection really is. In “Of Culture and Condos,” Wyatt ponders the implications of literary critic Northrop Frye’s concepts of the “garrison mentality” and the “condominium mentality,” for Canada’s twenty-first-century architectural landscape.
The May 2012 edition of The Walrus also includes:
- Mark Czarnecki’s “Lost on the Gene Map” examines the Human Genome Project — a promise to deliver a road map for personalized medicine — and asks if we are ready for its medical and ethical implications.
- Heather O’Neill’s “On Growing Up White Trash” explores how the Montreal-based novelist came to terms with the culture of her birth.
- John Lorinc's “Road Rage” reviews Tara Grescoe’s Straphanger, in which transit is more than getting to one’s destination — it’s about how individuals choose to live in cities.
- Kaitlin Fontana’s “Weird West” investigates the world’s sci-fi capital, Vancouver.
- Lyndsie Bourgon’s “Hurricane Surfing” follows Nova Scotia’s surfers, on their search for dangerous — and secret — waves.
- Kaija Pepper’s “Stories with Legs” profiles edgy choreographer Crystal Pite and what’s been dubbed the future of ballet.
The Walrus is published ten times a year by the charitable non-profit Walrus Foundation.
For more information or to book an interview, contact: David Leonard, The Walrus Foundation, 416-971-5004 x222, david.leonard@walrusmagazine.com
The Walrus Launches The Walrus Books, an imprint of the Walrus Foundation, with an original short story by internationally acclaimed author Margaret Atwood, printed by the venerable Coach House Press
TORONTO — April 5, 2012 — In I Dream of Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth, Margaret Atwood revisits Zenia, the mercenary character from her best-selling novel The Robber Bride:
“Long ago, when they were a lot younger, Zenia stole a man from each of them. Then she died. Now she’s come back. Or has she? There’s more than one kind of ghost.”
The Walrus Foundation’s first-ever book is a unique, thirty-two–page collector’s item. It is available ONLY to new and renewing subscribers of The Walrus magazine’s print, digital, or tablet editions. Ms. Atwood will sign and number the first 100 of the 2,000 copies in our limited edition print run.
“We’re thrilled to launch The Walrus Books with a short story by Margaret Atwood, who is not only generous and supportive of the work of the Walrus Foundation but is also having herself a great time in this short story,” says Shelley Ambrose, co-publisher of The Walrus and executive director of the Walrus Foundation. “Whether or not you have read The Robber Bride, you’ll love this crafty, twisty, turny tale of Zenia, the character who Atwood has always said she identifies with the most.”
“Zenia is a professional liar,” says Atwood. “Like all fiction writers.”
I Dream of Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth is a beautifully crafted work, designed by Brian Morgan, art director of The Walrus, with a cover pattern by Marian Bantjes.
It is entirely fitting that the Walrus Foundation, which has an educational mandate to promote debate on matters vital to Canadians and to support writers, readers, artists, and ideas, would partner with Coach House Press to launch The Walrus Books. Coach House, founded in 1965, has always maintained a dual role in Canadian letters by both publishing and printing books, setting new standards for design and quality.
The short story will appear in our best-selling Summer Reading issue, but it can be yours first in this unique format for a limited time only — and only through this online offer. To get your copy of this book, you must visit walrusmagazine.com/atwood, then subscribe — or renew an existing subscription — to The Walrus magazine.
For more information, or to book an interview, please contact Shelley Ambrose at (416) 971-5004, ext. 236 or shelley@walrusmagazine.com.
The Walrus and McGill return to the Segal Centre
The Walrus McGill Talks at the Segal Centre on April 3, 2012: “The Art of Cultural Diversity”
Montreal — March 19, 2012 — The Walrus Foundation, McGill University, the Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas (IPLAI) and the Segal Centre are pleased to present the inaugural Walrus McGill Talks at the Segal Centre on April 3, 2012. The Talks continue the partnership that began with last year’s sold out Walrus McGill Debate at the Segal Centre, and will feature well-known thinkers, each giving a short talk on The Art of Cultural Diversity.
Our speakers will address various aspects of cultural diversity in Montreal — and in Quebec as a whole. They will include: Jenny Burman (Art History and Communication Studies, McGill), Cameron Charlebois (Canada Lands Company), Anne Lagacé Dowson (president and director general of the Tolerance Foundation, broadcaster), Maurice Forget (Fasken Martineau), Manon Gauthier (Segal Centre), Nantali Indongo (Nomadic Massive), Anne-Marie Jean (Culture Montréal), Eric M’Boua (Diversité Artistique Montréal), Noah Richler (author and broadcaster), and Will Straw (McGill Institute of the Study of Canada).
“As publishers of Canada’s best magazine, it’s important for us to bring discussion from the page to the stage to promote public participation in issues relevant to Canadians,” said Shelley Ambrose, co-publisher of The Walrus and executive director of the charitable, non-profit Walrus Foundation. “In any multicultural, multilingual city with a robust arts community, this kind of conversation is crucial, and we’re thrilled to bring these Talks to Montreal to discuss the achievements and challenges of cultural diversity in one of the world’s best cities,” added Ambrose.
“The Walrus and the Segal Centre share our commitment to public education, and we’re thrilled that we can once again partner with them to bring these lively talks to our students, faculty, and the people of Montreal,” said Christopher Manfredi, Dean of Arts of McGill University.
“The Segal Centre is proud to support the inaugural Walrus McGill Talks. We strongly believe that partnerships with organizations such as The Walrus Foundation, McGill University, and the Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas (IPLAI) are paramount to building a vibrant arts community and strengthening our collective mission to promote the importance of Montreal’s cultural diversity,” says Manon Gauthier, CEO of the Segal Centre.
Who: Jenny Burman, Cameron Charlebois, Anne Lagacé Dowson, Maurice Forget, Manon Gauthier, Nantali Indongo, Anne-Marie Jean, Eric M’Boua, Noah Richler, and Will Straw.
What: The Walrus McGill Talks at the Segal Centre.
Where: Segal Centre for the Performing Arts, 5170 Chemin de la Côte-Ste-Catherine, Montreal.
When: Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 6:00 p.m. Admission: $15 general; $10 students.
For more information or to book an interview, contact: David Leonard, The Walrus Foundation, 416-971-5004 x222, david.leonard@walrusmagazine.com; Cynthia Lee, McGill University, 514-398-6754, cynthia.lee@mcgill.ca
The April 2012 issue of The Walrus
On national newsstands March 12, 2012
Toronto — March 8, 2012 — In the April issue of The Walrus magazine, senior editor Rachel Giese highlights the growing epidemic of medical error in Canada, which recent studies suggest results in some 24,000 deaths annually. “The Errors of Their Ways” reveals how flawed structures in our medical system and individual practitioner errors have combined to create an environment of faulty medicine. Giese introduces readers to experts working to reform the system and retrain practitioners — reducing medical error and improving patient safety.
Also in the April issue, Noah Richler explores the shifting role of Canadian Forces and several myths surrounding our military. He suggests that the post-9/11 image of the armed forces has changed from that of peacekeepers to that of warriors. He explains how the government has consciously and deliberately shifted that image, in an attempt to reposition Canada’s military on the international stage.
Elsewhere in this issue, Adam Nayman profiles Canadian filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal and reviews Payback — her adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s CBC Massey Lectures. A deep-thinking documentarian who isn’t afraid to take risks in bringing difficult topics to the screen, Baichwal is poised for her biggest success yet with her new movie.
Additionally in the April 2012 issue of The Walrus:
- John Lorinc investigates a proposed federal financial literacy leader, who will teach Canadians how to manage their money.
- Michael Harris explains how today’s libraries are about much more than books.
- Chris Turner discovers the uncomfortable socio-economics of the cheap beach vacation in “On Tipping in Cuba.”
- “The Life of a Zombie” and three more original pieces of fiction by Lynn Crosbie.
- A look by Jay Somerset at contemporary composer Ann Southam — who lived her life as she wrote her music.
The Walrus is published ten times a year by the charitable non-profit Walrus Foundation.
For more information or to book an interview, contact: David Leonard, The Walrus Foundation, 416-971-5004 x222, david.leonard@walrusmagazine.com
The March 2012 issue of The Walrus
On national newsstands January 30, 2012
Toronto — January 27, 2012 — The March 2012 issue of The Walrus hits the stands on January 30, with Stephen Marche’s cover story on the War of 1812. In “That Time We Beat the Americans,” Marche examines the source of two centuries’ worth of friendly tension to answer the question of just how we differ from our southern neighbours. He pays tribute to this year’s bicentennial of the War of 1812 by showing how it set the tone for our love-hate relationship with the United States. Resurrecting battle scenes and focusing on key historical figures, he tracks the evidence of Canada’s burgeoning regional solidarity as it developed during the war, and concludes that the battle for the border resulted in the formation of a uniquely Canadian identity.
The Walrus will mark the bicentennial of the War of 1812 with an original high-definition documentary that will run on eqhd as part of Walrus TV. At walrusmagazine.com/1812, you’ll find an exclusive, dedicated online archive of photos, memorabilia, and more related to the war.
This issue features Maryam Sanati’s essay “Brand Me,” in which she questions the use and abuse of Internet self-promotion. Her Gen X perspective on Gen Y personal branding asks whether today’s twentysomethings are driven by narcissism or entrepreneurship — and whether the generation that raised them deserves blame or praise.
The March 2012 edition of The Walrus also contains:
- New poetry by Leonard Cohen and Griffin Poetry Prize winner A.F. Moritz.
- A column by Sasha Chapman on how the James Beard Foundation influenced the formation of a contemporary American cuisine.
- Richard Poplak exploring Canada’s commitment (or lack thereof) to soccer as a national sport and an international passion
- Taras Grescoe’s look at how the mayor of Montreal’s Plateau neighbourhood is making controversial strides toward taking back city roads for pedestrians and cyclists.
- Jen Gerson’s profile of Danielle Smith, leader of Alberta’s game-changing Wildrose Party.
- John Schram’s personal account of his time living as a Canadian diplomat in Pretoria during the Mandela era.
- Terence Byrnes’s memoir of his hunt for the war trophy that may have killed his father.
The Walrus is published ten times a year by the charitable non-profit Walrus Foundation.
For more information or to book an interview, contact: David Leonard, The Walrus Foundation, 416-971-5004 x222, david.leonard@walrusmagazine.com
Walrus TV launches smart programming at walrustv.ca
Smart on the page, smart on the screen
Toronto — January 10, 2012 — The Walrus Foundation is bringing its award-winning content from the pages of The Walrus magazine to the screen, and has announced today the launch of Walrus TV and walrustv.ca. Walrus TV is a partnership between The Walrus Foundation and Canada’s home to the smartest programming on television, eqhd, and combines quality high-definition television with web-only exclusive programming for online viewers.
Walrus TV’s programs include: original high-definition programming based on sister-content from The Walrus, and produced by eqhd; nationwide Walrus Foundation events and debates; and web-only video exclusives from The Walrus.
The centerpiece of walrustv.ca is the original smart and savvy content produced by eqhd. A premium HD channel focused on providing its subscribers with compelling documentaries and commercial-free feature films, eqhd is producing high-quality documentaries and other content to complement The Walrus magazine’s award-winning articles. This partnership means fans of quality television and award-winning writing can now get the best of the page and the screen by watching Walrus TV in high definition on eqhd, and online at walrustv.ca.
“No other magazine in our category has their stories brought to the screen as documentaries,” says executive director of The Walrus Foundation, Shelley Ambrose. “The Walrus/eqhd partnership is a first.”
“We’re a channel that provides viewers with programming that respects, inspires, and engages,” says Ken Murphy, president of eqhd. “Working with The Walrus magazine is a natural fit for us.”
Walrustv.ca launches with 27 documentaries and original pieces, and new content will be added frequently. Some of the fine programming now available at walrustv.ca includes:
High-Definition Documentaries including:
- “Life After Death” — based on the cover story in the September 2011 issue of The Walrus about thirty years of HIV/AIDS
- “Mosque Makeovers” — based on an article from the April 2011 issue of The Walrus
- “Portraits of the War” — based on Joanne Tod’s portraits of Canada’s fallen soldiers from the July/August 2011 issue of The Walrus
- “The Meaning of Hockey” — based on Stephen Marche’s essay in the November 2011 issue of The Walrus
- Canadian diplomat Robert Fowler’s first-hand account, from the December 2011 issue, of the harrowing time he spent in the desert after being kidnapped by Al Qaeda
- Poetry readings produced by eqhd from poems and poets published in The Walrus including Damian Rogers, Paul Vermeersch, Linda Besner, Jacob McArthur Mooney, and Jeff Latosik
Special broadcasts of The Walrus Foundation events including:
- “TD Presents The Walrus Toronto Project Debate at the Art Gallery of Ontario: Be it Resolved that Toronto Will Never be Beautiful”
- The inaugural “Walrus National Gallery Debate: ‘Pop Art: Is it avant-garde or is it kitsch?’”
- The Toronto, Halifax, and Vancouver editions of The Walrus RBC Conversation Series on Child and Youth Mental Health
- Chris Wood in Yellowknife at “The Walrus Last Great Water Fight” panel
“The Walrus has evolved into a multi-platform planet delivering high-quality content to readers, visitors, viewers, and attendees through the award-winning magazine The Walrus,” says Ambrose, “and also through a huge variety of content at walrusmagazine.com, through more than thirty national events including debates, conversation series, leadership dinners; through unique digital projects such as The Walrus Laughs, and now, thrillingly, working with eqhd, Walrus TV.”
ABOUT THE WALRUS FOUNDATION: The Walrus Foundation is a charitable non-profit organization with a mandate to promote public debate on matters vital to Canadians. The Foundation is dedicated to supporting Canadian writers, artists, readers, education, ideas, and debate. We achieve these goals across many platforms: publishing The Walrus magazine ten times a year; producing debates, leadership dinners, salons, and other events across the country; publishing original high-quality digital content at walrusmagazine.com; through such digital projects as The Walrus Laughs; and now, by partnering with eqhd to provide documentaries and other programming at walrustv.ca. We also run an intensive internship program training the next generation of leaders in media, the arts, development, and the digital world.
For more information about The Walrus Foundation, call David Leonard at 416-971-5004 x222 or email david.leonard@walrusmagazine.com. To advertise on Walrus TV, contact Nick Cino (nick.cino@walrusmagazine.com or 416 971 5004 ext. 243) or Joseph Connolly (joseph.connolly@walrusmagazine.com or 416 971 5004 ext. 233).
About eqhd: eqhd provides Canadians with some of the smartest programming available on television. eqhd celebrates ideas, perspectives, and ways of life around the world by bringing your family compelling documentaries and commercial-free feature films that will inspire and engage you. eqhd is owned and operated by High Fidelity HDTV, Canada’s leading HD broadcaster. Its suite of four premium HD channels, Oasis HD, HIFI, eqhd, and radX provides Canadians with some of the best non-fiction programming from around the world.
For more information on eqhd, please visit eqhd.ca or contact: Andrew Irwin, High Fidelity HDTV, (416) 686-7469 or andrewirwin@hifihdtv.ca.
2011
- November 29, 2011
The January/February 2012 special double winter issue of The Walrus - November 25, 2011
British Columbian Glen Chua wins The Walrus Travel Photography Contest sponsored by Aeroplan - November 16, 2011
The Walrus comes to High Performance Rodeo - November 4, 2011
The Walrus recognized for excellence at the ADCC awards - November 2, 2011
The December 2011 issue of The Walrus - October 25, 2011
Walrusmagazine.com wins prestigious Canadian Online Publishing Awards - October 7, 2011
Join The Walrus Foundation and The Toronto Project on Soapbox - September 27, 2011
The November 2011 issue of The Walrus - August 29, 2011
The October 2011 issue of The Walrus - August 15, 2011
The September 2011 issue of The Walrus - July 15, 2011
Canadians to choose winner of The Walrus Travel Photography Contest sponsored by Aeroplan - June 10, 2011
The Walrus leads way with ten at the NMAs - May 31, 2011
The July/August 2011 issue of The Walrus - April 28, 2011
The June 2011 issue of The Walrus - May 2, 2011
National Magazine Award Nominations - April 20, 2011
High Fidelity HDTV and The Walrus Foundation announce strategic content partnership - March 31, 2011
The May 2011 issue of The Walrus - March 24, 2011
Enhancing the cultural life of a city: If you build it, will they come? - January 26, 2011
Aeroplan and The Walrus Foundation Announce an Amateur Travel Photography Contest
The January/February 2012 special double winter issue of The Walrus
On national newsstands December 5, 2011
Toronto — November 29, 2011 — The January/February 2012 special double winter issue of The Walrus arrives on newsstands on December 5, stuffed with wonderful reads. Award-winning writer Don Gillmor reports on “The Invention of Waterloo.” Centred around Research in Motion — the city’s multibillion-dollar success story — and the University of Waterloo’s deliberate policy of not laying claim to patents filed by its researchers, Gillmor shows how Waterloo actually planned the creation of a vibrant North American technology hub. Furthermore, he examines how RIM and the university are giving back to the city and ensuring its reputation for innovation in technology and research will persist.
Also in our special double winter issue, historian and bestselling author Charlotte Gray profiles Canada’s twenty-eighth Governor General, David Johnston. Gray gives readers a look inside Rideau Hall, and the man who she says is the government’s secret weapon to restore the monarchy to prominence in Canada. Equal parts profile of Johnston and of the governor generalship itself, “Reign Maker” shows how Johnston’s credentials, connections, and old-fashioned charm make him the government’s ideal man for a challenging job.
The issue also features journalist Daniel Baird’s look at the weirdly persistent recurrence of the end-of-the-world prophecies. As we move toward the end of the ancient Mayan calendar — a date that people in many circles are declaring to be the end of the world as we know it — Baird takes a timely look at predictions of the coming of the apocalypse. Drawing on references that range from Isaiah to Jeff Rubin to REM, Baird examines the religious, social, and economic reasons for our fascination with end times, and what it says about us.
In addition, Sara Angel explores the life and work of artist Jack Chambers; Jeremy Relph meets a Libyan-Canadian who left his Canadian university to fight in Libya’s revolution; Emily Landau critiques Douglas Coupland’s new book of stories; Chantal Martineau ponders how Québécois comfort food is taking over Manhattan; Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer offers new fiction; and much more.
The Walrus is published ten times a year by the charitable non-profit Walrus Foundation.
For more information or to book an interview, contact: David Leonard, The Walrus Foundation, 416-971-5004 x222, david.leonard@walrusmagazine.com
British Columbian Glen Chua wins The Walrus Travel Photography Contest sponsored by Aeroplan
More than 3,500 entries across Canada
“Cyclists and Pedestrians in Guwahati, India” by Glen ChuaToronto/Montreal — November 25, 2011 — The Walrus Foundation announced today that British Columbia–based amateur photographer Glen Chua has been named the winner of The Walrus Travel Photography Contest sponsored by Aeroplan. Chua’s entry, “Cyclists and Pedestrians in Guwahati, India,” will be published in the January/February 2012 special double winter issue of The Walrus magazine. Chua and his guest will attend The Walrus Foundation’s annual gala in Toronto in January with gala chair Rupert Duchesne, president and chief executive officer of Aimia, Aeroplan’s parent company. As the winner, Chua will receive 100,000 Aeroplan Miles courtesy of Aeroplan.
There were over 3,500 images entered in The Walrus Travel Photography Contest from which contest judges — The Walrus art director Brian Morgan and world-renowned photographer Edward Burtynsky — selected a short list of ten images. Chua’s image was chosen as the winner from the short list by a large-scale public vote at www.walrusmagazine.com/aeroplan.
“It was hard to pick our ten short-listed photos, but we immediately liked this image,” said Burtynsky. “It has great depth and structure. It’s very painterly.”
“This photo is poetic, well-crafted, and packed with cinematic narrative details,” said Morgan. “Glen has brought back a grounded and honest image of India that makes you want to drop everything and travel there.”
The January/February special double winter issue of The Walrus magazine will be on newsstands on December 5, 2011, and will include Chua’s image.
The winner and nine runners-up are showcased online in a custom-built gallery at www.walrusmagazine.com/aeroplan.
ABOUT THE WALRUS FOUNDATION: The Walrus Foundation is a charitable non-profit organization with an educational mandate to promote public debate on matters vital to our country. The Foundation is dedicated to supporting Canadian writers, artists, readers, education, ideas, and debate. We achieve these goals by publishing The Walrus magazine ten times a year; producing debates, leadership dinners, salons, and other events across the country; publishing original digital content of a high standard at walrusmagazine.com; developing Walrus TV; and embarking on strategic partnerships with public and private entities. We also run an intensive internship program training the next generation of leaders of media, the arts, development, and digital content.
About Aeroplan: Aeroplan, Canada’s premier coalition loyalty program, is owned by Groupe Aeroplan Inc., doing business as Aimia, a global leader in loyalty management. Aeroplan’s millions of members earn Aeroplan Miles with its growing network of over 75 world-class partners, representing more than 150 brands in the financial, retail, and travel sectors. In 2010, over 2 million rewards were issued to members including more than 1.4 million flights on Air Canada and Star Alliance carriers which offer travel to more than 1,000 destinations worldwide. In addition to flights, members also have access to over 800 exciting specialty, merchandise, hotel, car rental, and experiential rewards.
For more information, please contact: Shelley Ambrose; co-publisher, The Walrus, executive director, The Walrus Foundation; 416-971-5004, ext. 236
The Walrus comes to High Performance Rodeo
The Walrus Talks in Calgary on Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Calgary/Toronto — November 16, 2011 — This January, Enbridge is bringing The Walrus Foundation and The Walrus magazine to Calgary’s High Performance Rodeo for The Walrus Talks — an evening of lively, thought-provoking talks on The Art of the City. The Walrus Talks will take place at the Flanagan Theatre (Theatre Junction Grand) on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, and will feature ten speakers, including: Joseph Boyden on The Art of Community, Edward Burtynsky on The Art of the Image, Douglas Coupland on The Art of Innovation, Mark Kingwell on The Art of Play, Lisa Moore on The Art of The Story, Noah Richler on The Art of Culture, Chris Turner on The Art of Public Space, Aritha van Herk on The Art of History, and Mayor Naheed Nenshi on The Art of the City.
“The Walrus is dedicated to encouraging conversations about matters vital to Canadians, and discussions about cities are a major part of that,” said Shelley Ambrose, executive director of The Walrus Foundation and co-publisher of The Walrus magazine. “Calgary’s High Performance Rodeo is a terrific showcase for arts and culture, and we’re thrilled to be part of it, and grateful to Enbridge for making it possible.”
Erin O’Connor, executive director and managing producer of the High Performance Rodeo agrees, “Here at One Yellow Rabbit, we strive to create a more civil, interesting, and stimulating society that is thoughtful, life-loving, and fun. Thanks to Enbridge for allowing us the incredible opportunity to present The Walrus Talks in the 2012 High Performance Rodeo. We are incredibly excited about this event!”
For more information or to book an interview, contact: David Leonard, The Walrus Foundation, 416-971-5004 x222, david.leonard@walrusmagazine.com or Todd Hawkwood and Brad Walker, Bottom Line Productions, 403-567-1507, todd@bottomlinepro.com and brad@bottomlinepro.com.
For ticket information, please visit: hprodeo.ca.
The Walrus recognized for excellence at the ADCC awards
April’s “orange” cover wins gold
Toronto — November 4, 2011 — The Walrus is delighted to be recognized for excellence at the Advertising Design Club of Canada Awards. The ceremony was held on November 3rd, where The Walrus received gold in the covers category for our April 2011 issue featuring a solid orange background with black text reading, “This magazine contains an essay on freedom by a Canadian convicted of murder.“
The cover was designed by Mathieu Lavoie and commissioned by art director of The Walrus, Brian Morgan. “The cover is the reader’s first experience when they encounter the magazine. We knew we needed a striking cover for such a striking piece of writing,” said Morgan. “The Walrus is always pleased to win these awards, but these awards really recognize the wonderful artists that contribute to our magazine, and we’re so grateful to have them,” added Morgan.
The Walrus is published ten times a year by the charitable non-profit Walrus Foundation.
For more information or to book an interview, contact: David Leonard, The Walrus Foundation, 416-971-5004 x222, david.leonard@walrusmagazine.com
The December 2011 issue of The Walrus
On national newsstands November 7, 2011
Toronto — November 2, 2011 — The December issue of The Walrus hits newsstands on November 7, with “Kidnapped,” a major excerpt from Canadian diplomat Robert Fowler’s new memoir, A Season in Hell. In December 2008, Fowler, a fellow Canadian diplomat, and their driver were kidnapped by al Qaeda in Nigeria. Readers of The Walrus get an advance look at the harrowing tale of Fowler’s 130 hellish days in the Sahara Desert. Long-awaited by Canadian readers, and we’re thrilled to have it as this month’s cover story.
Also in the December issue, Tom Jokinen gives us an outsider’s insider view of the Canadian Opera Company’s production of Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos. “The trouble, for me,” Jokinen writes, “is opera’s operaness.” Though he knows nothing of opera when he begins, he finds himself appearing on-stage in the production, and in this witty and thoughtful piece, he reflects on his relationship, for better or worse, with opera and the arts in general.
The issue also features an in-depth piece on fracking by award-winning writer Chris Wood. “A Rock and a Hard Place” investigates the controversy surrounding this type of extraction of fossil fuels. As Wood points out, while fracking has become a very useful process for the energy industry, this method of extraction has also raised environmental concerns, resulting in a dilemma of priorities for the public and the energy industry.
The December issue also looks at the upcoming Christmas season with Derek McCormack’s essay “Black Christmas.” McCormack explores the similarities between Christmas and Halloween throughout history, and relates them to his own experiences. He incorporates film, classic holiday stories, and the characters these tales present to explore if these two holidays are as different as you might think.
Also, “Going for Baroque,” Shannon Proudfoot on the debate surrounding the National Gallery of Canada’s “new” Caravaggio; how Arcade Fire redefined Montreal; Jonathan Graham’s profile of a Canadian leader in the Scottish separatist movement; Alcoholics Anonymous goes online; and The Walrus Reads — seven books you need to know about.
The Walrus is published ten times a year by the charitable non-profit Walrus Foundation.
For more information or to book an interview, contact: David Leonard, The Walrus Foundation, 416-971-5004 x222, david.leonard@walrusmagazine.com
Walrusmagazine.com wins prestigious Canadian Online Publishing Awards
Our website collects one gold, one silver, and two finalist prizes
Toronto — October 25, 2011 — The Walrus Foundation is delighted to announce today that it has won multiple awards at the Canadian Online Publishing Awards. The awards, which are produced by the publishers of Masthead, have recognized walrusmagazine.com in the red (consumer) category with gold for Best Overall Companion Website and silver for Best Use of Social Media. The website has also been recognized as a finalist for Best Blog and Best Web Design.
“These awards mean so much to us,” said online editor Matthew McKinnon. “We strive to make the website both a suitable online partner to The Walrus and, by its own right, a rewarding destination for thoughtful and curious readers everywhere. Our victories are a testament to the writers, artists, and thinkers who help walrusmagazine.com fulfill The Walrus Foundation’s educational mandate.”
For more information about the Canadian Online Publishing Awards, please visit: canadianonlinepublishingawards.com.
Walrusmagazine.com is the online companion to The Walrus. The website exists to broaden the scope, reach, and reputation of the magazine and The Walrus Foundation. The site hosts virtually complete archives of every issue of The Walrus; its publishing schedule echoes the magazine’s newsstand rotation. In addition, walrusmagazine.com is home to: The Walrus Blog; The Walrus Podcast; online exclusives including supplementary interviews, image galleries, desktop wallpapers, and multimedia content; notices for upcoming Walrus Foundation events; and more.
For more information or to book an interview, contact: David Leonard, The Walrus Foundation, 416-971-5004 x222, david.leonard@walrusmagazine.com
Join The Walrus Foundation and The Toronto Project on Soapbox
Make your voice part of an exciting event: TD Presents The Walrus Toronto Project Debate at the AGO
Toronto — October 7, 2011 — On Wednesday, October 12, The Walrus Foundation — in partnership with The Toronto Project, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Ryerson University, and TD, has organized a day of conversations about Toronto. The day begins at the AGO’s Baillie Court with a city-builders’ symposium at which eighty city leaders from many different sectors will gather to talk about the past, present, and future of the city. This invitation-only forum will include many of Toronto’s leading voices, and will cover the key issues facing the city today.
That conversation will continue into the evening with TD Presents The Walrus Toronto Project Debate at the AGO — a marquee public event that is already completely sold out. This debate — “Be it Resolved That Toronto Will Never Be Beautiful” — will feature architect Jack Diamond, columnist John Barber, professor (and Walrus magazine fiction editor) Nick Mount, and writer Stephen Marche, and will be moderated by broadcaster Amanda Lang.
Because The Walrus Foundation has a mandate to provide a forum for vital conversations, we’ve worked with our partners at The Toronto Project to develop a way for you to be included in the conversation — wherever you are — and are inviting you to join in The Toronto Project’s Soapbox site.
This is an online place where this discussion has already started. Based on the cover story in the November 2011 issue of The Walrus — “How Toronto Lost Its Groove” by John Lorinc — the Soapbox site is ready for your ideas, your comments, your votes on what is important. The discussion starts now, continues during the symposium and debate and will live on long after. Let your voice be heard and see what others are saying.
Soapbox, produced by Hitsend.ca, is a new online platform for community-based change that allows everybody to get their ideas into the hands of decision makers. Each user can post or comment on an idea or question, and interact with other users who are doing the same.
We’re excited about being able to kick start and continue this conversation on Soapbox’s groundbreaking new platform, and we hope that you will be too. Please click here to join in this conversation about Toronto.
Once you arrive, simply click “sign up” to create an account (or connect Soapbox to your Facebook account), and then join us in the community. For cities to develop, they need great ideas, and we know that you have some. Share them on Soapbox now!
For more information or to book an interview, contact: David Leonard, The Walrus Foundation, 416-971-5004 x222, david.leonard@walrusmagazine.com
The November 2011 issue of The Walrus
On newsstands October 10, 2011
Toronto — September 27, 2011 — The November issue of The Walrus magazine launches on October 10 with a feature cover story on Canada’s largest city, Toronto. Marking the first anniversary of Mayor Rob Ford’s term in office, celebrated Toronto writer John Lorinc examines “How Toronto Lost Its Groove.” Lorinc looks at the city from several key angles (including transit, governance, immigration, architecture, culture, and more) and examines some of the historical choices in politics and planning that have brought Canada’s key economic driver to its current diminished state.
Lorinc’s piece is the inspiration behind the inaugural TD Presents The Walrus Toronto Project Debate at the AGO on October 12. A public audience will participate in a debate featuring Jack Diamond, Amanda Lang, John Barber, Stephen Marche, Matt Galloway, Nick Mount, Denise Balkissoon, Albert Schultz, Yvonne Bambrick, and more at the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Baillie Court on the following: “Be It Resolved That Toronto Will Never Be Beautiful.” For more information or for a media pass, please visit walrusmagazine.com/ago or email david.leonard@walrusmagazine.com
The November issue of The Walrus also features a stunning visual essay on the lungs of the world, Canada’s boreal forest, by renowned photographer Eamon Mac Mahon. Mac Mahon presents the “Amazon of the North” in all of its splendour, from its pristine northern lakes and varied forests to the woodland caribou who live there. He also photographs sites of mining, forestry, and industry, showing how those activities are changing the face of the world’s largest terrestrial carbon storehouse. The Walrus Foundation would like to thank the Canadian Boreal Initiative for its generous support of this piece.
Also in the November issue of The Walrus: Daniel Baird profiles current Massey lecturer Adam Gopnik; six new commissioned works from Valérie Blass as part of RBC’s Visual Art Project; novelist Stephen Marche breaks down “The Meaning of Hockey”; Adele Weder on the challenges of being a slob in a modernist home; a stand-up comedian helps Vancouver-based NGOs to be funny; unpublished fiction by Giller-nominated Sarah Selecky; and much more.
The Walrus is published ten times a year by the charitable non-profit Walrus Foundation.
For more information or to book an interview, contact: David Leonard, The Walrus Foundation, 416-971-5004 x222, david.leonard@walrusmagazine.com
The October 2011 issue of The Walrus
On newsstands September 12, 2011
Toronto — August 29, 2011 — On September 12, the October issue of The Walrus hits newsstands with a cover story by Chris Turner that asks if Canada’s farms can keep feeding us. As demand for cheap food grows, farmers must find new ways to keep up with the needs of Canadians, while maintaining a profit and, in turn, their livelihood. Turner examines the ways farmers have made their production better, faster, and more efficient; how they attempt to conquer their growing challenges; and what this means for Canada’s farming industry.
In addition, Paul Wilson investigates Egypt, eight months after the revolution in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. In his firsthand eyewitness account, we follow Wilson through Cairo and learn what locals believe democracy means for Egypt and hear how they feel about the fall of Hosni Mubarak. Wilson discovers an uncertainty and anxiety about how democracy will be achieved, and where it will lead the country and its citizens.
Also in the October issue is Andy Lamey’s article about Canada’s policies around refugees seeking asylum and how those policies compare with those of other countries. Canada’s asylum policies offer a promising alternative to turning away refugees, an alternative that other countries could emulate. Nonetheless, Lamey believes Canadian laws still have room for improvement.
The October issue also features Kevin Chong’s story about Bao Bei, a modern Chinese restaurant in Vancouver that serves updated versions of traditional Chinese dishes; Adam Sternbergh looks at the events of 9/11 ten years later; Craille Maguire Gillies discusses the possibility of in vitro meat; David Marchese finds that students at a New York college have an esoteric interest in Canada; and Jeet Heer talks about the tradition of cannibalism in Canadian literature.
The Walrus is published ten times a year by the charitable non-profit Walrus Foundation.
For more information or to book an interview, contact: David Leonard, The Walrus Foundation, 416-971-5004 x222, david.leonard@walrusmagazine.com
The September 2011 issue of The Walrus
On newsstands August 15, 2011
Toronto — August 15, 2011 — Today, the September issue of The Walrus hits newsstands, with a cover story by Michael Harris that describes the thirty-year reign of HIV in gay communities. Seen as a death sentence in the eighties and early nineties, new treatment plans and better drugs have made living with HIV possible and, suggests Harris, more dangerous. Harris points to statistics and suggests that the epidemic is unabated. He also suggests a shift in education; a focus on treatment rather than prevention means that gay men are not taught to minimize risk as they once were and are less “concerned” about “slipping up during sex.”
Also in the September issue, Sandra Martin writes about a lifetime of trans-Canada road trips in “Goin’ Down the Road.” Summertime hours in a car with your family are, according to Martin, much more Canadian than time in a canoe. She explains how she inherited the tradition from her parents, has shared it with her spouse, and has passed it down to her children.
Also in the September issue of The Walrus: Lisa Gregoire profiles Tarek Fatah, Canada’s face of progressive Islam; Timothy Caulfield explores “scienceploitation” and how consumers are sold everything from anti-aging creams to stem-cell therapies; Arno Kopecky writes about the staggering growth of one of Canada’s most successful tree planters, in the face of climate change; John Lorinc raises the curtain on a new program at Ottawa’s Carleton University that will certify political aides, the unsung heroes and fall guys behind elected officials; and much more.
Voting is now open at http:walrusmagazine.com/aeroplan for The Walrus Amateur Travel Photography Contest, sponsored by Aeroplan. The public will choose the winner from a shortlist of ten photos selected — from over 3,600 entries — by acclaimed photographer Edward Burtynsky and the art director of The Walrus, Brian Morgan. Voting remains open until August 26, 2011. The winning photo will be published in The Walrus, and the winning photographer will receive 100,000 Aeroplan reward miles, courtesy of Aeroplan, as well as two tickets to the sold-out Walrus Foundation Gala to be held in Toronto on January 18, 2012.
The Walrus is published ten times a year by the charitable non-profit Walrus Foundation.
For more information or to book an interview, contact: David Leonard, The Walrus Foundation, 416-971-5004 x222, david.leonard@walrusmagazine.com
Canadians to choose winner of The Walrus Travel Photography Contest sponsored by Aeroplan
Public voting now open at walrusmagazine.com
Toronto/Montreal — July 15, 2011 — Voting is now open on The Walrus Travel Photography Contest sponsored by Aeroplan. Beginning today, you can choose the contest winner from a shortlist of ten travel photos — selected from over 3,500 entries — by acclaimed photographer Edward Burtynsky and The Walrus Foundation’s art director, Brian Morgan. The winning photograph will be published in The Walrus magazine’s special January /February 2012 double issue along with a short essay. The winner will also receive 100,000 Aeroplan Miles courtesy of Aeroplan, and an invitation for two to The Walrus Foundation Gala on January 18, 2012.
“It has been amazing to see so many submissions from across Canada, both for their diversity and quality,” said Brian Morgan. “Ed and I had such a difficult time creating this shortlist of ten photographs because of the talent and skill of the photographers, and we’re excited to see which photo Canadians choose as their favourite.”
Voting for The Walrus Foundation Travel Photography Contest Sponsored by Aeroplan will run until August 26, 2011 at www.walrusmagazine.com/aeroplan. The winner will be announced in December 2011, and the runners up will be showcased in a custom-built gallery at www.walrusmagazine.com/aeroplan.
- July 1, 2011: Judges Edward Burtynsky and Brian Morgan release shortlist of ten photographs
- July 15, 2011: Public voting for the contest opens
- August 26, 2011: Public voting ends, and the winning photo is selected
- December 5, 2011: The winning photo will be published in The Walrus magazine
- January 18, 2012: The winning amateur photographer and a guest will attend the 4th Annual Walrus Foundation Gala
ABOUT THE WALRUS FOUNDATIONThe Walrus Foundation is a charitable non-profit organization with a mandate to promote public discourse on matters vital to our country. The Foundation is dedicated to supporting Canadian writers, artists, readers, education, ideas, and debate. First and foremost, we achieve these goals by publishing The Walrus magazine ten times a year. We also produce public debates, leadership events, and run an intensive internship program training the next generation of leaders of media and the arts.
For more information about The Walrus Foundation or The Walrus magazine, please visit www.walrusmagazine.com.
About AeroplanAeroplan, Canada’s premier coalition loyalty program, is owned by Groupe Aeroplan Inc., a global leader in loyalty management. Aeroplan’s millions of members earn Aeroplan Miles with its growing network of over seventy-five world-class partners, representing more than 150 brands in the financial, retail, and travel sectors. In 2010, over 2 million rewards were issued to members including more than 1.3 million flights on Air Canada and Star Alliance carriers which offer travel to more than 1,000 destinations worldwide. In addition to flights, members also have access to over 800 exciting specialty, merchandise, hotel, car rental, and experiential rewards.
For more information about Aeroplan, please visit www.aeroplan.com or www.groupeaeroplan.com.
For any additional requests, please contact: David Leonard, The Walrus Foundation, 416-971-5004 x222, david.leonard@walrusmagazine.com
The Walrus leads way with ten at the NMAs
Our staff and contributors win six gold awards and four silver awards
Toronto — June 10, 2011 — The Walrus magazine is delighted to have received ten National Magazine Awards — more than any other publication — at tonight’s gala awards ceremony in Toronto. Our contributors won six gold awards and four silver awards, while also receiving twenty-five honourable mentions. Among these awards, Matthieu Aikins — a first time contributor to The Walrus — was named Best New Creative Talent, and walrusmagazine.com was awarded Best Digital Design.
“The National Magazine Awards are important to us,” said editor and co-publisher John Macfarlane, “because they recognize the incredible talents of the freelance writers, photographers, artists, illustrators, and editors with whom we are so fortunate to work. Their efforts are instrumental in helping us create a magazine that contributes to the Canadian conversation by supporting important ideas and debate.”
For the fifth straight year, The Walrus magazine received more nominations than any other publication, and continues to be one of Canada’s most-honoured magazines, having won more awards since its inception in 2003 than any other Canadian periodical. With tonight’s six gold awards and four silver awards, The Walrus has now earned a total of fifty-three golds and twenty-seven silvers at the National Magazine Awards, as well as 186 honourable mentions.
On behalf of staff, interns, supporters, and readers, The Walrus congratulates all of this year’s winners and nominees. The July/August Summer Reading issue of The Walrus features a beautiful cover illustration by Jillian Tamaki; a playful writing challenge from Sarah Selecky, Kathleen Winter, Alexi Zentner, Michael Lista, and Damian Rogers; a stunning gatefold featuring Joanne Tod’s portraits of the 157 Canadians who have died in Afghanistan; and much more. It will be on newsstands on Monday, June 13.
Gold
Arts & Entertainment
“My Dad, the Movie, and Me” by Noah Richler
Best Digital Design
walrusmagazine.com by Matthew McKinnon
Best New Creative Talent
“Last Stand in Kandahar” by Matthieu Aikins
Essays
“A 10 Percent World” by J.B. MacKinnon
Photojournalism & Photo Essay
“Dark Element” by Don Weber
Politics & Public Interest
“Life on the Instalment Plan” by Marian Botsford Fraser
Silver
Best Short Feature
“Aftershock” by Chris Jones
Humour
“The Air Strip” by Pasha Malla
Investigative Reporting
“The Human Egg Trade” by Alison Motluk
One of a Kind
“A Tale of Two Cities” by Gary Stephen Ross
honourable Mention
Arts & Entertainment
“Mister Nice Guy” by Jeet Heer
“What Tom Thomson Saw” by Ross King
Best Multi-Media Feature
“Lucy Hardin’s Missing Period” by Stephen Marche, Jared Bland, and Matthew McKinnon
Essays
“The Shout Doctrine” by Mark Kingwell
Health & Medicine
“The Enemy Inside” by Daniel Baird
“Approximate Directions to a Burial” by Dave Cameron
“The Human Egg Trade” by Alison Motluk
Illustration
“Quieter Revolutions” by Mathieu Lavoie
“The Enemy Inside” by Balint Zsako
“Hard Currency” by Marlena Zuber
Investigative Reporting
“Last Stand in Kandahar” by Matthieu Aikins
One of a Kind
“Pravda and Other Words for Truth” by Medeine Tribinevicius
Personal Journalism
“Approximate Directions to a Burial” by Dave Cameron
“The Flight Album” by Kaitlin Fontana
“My Dad, the Movie, and Me” by Noah Richler
Politics & Public Interest
“Last Stand in Kandahar” by Matthieu Aikins
“The Stranger Within” by Ron Graham
“The Human Egg Trade” by Alison Motluk
“The Last Great Water Fight” by Chris Wood
Profiles
“Dragon Done” by Trevor Cole
“The Unrepentant Whore” by Michael Harris
“Big Game Hunter” by Chris Jones
Science, Technology & the Environment
“The New Grand Tour” by Chris Turner
Sports & Recreation
“Faster, Higher, Sneakier” by Alex Hutchinson
Spot Illustration
“The Long Decline” by Neil Doshi
The Walrus is published ten times annually by the charitable, non-profit Walrus Foundation. The Walrus Foundation has an educational mandate to support writers, artists, readers, and intelligent debate on matters vital to Canadians.
For more information or to book an interview, contact: David Leonard, The Walrus Foundation, 416-971-5004 x222, david.leonard@walrusmagazine.com
The July/August 2011 issue of The Walrus
On newsstands June 13, 2011
Toronto — May 31, 2011 — The July/August issue of The Walrus features a remarkable visual essay by contemporary Canadian artist Joanne Tod. In this special tribute to fallen Canadians, Tod has created a riveting portrait collection of the 157 Canadians who have died during our military mission in Afghanistan. This three-year project was inspired by old photographs and letters from one of Tod’s uncles who was killed in Sicily in 1944, and appears in print in its entirety for the first time. The pieces are painted on six-by-five-inch birch panels, offering a salient reminder as Canada marks the official end of our part in the Afghan combat mission that war can “conform to any location.” This special gatefold section in The Walrus is presented by Bennett Jones LLP, and features reproductions of all 157 of Tod’s arresting portraits.
In addition to appearing in The Walrus magazine, Joanne Tod’s portraits of fallen Canadians will be published in large format — and made available to download — at walrusmagazine.com. The website will present individual comment fields with each painting, providing loved ones and supporters the opportunity to publicly memorialize the soldiers as part of a lasting tribute.
Our July/August issue is also our annual Summer Reading issue, and the stunning cover art is a new work by renowned Canadian illustrator and graphic artist Jillian Tamaki. Tamaki is one of the illustration world’s brightest stars. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, National Geographic, Penguin Books, Wired, and the Washington Post. She has generously created a limited edition set of twenty-four signed prints of her cover illustration which will be available for sale via walrusmagazine.com.
For this year’s Summer Reading section, Canadian writers Sarah Selecky, Kathleen Winter, Alexi Zentner, Michael Lista, and Damian Rogers were each asked to establish five guidelines for composing a short story or poem. These eclectic guidelines were then swapped between the writers, and the resulting five pieces form a quirky, distinctly Canadian collection of new work by these acclaimed voices — shared for the first time in the pages of The Walrus.
Also in the July/August issue of The Walrus, long-time Liberal strategist Warren Kinsella examines the recent defeat of Michael Ignatieff and the once-mighty Liberal Party; Richard Poplak explores the struggles of elite Canadian cyclist Ryder Hesjedal; Bill Reynolds looks at how New Yorkers are exorcising the ten-year nightmare of 9/11; Anne Casselman takes readers inside the burgeoning English country dance scene; and much more.
The Walrus is published ten times a year by the charitable non-profit Walrus Foundation.
For more information or to book an interview, contact: David Leonard, The Walrus Foundation, 416-971-5004 x222, david.leonard@walrusmagazine.com
The June 2011 issue of The Walrus
On newsstands May 9, 2011
Toronto — April 28, 2011 — In the cover story of the June issue of The Walrus, senior editor Rachel Giese investigates a correlation between crime and immigration. Giese shares a 2009 international survey found that more than half of the population blames illegal immigrants for “driving up crime.” What Giese shows readers of The Walrus however is that research has consistently shown that neighbourhoods with the highest density of immigrants reflect the highest decrease in violent crime. The story contains several theories as to why this might be, but stresses one study that attributes it to “strong family bonds, commitment to education, and aversion to risk.” Instead of “subsequent generations becoming more delinquent,” she shows that with each wave of immigration, newcomers are “changing this country for the better.”
The cover story — “More Immigration, Less Crime” — is also the subject of a television mini-documentary, which is part of a new series adapted from content published in The Walrus magazine. These unique pieces will be viewable in high-definition on our newly launched Walrus TV on eqhd™. Walrus TV is a new and thrilling partnership between the charitable, non-profit Walrus Foundation and Canada’s leading all-HD broadcaster High Fidelity HDTV — which has four different channels available nationally, reaching more than 600,000 households. Walrus TV will include “More Immigration, Less Crime” and other documentaries adapted from content from The Walrus magazine in May. For more information or to subscribe to eqhd™, visit walrusmagazine.com/walrustv.
The Walrus Foundation is also proud to support National Poetry Month with the April launch of Walrus TV: Poetry on eqhd™’s sister channel, Treasure HD™. Tune in to view Walrus contributors Linda Besner, Jeff Latosik, Jacob McArthur Mooney, Damian Rogers, and Paul Vermeersch as they share their work in a series of five poetry vignettes. For more information about this new multimedia project, please visit walrusmagazine.com/walrustv.
Also in June’s issue of Canada’s best magazine, journalist John Lorinc probes the ground rules — including government initiatives, public acceptance, and possibly harmful consequences — of geoengineering in “Climate Controlled.” Environmentalists insist it is “mankind’s tragic compulsion to engineer its way out of its problems,” while supporters are dubbing it “Plan B of the climate change fight,” and a necessary precaution. Lorinc compares Canada’s minimal efforts to develop a framework unfavourably to Great Britain and the US, which have both been working toward government policies on geoengineering. He concludes that governments should “open this door” and regulate policies to keep themselves ahead of the game.
Also in the June issue, Daniel Baird meets with our man in the Vatican, Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet, to discuss whether the Church will ever be able to extricate itself from the reprehensible recesses of sexual abuse scandals; Kamal Al-Solaylee describes life after Yemen’s long-ruling dictator is out of the picture; Karen Pinchin dissects the ice-cream industry; Pasha Malla delivers a droll account of buying a home; and much more.
The Walrus is published ten times a year by the charitable non-profit Walrus Foundation.
For more information or to book an interview, contact: David Leonard, The Walrus Foundation, 416-971-5004 x222, david.leonard@walrusmagazine.com
National Magazine Awards Nominations
Our staff and contributors receive thirty-five nominations for the thirty-fourth annual National Magazine Awards
Toronto — May 2, 2011 —The Walrus Foundation is proud to announce that for the fifth straight year The Walrus magazine has received the highest number of National Magazine Award nominations. The thirty-five nominations in 2010's National Magazine Awards represents an increase from its country-leading total of thirty-three nominations at the 2009 awards. Our contributors were nominated for twenty-eight written, five visual, two online, and one special award. The winners will be announced at the thirty-fourth annual National Magazine Awards gala on June 10, 2011 in Toronto.
"We are delighted to again receive the most nominations, and are proud of the writers, journalists and artists who have been nominated," said co-publishers John Macfarlane and Shelley Ambrose. "Our contributors are key to our mandate to create public debate on matters vital to Canadians and to continue to provide a forum for the Canadian conversation."
Since its inception in 2003, The Walrus has won more National Magazine Awards than any other publication, including the 2006 award for Magazine of the Year. During that time, The Walrus has won forty-seven golds, twenty-three silvers, and one hundred sixty-one honourable mentions.
The Walrus congratulates all of our nominated contributors, listed here:
Arts & Entertainment
“Mister Nice Guy” by Jeet Heer
“What Tom Thomson Saw” by Ross King
“My Dad, the Movie, and Me” by Noah Richler
Best Digital Design
walrusmagazine.com by Matthew McKinnon
Best Multi-Media Feature
“Lucy Hardin’s Missing Period” by Stephen Marche, Jared Bland, and Matthew McKinnon
Best New Creative Talent
“Last Stand in Kandahar” by Matthieu Aikins
Best Short Feature
“Aftershock” by Chris Jones
Essays
“The Shout Doctrine” by Mark Kingwell
“A 10 Percent World” by J.B. MacKinnon
Health & Medicine
“The Enemy Inside” by Daniel Baird
“Approximate Directions to a Burial” by Dave Cameron
“The Human Egg Trade” by Alison Motluk
Humour
“The Air Strip” by Pasha Malla
Illustration
“Quieter Revolutions” by Mathieu Lavoie
“The Enemy Inside” by Balint Zsako
“Hard Currency” by Marlena Zuber
Investigative Reporting
“Last Stand in Kandahar” by Matthieu Aikins
“The Human Egg Trade” by Alison Motluk
One of a Kind
“A Tale of Two Cities” by Gary Stephen Ross
“Pravda and Other Words for Truth” by Medeine Tribinevicius
Personal Journalism
“Approximate Directions to a Burial” by Dave Cameron
“The Flight Album” by Kaitlin Fontana
“My Dad, the Movie, and Me” by Noah Richler
Photojournalism & Photo Essay
“Dark Element” by Don Weber
Politics & Public Interest
“Last Stand in Kandahar” by Matthieu Aikins
“Life on the Instalment Plan” by Marian Botsford Fraser
“The Stranger Within” by Ron Graham
“The Human Egg Trade” by Alison Motluk
“The Last Great Water Fight” by Chris Wood
Profiles
“Dragon Done” by Trevor Cole
“The Unrepentant Whore” by Michael Harris
“Big Game Hunter” by Chris Jones
Science, Technology & the Environment
“The New Grand Tour” by Chris Turner
Sports & Recreation
“Faster, Higher, Sneakier” by Alex Hutchinson
Spot Illustration
“The Long Decline” by Neil Doshi
The Walrus is published ten times annually by the charitable, non-profit Walrus Foundation. Since its inception in 2003, The Walrus has won more awards than any other Canadian periodical and continues to be Canada’s leading general interest magazine.
For more information or to book an interview, contact: David Leonard, The Walrus Foundation, 416-971-5004 x222, david.leonard@walrusmagazine.com
High Fidelity HDTV and The Walrus Foundation announce strategic content partnership
Canada’s most honoured magazine coming this fall to eqhd© and Treasure HD© as Walrus TV
Toronto — April 20, 2011 — Canada’s leading all-HD broadcaster and The Walrus Foundation, the charitable non-profit organization and publisher of The Walrus, Canada’s national magazine of ideas, have announced a cross-platform collaboration that will result in iconic new programming called Walrus TV.
The new programming, currently in production, will be presented every month on eqhd and Treasure HD, two of High Fidelity’s suite of smart, refreshing and beautiful channels. These original programs will also be made available by The Walrus Foundation on a dedicated webpage — www.walrusmagazine.com/walrustv — and via the interactive tablet edition of The Walrus magazine.
“The Walrus offers sophisticated, in-depth journalism on topics ranging from politics and the economy to technology and the arts. The idea behind Walrus TV is to bring the intelligence and depth of the monthly magazine to a new format. Because our channels reflect similar objectives — to engage and stimulate people who like substance in what they read and watch — the alignment of content and channel is perfect," said Ken Murphy, partner and co-founder of High Fidelity HDTV Inc.
The first programming for Treasure HD is Walrus TV: Poetry, a series of five short up-close-and-personal performances of poems from the poets themselves, each of which The Walrus has also published in the print magazine. For eqhd, a roster of mini-documentaries on subjects including immigration and crime, mosques in Canada, and portraits of military personnel are based on stories from the magazine. Each provides fascinating behind-the-scenes insight on their respective topics.
“Walrus TV contains the essence of the Walrus brand — brought to high-definition life for the television medium. It’s an exciting new initiative for us; not only do the stories gain another perspective,” said Shelley Ambrose, co-publisher of The Walrus and executive director of the charitable, non-profit Walrus Foundation, “we’ll reach new audiences that help us deliver our commitment to public debate on matters vital to our country.”
About The Walrus Foundation
The Walrus Foundation is dedicated to supporting Canadian writers, artists, readers, education, and ideas. First and foremost, the Foundation achieves these goals by publishing The Walrus magazine ten times a year. The Foundation also produces public debates, leadership events, and runs an intensive internship program training the next generation of leaders of media and the arts.
About High Fidelity HDTV
High Fidelity HDTV is an independent broadcaster of four fabulous HD channels, Oasis HD (Love Nature), Treasure HD (Music and Art), eqhd (Ideas and Cultures) and radX (Adventure). These premium channels are unlike anything else on television, offering smart, refreshing, and beautiful programs to curious viewers who love great stories. All channels are widely distributed across Canada on cable, satellite and IPTV.
For more information about The Walrus Foundation, contact: David Leonard, 416-971-5004 x222, david.leonard@walrusmagazine.com
For more information about High Fidelity HDTV Inc., contact: Andrew Irwin, 416-646-4446, andrewirwin@hifihdtv.ca
The May 2011 issue of The Walrus
On newsstands April 11, 2011
Toronto — March 31, 2011 — In the May 2011 issue of The Walrus, best-selling author Lisa Moore profiles modern Newfoundland. According to Moore, herself a Newfoundlander, “the most defining characteristic of life in Newfoundland has been the need to leave coupled with the desire to stay.” She describes the necessity of balancing the constant commute for work, while maintaining a culture “steeped in cosmopolitan travel.” In the face of the oil boom, and the sudden departure of Danny Williams, Moore addresses common misconceptions of Newfoundland and its people. This Newfoundland, she argues, is “neither one nor the other, but something entirely new.”
“To the Exclusion of All Others” by historian Elizabeth Abbott delves into the question of legalizing polygamy in Canada and the possible consequences for our legal, financial, and administrative frameworks. She draws parallels between the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and Islam. Examining the status of women in a polygamous union, Abbott talks about the social safety net and protection that a polygamous union offers a woman, but also the myriad tensions it creates regarding everything from jealousies to the highly diluted division of income and assets.
With the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement as background, journalist Arno Kopecky scrutinizes Colombia as a suitable partner: a country which cannot be considered a “burgeoning untapped market,” as nearly half its population is living under the poverty line. Arno reveals paramilitary forces clearing farmers from resource-rich land, and an explosion of displaced people — the desplazados — who have no choice but to flee after receiving death threats or worse. Most of the displaced receive very little, if any, compensation, and are often left to the mercy of the city’s gangs or the “3,500 child gangster-soldiers,” with terrifying results.
The May issue of The Walrus also features a less than flattering review of our census formats by Allison Martell; Emily Landau’s look at whether or not Nova Scotia is putting its underwater wrecks and treasures at risk of extinction; a witty first-hand account of the significance of the oath to Queen Elizabeth II made by new Canadian citizens, and much, much more.
The Walrus is published ten times a year by the charitable non-profit Walrus Foundation.
For more information or to book an interview, contact: David Leonard, The Walrus Foundation, 416-971-5004 ext. 222, david.leonard@walrusmagazine.com
Enhancing the cultural life of a city: If you build it, will they come?
The new Walrus McGill Debate, featuring Simon Brault and Witold Rybczynski, to be moderated by Nathalie Petrowski
Montreal — March 24, 2011 — The Walrus Foundation, McGill University, and the Segal Centre are pleased to announce the launch of a new annual public debate presented by TD. The debate, intended to encourage civic engagement and city building in Montreal, will be held on Wednesday, March 30, 2011.
This timely exchange will feature Simon Brault (author of No Culture, No Future, vice-chair of the Canada Council for the Arts, CEO of the National Theatre School, and president of Culture Montréal) and University of Pennsylvania professor Witold Rybczynski (author of Makeshift Metropolis, and Slate’s architecture critic). In what promises to be a lively event, they will debate and dissect city building and the future of culture in Montreal above and beyond the Quartier des Spectacles partnership.
Well-known journalist and La Presse columnist Nathalie Petrowski will moderate the debate.
“As publishers of Canada’s best national magazine, we are committed to public debate,” said Shelley Ambrose, co-publisher of The Walrus and executive director of the charitable, non-profit Walrus Foundation. “This new series helps bring the pages of The Walrus magazine to the stage, and will be a starting point for the conversations that help make cities great.” The Walrus has used the same format in other cities including Calgary, Vancouver, Ottawa, and Toronto, where topics have included globalization, Arctic sovereignty, contemporary art, and health care spending. “We’re very excited to produce debates in Montreal that will focus on the glories and challenges of island life in one of the world’s best cities,” Ambrose added.
“The Walrus shares our commitment to public education, and we’re thrilled with that we can partner to bring these topical debates to our students, faculty, and the people of Montreal,” said Christopher Manfredi, Dean of Arts of McGill University.
“Dedicated to building bridges through the performing arts, the Segal Centre is proud to join The Walrus and McGill as intellectual partners in culture, in providing a meeting place for ideas, intercultural dialogue, and for all culture-loving communities,” Manon Gauthier, CEO of the Segal Centre, said.
“Every community needs a thriving arts and culture scene. At TD, we are committed to supporting arts and culture-related initiatives that expose our youth to music and that bring families together to enjoy the performing arts,” says Paul Lelièvre, vice-president, Metro District West, TD Canada Trust. “We are pleased to support the Walrus debate as part of our ongoing commitment to making a difference and contributing to the well-being of the Montreal community.”
- Who: Debaters: Simon Brault (bio) and Witold Rybczynski (bio); moderator: Nathalie Petrowski
- What: The Walrus McGill Annual Debate
- Where: Segal Centre for the Performing Arts, 5170 ch. de la Côte-Ste-Catherine, Montreal
- When: Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 6 p.m. Admission costs $15 general, $10 students
- Online: Walrusmagazine.com Event Guide
Event information
Taylor Tower, Segal Centre
ttower@segalcentre.org
tel: 514-739-2301 ext. 8363
Media inquiries
Tamarah Feder, McGill Media Relations
tamarah.feder@mcgill.ca
tel: 514-398-6754
Aeroplan and The Walrus Foundation Announce an Amateur Travel Photography Contest
Now online at walrusmagazine.com
Toronto/Montreal — January 26, 2011 — The Walrus Foundation and Canada’s premier coalition loyalty program, Aeroplan, are proud to announce the launch of The Walrus Foundation Amateur Travel Photography Contest. Sponsored by Aeroplan, this nationwide contest will be judged by acclaimed photographer Edward Burtynsky, The Walrus magazine’s art director Brian Morgan, and the Canadian public. The contest is open to Canadian residents, excluding Quebec, and the winning photo will be published in The Walrus magazine. The winning amateur photographer will also receive 100,000 Aeroplan Miles courtesy of Aeroplan, and an invitation for two to The Walrus Foundation Gala in January 2012. In addition, a full gallery of photographs from the runners-up will be showcased at www.walrusmagazine.com/aeroplan.
“This is a great opportunity for photography fans and travelers alike to get out and snap photos of their favourite destinations, unique landscapes and off the beaten path locations or even be creative in their own city,” said David Klein, Vice President, Marketing, Aeroplan. “For the last few years, through our partnership with the Art Gallery of Ontario, we’ve been trying to raise the profile of photography with the Grange Prize. Aeroplan is thrilled to be a part of this contest and to be working with The Walrus Foundation to encourage participation in this important art form.”
“The Walrus Foundation is a keen supporter of Canadian artists, both established and emerging,” said The Walrus Foundation’s executive director and co-publisher Shelley Ambrose. “We’re delighted to be working with Aeroplan and Edward Burtynsky to showcase Canadian photographers and their unique perspectives on our world.”
The Walrus Travel Photography contest begins today with the release of the March issue of The Walrus, and officially closes on May 31, 2011. Judges will select a shortlist of ten photos between May 31 and July 1, 2011. Throughout the summer of 2011, readers of The Walrus magazine, walrusmagazine.com, and visitors to www.walrusmagazine.com/aeroplan will be asked to vote for their favourite photo. The winning photo will be selected on August 27, 2011, and will be featured along with a short essay in the special double winter January/February issue of The Walrus.
- January 19, 2011: The Walrus Foundation Amateur Travel Photography Contest sponsored by Aeroplan opens
- May 31, 2011: The last day for entrants to submit their travel photos to The Walrus Foundation
- July 1, 2011: Judges Edward Burtynsky and Brian Morgan release shortlist of ten photos, and public voting opens
- August 26, 2011: Public voting ends, and the winning photo is selected
- December 5, 2011: The winning photo will be published in The Walrus magazine
- January 18, 2012: The winning amateur photographer and a guest will attend the 4th Annual Walrus Foundation Gala
For full details, including contest regulations, please visit: www.walrusmagazine.com/aeroplan.
ABOUT AEROPLAN
Aeroplan, Canada's premier coalition loyalty program, is owned by Groupe
Aeroplan Inc., a global leader in loyalty management. Aeroplan is a
long-standing patron of the arts, with a history of supporting artists
and arts initiatives across Canada. Of particular significance is the
company’s work, in partnership with the Art Gallery of Ontario,
to develop The Grange Prize for contemporary photography. Aeroplan
is committed to fostering a long-term, international dialogue about
this important art form. Aeroplan has also joined the AGO in
a three-year partnership as the Signature Partner of the Photography
Collection Program, supporting planned AGO activities
to engage visitors with photography, including special lectures and
tours.
For more information about Aeroplan, please visit www.groupaeroplan.com or www.aeroplan.com.
ABOUT THE WALRUS FOUNDATION
The Walrus Foundation is a charitable non-profit organization with a
mandate to promote public debate on matters vital to our country.
The Foundation is dedicated to supporting Canadian writers, artists,
readers, education, and ideas. First and foremost, we achieve
these goals by publishing The Walrus magazine ten times a
year. We also produce public debates, leadership events, and run an
intensive internship program training the next generation of leaders
of media and the arts.
For more information about The Walrus Foundation or The Walrus magazine, please visit www.walrusmagazine.com.
For more information, please contact:
David Leonard
The Walrus Foundation
(416) 971-5004 ext. 222
david.leonard@walrusmagazine.com
Christa Poole
Aeroplan
(416) 352-3745
christa.poole@aeroplan.com
