Fatima Syed

Can Seven-Minute Speeches Save a Magazine?

Can Seven-Minute Speeches Save a Magazine?

How The Walrus Talks series is helping to keep a venerable publication alive

A heavy silence takes over the room as Sylvia Maracle, executive director of the Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres, takes a pause during her seven-minute speech. “You need to make sure that when people arrive they understand that some of the trauma they have left is the trauma that exists here for the original people […]