publisher, then editor, in June 2008. John Macfarlane, former editor-in-chief of Toronto Life and publisher of Saturday Night, joined The Walrus in July 2008 as editor and co-publisher. With newly returned art director Brian Morgan, Macfarlane oversaw a revamping of the editorial and art direction of the magazine. The new Walrus was to be more consistent and current, with a "far more internally driven" process for story selection, and the reworked cover featuring illustrations that correspond to each issue's content. The Walrus soon began to receive critical acclaim: its two 2003 issues alone garnered eleven National Magazine Award nominations and three wins, and the Utne Reader awarded it the prize for best new publication in 2004. In 2006, it won the National Magazine Award for Magazine of the Year in Canada. As of April 2017, it has consistently led in the National Magazine Awards, earning a total of 70 wins and 231 nominations to date. In January 2012, High Fidelity HDTV and The Walrus announced plans to air fourteen "original high-definition documentaries" derived from content from The Walrus that had been produced since April 2011. The two companies plan on creating more documentaries in the future. On September 13, 2012, the Walrus unveiled its redesigned website. It is based on the Wordpress platform and was developed over the course of five months. Unpaid internship programme In March 2014, The Walrus was required to shut down its unpaid internship programme after the Ontario Ministry of Labour declared that its longstanding practice of not paying interns was in contravention of the Employment Standards Act. The magazine issued a statement justifying its practice of using unpaid labour, saying We have been training future leaders in media and development for ten years, and we are extremely sorry we are no longer able to provide these opportunities, which have assisted many young Ontarians—and Canadians—in bridging the gap from university to paid work and in, many cases, on to stellar careers. Since 2014, The Walrus has offered paid editorial fellowships that run six months. Recent years On December 1, 2014, Jonathan Kay replaced John Macfarlane as Editor. In October 2015, a report in Canadaland provided details of a toxic and disorganized environment at the magazine. Kay resigned as editor on May 14, 2017, following a controversy around cultural appropriation in which he dismissed Indigenous concerns about the practice. Jessica Johnson was named executive editor and creative