America the Beautiful
Reflections on the decay of the US mystique
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Maritime Monotony
Where the excitement never starts
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Shock Jock (Part II)
Part I of this play appears in the December/January issue of The Walrus #1: Great! #2: That’s fantastic! #3: Super! ED: Wow, uh… LEW: No Speckle Lake. ED: Uh, okay. …
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Mood Swing
In Montreal, as rain pelted downtown streets and pedestrians huddled under umbrellas, the morning of October 1, 2006, unfolded with a certain restlessness. At the finer hotels — the Ritz-Carlton, …
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Come On Down!
A Winnipeg boy waits for the payoff on The Price is Right
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Let There Be Light
An Alpine town reflects on plans to brighten things up
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Sea-Crossed Lovers
The story of a mixed Turkish-Greek romance builds a bridge across the Aegean
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Everybody Comes to Kim’s
The bomb may be straining relations on the Korean peninsula, but at least these diners will always have Beijing
Read MoreImagining the Future
Why the cynics are wrong
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Hear No Evil, Write No Lies
Maher Arar was portrayed as a sly fox, a predator working with al-Qaeda. He turned out to be a hare, an innocent family man
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