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Be It Resolved That Canadians Are Incapable of Preparing for Their Retirement Needs Alone
The Walrus HOOPP Luncheon Debate on Pensions
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Of Culture and Condos
Shortly before he died, the literary critic Northrop Frye foresaw an insidious cultural phenomenon: Canada’s “condominium mentality”
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On Growing Up White Trash
A writer comes to terms with the culture of her birth
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You Ask Your Father What a Lease Is
And he tells you about the geese beyond the aqueduct, how they turn the sky grey, how as a teen he never put his gun away dirty. You remember the …
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Lunar Innuendos
That bluish cataract milky with age, the moon’s grey glimpse gauzed by night Scuffed and ochreous as a child’s lost ball discovered under last December’s ice, With necrotic shadows wisping …
Read MoreAye, Robot
This appeared in the May 2012 issue.
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Stories With Legs
Danced in socks and bare feet, Crystal Pite’s edgy choreography has been dubbed the future of ballet. “Modern dance” is an outdated term. Maybe “ballet” is, too
Read MoreOf Culture and Condos
Shortly before he died, the literary critic Northrop Frye foresaw an insidious cultural phenomenon: Canada’s “condominium mentality”
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Hurricane Surfing
Nova Scotia’s free surfers search for dangerous waves—and keep them secret
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