Alain Pilon | The Walrus

Feature / June 2015

How High-Interest Lenders Prey on Low-Income Canadians

June 19, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Alain Pilon

The payday-loan industry is built on taking advantage of our most vulnerable

Cartoon of a policeman standing on the left, and a man walking on the right. The man on the right has a think bubble coming out of him that is in rainbow

Feature / June 2014

Outcasts

June 26, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Alain Pilon

Fifty years ago, a gay activist met a Maclean’s journalist. Together, they helped start a revolution

Cartoon of a man's head with "citizenship," "community," "membership," and "taxes" written in his brain

Feature / March 2014

Happy Returns

March 3, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Alain Pilon

Why you should look forward to tax time

Feature / May 2012

Lost on the Gene Map

May 12, 2012April 15, 2020 - by Alain Pilon

Scientists hoped the Human Genome Project would deliver a road map for personalized medicine. But we are still unequipped to deal with its ethical and medical implications

April 2010 / Feature

The Shout Doctrine

April 12, 2010April 15, 2020 - by Alain Pilon

What happens when political debates escalate into a culture of arguments, attack ads, and anonymous Internet assaults? A Parliament effectively shut — and shouted — down

December 2009 / Memoir

Zero Sum

December 12, 2009March 31, 2020 - by Alain Pilon

In implementing zero tolerance for sexual abuse, has the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario become a source of harm to the patients it’s trying to protect?