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Alëna Skarina

Alëna Skarina counts among her clients the Globe and Mail, the National Post, and Chatelaine.
Illustration by Alena Skarina
First Person / January/February 2016

Orifice Space

December 15, 2015April 7, 2020 - by Alëna Skarina

My life as a porn cubicle drone

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Illustration by Alëna Skarina
Memoir / November 2014

Giving Up the Ghost

October 22, 2014April 13, 2020 - by Alëna Skarina

When it comes to quitting smoking, you’re on your own

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Illustration by Alëna Skarina
April 2014 / Cities

Back to the Drafting Table

April 8, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Alëna Skarina

What Belgium can teach us about better architecture

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Illustration of three birds
April 2014 / Politics

What Not to Wear

April 2, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Alëna Skarina

Quebec’s Charter of Values debate gets testy

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Illustration of a tree trunk with leaves and a worm
April 2014 / Poetry

Happiness

March 27, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Alëna Skarina

Happiness is fine, from twelve to twenty-nine. But thinning haired and thirty, you crave the sure and sturdy. You seek a house and wife and benefits—a life, built to your …

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An illustrated flower
April 2014 / Society

La Squirteuse

March 26, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Alëna Skarina

The hardest-working porn star in the business

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April 2014 / Society

Rough Waters

March 19, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Alëna Skarina

The plastic that popularized canoeing could soon disappear

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A cover of an old issue of The Walrus
April 2014 / Environment

Editor’s Note

March 17, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Alëna Skarina

In Joseph Boyden’s novel The Orenda, there’s a moment when a Jesuit missionary tries to explain the Christian concept of God to a dozen Hurons huddled in a longhouse near …

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Insects
April 2014 / World

Military Surplus

March 17, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Alëna Skarina

Canadian troops in Afghanistan pack up the war

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Cover of the Mar/Apr issue of The Walrus magazine. Mar/Apr 2021

Double issue: declaring your data at the border, the Group of Seven 100 years later, an Indigenous-led camp for unhoused people in Edmonton, death in the age of Facebook, and quitting America for good.

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