Editor’s Note
“It’s more than a game,” croons the announcer promoting an upcoming instalment of CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada. “It’s our game.” What, exactly, does it mean to say that hockey …
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Editor’s Note
In 1982, with the global economy in recession, Liberal prime minister Pierre Trudeau established a Royal Commission, chaired by former finance minister Donald Macdonald, to look into remedies. The Macdonald …
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As a child, I didn’t pay much attention to airplanes. Like most boys at the time, I was obsessed with cars. (When I was a teenager in the ’50s, my …
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At the turn of the past century, my grandfather emigrated to Canada from England, where as a boy he apprenticed as a tool and die maker. Here he found a …
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The year 2003 is recent enough that its contours seem almost familiar—and yet distant enough that recalling them requires some effort. Jean Chrétien stepped down as prime minister to make …
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The editorial interns at The Walrus are for the most part better educated than I am. I went to university but didn’t graduate, having discovered my calling in the sandbox …
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In 1988, 300 scientists and policy-makers met at a conference in Toronto to address “The Changing Atmosphere: Implications for Global Security.” They concluded that pollutants resulting from human activity were …
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Watching the memorial service for Stompin’ Tom Connors reminded me of the public outpouring of grief that followed the Princess of Wales’s death in 1997. Diana once personified the romantic …
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The modern green movement was born in Concord, Massachusetts, where Henry David Thoreau wrote The Maine Woods, a book extolling the benefits of conservation. Some of its readers were inspired …
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When Canada celebrated its centennial in 1967, I was a sophomore at the Globe and Mail and could name from memory the premiers of all ten provinces. They were W.A.C. …
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