Editor’s Note
An irony of our time is that while fewer of us participate in the electoral process (in the last federal election, only two-thirds of eligible voters exercised their franchise), we …
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Editor’s Note
The Walrus is entering its tenth year. Volume 1, issue 1 was published in October 2003. The cover story, by Marci McDonald, asked whether Paul Martin, who would soon be …
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In the 1960s, my parents threw an annual Grey Cup party at our home in Banff. It seemed to me an intensely Canadian undertaking: several dozen middle-aged couples gathered around …
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Like most Canadians, I have mixed feelings about the United States. On the one hand, I admire what it has wrought. New York. Harvard. Richard Meier. Apple. Ella Fitzgerald. The …
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Whatever else it accomplished, the Occupy Movement, launched a year ago in New York’s Zuccotti Park, put income inequality on the agenda. The phrases “the 1 percent” and “the 99 …
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I find radio and television advertising irritating. It’s intrusive and often insulting (are twentysomethings really as empty headed as they appear in Budweiser commercials?). Newspaper advertisements are less annoying—if you …
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It’s hard now to imagine a time when running was something people did only when they had to. When a jog was a deviation in a straight line. When only …
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However much we may admire the United States, there are American practices Canadians choose not to emulate. No recent event illustrates the point more clearly than the shooting of a …
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It’s human nature to casually assert that something is better or worse than it used to be, even if at times it’s difficult to tell. Some things just seem obvious. …
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The Conservative government’s plan to create a national securities regulator came to naught late last year when the Supreme Court ruled that it would be unconstitutional; our Constitution gives provinces …
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