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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Mr. Irresistible
A history of Ezra Levant’s campaign for hearts and minds
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The Very Strange Case of Hussein Ali Sumaida
A double agent for Saddam’s notorious Mukhabarat and Israel’s Mossad has returned to Canada. How did he get here? Did Canada once deliver him into torture? And has Sumaida finally found sanctuary?
Read MoreThe Saddest Music In the World
From The Kinks to Kermit the Frog, we chose our 30 favourite sad songs. What are yours?
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An interview with CBC Radio 2 host Rich Terfry about his hip hop alter ego
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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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This Is Your Life
Timeline, Facebook’s latest bid to keep you in its grasp, is unsettling—and unexpectedly beautiful
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My guide in matters pertaining to journalism is A.J. Liebling who, from 1946 to 1963, wrote a column in The New Yorker called The Wayward Press. (He also wrote Between …
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Gavin McInnes co-founded Vice magazine. As it got big, he got ousted
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The assassination of Osama bin Laden by United States Navy SEALs on May 1 was first reported on Twitter. At 9:45 p.m., White House communications director Daniel Pfeiffer alerted the …
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