The Conspiracy Against Africa
Africa is a mess and it’s not going to get better any time soon
Read MoreNovember 2006
Nora Underwood delves into what neuroscience tells us about the teenage brain; Andrew Nikiforuk questions Alberta’s dependence on VLT gambling revenues; a photo essay by Sarah Hughes depicts women in their “comfortable and safe” outfits and their “attractive and sexy” outfits; fiction by Tobias Wolff…
Filming in Poetry
Two decades after his untimely death, Canada’s greatest filmmaker, Claude Jutra, remains underappreciated
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The Bad Future
Climate change vs. civilization
Read MoreSafe and Sexy
The choices women make about what they wear
Read MoreMade in Mexico
British photographer Martin Parr isn’t your stereotypical gringo
Read MoreA Walrus Online Special Feature: buzz
buzz is an urban storytelling project conceived of by Toronto resident Jay Pitter as a way for young adults from the city’s public housing communities to craft hopeful stories about …
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About Buzz
Like fungus in a damp cellar, stories of inner-city youth violence are proliferating in the media. Blazing bullets and rising body bag counts are muscling their way into our daily …
Read MoreArmed with a Dream
Illustration by Marco Cibola “Black male youth, armed and dangerous” is the familiar phrase we hear far too often on the news. We rarely hear about the black youth armed …
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