October 2007
Rick Salutin makes the case for our public obligation to teach; Roger Martin argues that Canada is at a turning point in its standing in the international economy; Patrick Alleyn looks at the greatest environmental restoration effort in history, taking place in the Chinese Dust Bowl…
The Chinese Dust Bowl
In response to the rapid desertification of its once-fertile steppes and oases, China is undertaking the most ambitious environmental restoration in history
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Oh Canada (as sung on Vancouver Island)
Another spring cracks open on the rocks as the seagull drops living mussels on stone shore, alights to tear the flesh. I know the fierce gull. I know the creature …
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Twelve Angry Maids
Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad brings forgotten corners of myth to light on stage
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Wire Transfer
David Simon’s The Wire is at the vanguard of a storytelling revolution that is changing the way we watch TV
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The Adaptation of Mordecai Richler
More than thirty years after publication, St. Urbain’s Horseman finally hits the screen
Read More The Eyes Have It
Just off the trail among the quills of the birches the porcupine had settled, comfortably into its final business. It looked like a fur hat abandoned in the snow melt …
Read MoreA Portrait of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
Presented in sponsorship of picturesfestival.com
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The Walrus Reads
New books of note
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