The Walrus Reads
Four new titles of note
Read MoreApril 2008
Jay Teitel explains Canadian universities’ unwillingness to fail students; Janice Gross Stein and Eugene Lang study General Rick Hillier, Canada’s chief of defence staff; Christine Pountney recalls her first experience of big-game hunting; part two of former MP Barry Campbell’s memoir on life as a politician; fiction by Janice Galloway…
Darkness Visible
Ego, ambition, lost souls, and nailing the Opposition in Ottawa: part two of Politics as Unusual a memoir
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Spiritual Exercises
Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age shows why religion remains a powerful force
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The Caribou Hunter
A city girl learns how it feels to pull the trigger
Read MoreToo Few Hilliers
The general goes where Ottawa mandarins fear to tread
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Riel’s Prophecy
The new confidence of Aboriginal theatre
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How the North Was Won
The western rides its comeback into Canada
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Two Cowboys
He yanked the child along, six years old? dressed like him— ebony snakeskin boots scuttling through blaring cabs; black bolos fluttering; hats bobbing, black rolled brims. Were they running late …
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In Black Focus
The crisis in Canada’s classrooms
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