Editor’s Note
Barack Obama’s efforts to reform American health care have rekindled the debate, here and in the United States, about the relative merits of our two systems. They are starkly different. …
Read MoreNovember 2009
Roger Martin reveals the disappearance of public education investment in Canada; Alex Hutchinson ponders the dangers of widespread GPS use; Carol Shaben investigates the loosening of airline safety standards in Canada; Teun Voeten and Arno Kopecky document Mexico’s drug war; fiction by Steven Heighton…
Lessons Learned
Captain Faizullah and Warrant Officer Guillaume “Ti-Will” Ouellet / Photograph by Graeme Wood The afghan called Teacher is deep in Taliban country, crouching halfway up a mountainside at dawn, listening …
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Boys in the ’Hood
Countdown to Liquor Day marks the end of the Trailer Park Boys’ ten-year run. How did creator Mike Clattenburg turn white trash into comic gold?
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Fly At Your Own Risk
Why is Transport Canada moving toward self-regulation for the country’s airlines?
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Is GPS technology actually harming our sense of direction?
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The Walrus Reads
Nine fall books of note
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Whalebones
Saving the remains of the world’s biggest animal
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Virtual Emigration
Faced with hard times, Icelandic architects are finding work in Canada
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