November 2009 | The Walrus

November 2009 / Politics

Editor’s Note

November 25, 2009October 11, 2019 - by John Macfarlane

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. …

Letters / November 2009

Letters

November 25, 2009October 11, 2019 - by Readers

Slouching Toward Abraham After over a century of theory on the historical discipline, it seems people like John Macfarlane still believe Canadian history is about learning the narrative of our …

November 2009 / World

Lessons Learned

November 18, 2009October 11, 2019 - by Graeme Wood

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 …

Comics / November 2009

No Confidence

November 18, 2009October 11, 2019 - by Jason Sherman

November 2009 / Poetry

Ditch

November 18, 2009June 22, 2017 - by Melanie Siebert

Strange how we go on looking in the lessening light, along the highway, looking for the things thieves pitched from the smashed windows of our van as they drove and …

Feature / November 2009

Who Killed Canada’s Education Advantage?

November 12, 2009October 11, 2019 - by Roger Martin

A forensic investigation into the disappearance of public education investment in Canada

November 2009 / Photography

Crackdown

November 12, 2009October 10, 2019 - by Arno Kopecky

As President Calderón’s war on drugs exacerbates Mexico’s drug wars, Canada turns its back on locals looking for a way out

Fiction / November 2009

Noughts & Crosses

November 12, 2009October 11, 2019 - by Steven Heighton

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