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June 2011

Rachel Giese investigates a correlation between immigration and crime; John Lorinc ponders the weather-changing technologies of geoengineering; Daniel Baird meets with Canada’s man in the Vatican, Cardinal Marc Ouellet; Kamal Al-Solaylee describes life in Yemen; Pasha Malla delivers a droll account of buying a home; fiction by Grace O’Connell…

Art by Alex Fischer
Fiction / June 2011

Noisemakers

June 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by Grace O'Connell

Peter killed the engine in the middle of the lake, the boat rocking up and down on its own waves. They might just drift for a while, maybe lie on …

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Photograph from the Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck
June 2011 / Sports

Nerds on Ice

June 12, 2011October 16, 2019 - by Jeremy Keehn

How advanced stats have brought hockey’s underdogs into the limelight

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Image courtesy of Baskin-Robbins
June 2011 / Technology

Any Given Sundae

June 12, 2011June 29, 2021 - by Karen Pinchin

Ice cream experts know that a cone is never just a cone

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Education / June 2011

Housebroken

June 12, 2011October 16, 2019 - by Pasha Malla

A guide to buying your first home

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June 2011 / Poetry

Salvage

June 12, 2011July 20, 2017 - by Dani Couture

You can tell a thousand-footer by her straight back, hammer head —a skyscraper toppled. Too long for locks, what she’s best at: pushing taconite from Duluth to Gary, the endless …

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Illustration by Raymond Biesinger
Books / June 2011

Supersized

June 12, 2011May 1, 2017 - by Charles Foran

How Mordecai Richler taught a generation of writers to think big

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Arts & Culture / June 2011

Eli Bornowsky

June 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by Lee Henderson

Reading (2011): three original works commissioned by The Walrus

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Illustration by Leeay Aikawa
June 2011

Immodest Activities

June 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by John Semley

With Wipeout Canada, we finally have our own garish game show

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June 2011

Model Tease

June 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by Jason Sherman

Featuring, in his Walrus debut, Toronto mayor Rob Ford

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June 2011

Climate Controlled

June 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by John Lorinc

How do we regulate the weather-changing technologies of geoengineering?

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As the executive director, I am frequently asked this question. These days, I reply: “The Walrus was made for this moment.” From on-again, off-again trade news and negotiations to a new prime minister, we are committed to Canada’s conversations. We launched six regional bureaus earlier this year to ensure comprehensive coverage across this great country of ours. But we can’t do this alone. As a non-profit newsroom, this work isn’t possible without our readers’ support. If you believe in Canada’s stories, support our paywall-free journalism with a donation today.

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