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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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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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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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Education / June 2011

Housebroken

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

A guide to buying your first home

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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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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 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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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 Stephen Appleby-Barr
June 2011 / Society

The High Ground

June 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by Daniel Baird

Can the faith of Quebec’s Cardinal Marc Ouellet restore the Catholic Church to innocence?

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