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July/August 2011

Fiction by Sarah Selecky, Kathleen Winter, and Alexi Zentner; Joanne Tod’s portraits of Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan; Liberal strategist Warren Kinsella analyzes his party’s defeat; Richard Poplak profiles cyclist Ryder Hesjedal; Andre Mayer explains how Junior Boys are reinventing synth-pop…

July/August 2011 / Justice

Editor’s Note

July 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by John Macfarlane

In March 2010, Marian Botsford Fraser wrote an article for The Walrus about an aboriginal woman named Renée Acoby whose troubles began when, shortly after her birth, her father murdered …

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July/August 2011 / Poetry

The Scarborough Bluffs

July 12, 2011July 20, 2017 - by Michael Lista

You will not find me among the women of the earth, Their hair wound up in buns upon their heads, And goosebumped legs bridged above the bath— I am not …

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Photograph by Jessica Eaton
Fiction / July/August 2011

Madame Poirer’s Dog

July 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by Kathleen Winter

When Doctor Gisele came this morning to assess me again, she asked me to name an animal that has four legs. I told her a snake. Honestly. Why does Residence …

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Photograph by John Galayda
July/August 2011 / World

Exorcism at Ground Zero

July 12, 2011March 4, 2021 - by Bill Reynolds

In New York, young Americans celebrate the end of a ten-year nightmare

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Photograph by Angela Fama
July/August 2011

Regal Steps

July 12, 2011September 23, 2021 - by Anne Shibata Casselman

Inside the English country dance scene, where the most intimate contact occurs between the eyes

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Illustration by Ryan Lake
July/August 2011 / Society

Tangled Web

July 12, 2011November 19, 2020 - by Ivor Tossell

How bad metaphors are hiking up your Internet bill

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July/August 2011

The Stag

July 12, 2011July 6, 2017 - by Deirdre Dodds

A former sex worker recounts a harrowing night in Abbotsford, BC, circa 1980

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Art by David Rokeby
July/August 2011 / Media

Divine Inspiration

July 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by Jeet Heer

How Catholicism made Marshall McLuhan one of the twentieth century’s freest and finest thinkers

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Books / July/August 2011

Brother Grim

July 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by Mark Medley

In his new young adult novel, Idaho Winter, Tony Burgess unleashes his trademark gore and gross-out humour on the kids

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Illustration by Paul Kim
July/August 2011

Back to the Future

July 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by Andre Mayer

Junior Boys are reinventing synth-pop for the digital age

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