Editor’s Note
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 …
Read MoreJuly/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…
Madame Poirer’s Dog
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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The Scarborough Bluffs
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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Regal Steps
Inside the English country dance scene, where the most intimate contact occurs between the eyes
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How bad metaphors are hiking up your Internet bill
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Divine Inspiration
How Catholicism made Marshall McLuhan one of the twentieth century’s freest and finest thinkers
Read MoreBrother Grim
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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Back to the Future
Junior Boys are reinventing synth-pop for the digital age
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