November 2011 | The Walrus
Skip to content

The Walrus

Fact-based journalism that sparks the Canadian conversation

The Walrus
  • Support The Walrus
  • Subscribe to The Walrus
    • Renew your subscription
    • Get our latest issue
    • Give a gift subscription
  • Sections
    • Hope You're Well
    • Environment
    • Current Affairs
    • Society
    • Health
    • Business
    • Arts & Culture
    • Fiction
    • Poetry
    • Memoir
  • Events
    • The Walrus Gala 2022
    • The Walrus Events
    • The Walrus Talks Video Room
    • The Walrus Leadership Forums
  • The Walrus Lab
    • Amazon Canada First Novel Award
    • Media Kit
    • What We Do
    • Our Projects
    • The Insider newsletter
  • Podcasts
    • The Deep Dive
    • The Conversation Piece
    • Canadian Time Machine
    • Let's Talk About the Internet
    • Bandwidth
    • What About Water
    • Courage Inc.
  •   Newsletters
  •   About The Walrus
  • Shop The Walrus
Menu
  • Sections

    Business

    Environment

    Society

    Politics

    Arts & Culture

    Health

    Fiction

    Poetry

    Memoir

    Education

    Current Affairs

    Special Series

    Teen Walrus

    Hope You're Well

    For the Love of the Game

    Living Rooms

    More Special Series ⇒

    NEWSLETTERS

    Weekly Newsletter

    The Events Newsletter

    The Walrus Lab Insider Newsletter

    ANNUAL REPORT

    Subscribe

    Get our latest issue:
    The Walrus' March/April 2023 cover featuring artwork of the megachurch
    Read past issuesSubscribe to The Walrus magazineRenew or Gift a subscriptionChange your address

    Events

    The Walrus Gala 2023

    The Walrus Talks

    The Walrus Leadership Forum

    The Walrus Talks Video Room

    PODCASTS

    The Deep Dive

    The Conversation Piece

    Canadian Time Machine

    Let's Talk About the Internet

    What About Water

    Bandwidth

    Courage Inc.

    The Walrus Lab

    Amazon Canada First Novel Award

    What We Do

    Our Services

    Our Projects

    The Insider Newsletter

    SHOP THE WALRUS

  • Donate
  • Subscribe
The Walrus

November 2011

John Lorinc investigates where Toronto went wrong; Eamon Mac Mahon photographs our boreal forest, the so-called “lungs of the world”; Stephen Marche celebrates hockey’s rough side; Daniel Baird profiles Adam Gopnik, this year’s Massey lecturer; fiction by Sarah Selecky…

Illustration by Luc Melanson
November 2011

Editor’s Note

November 23, 2011August 12, 2021 - by John Macfarlane

I have lived in other Canadian cities—Montreal, Calgary, and Ottawa—but I have spent most of my life in Toronto. There is no place on earth to which I am more …

Read More
Photograph by Nancy Bleck
November 2011 / Society

Modern Inconveniences

November 12, 2011July 22, 2021 - by Adele Weder

A design writer and self-confessed slob seeks transformation in a year of living minimally

Read More
Photograph by Guy L'Heureux
November 2011

Valérie Blass

November 12, 2011July 22, 2021 - by Lee Henderson

Se reposer sur le côté long et dure des choses (2011) and Jeux de direction (2011): six original works commissioned by The Walrus

Read More
Illustration by Benbo George
November 2011 / Poetry

What Was That Poem?

November 12, 2011June 15, 2020 - by David McGimpsey

My mother asked me, What was that poem? It was Longfellow’s “My Lost Youth,” I think. The answer was Longfellow, often enough, even though she never liked Evangeline. I talked …

Read More
Photograph by Jody Rogac
Education / November 2011

The Observer, Observed

November 12, 2011July 22, 2021 - by Daniel Baird

New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik is an aesthete of the ordinary, and this year’s Massey lecturer

Read More
Photograph by Giles Revell
Fiction / November 2011

This Cake Is for the Party

November 12, 2011November 19, 2020 - by Sarah Selecky

It’s cooling on a rack on the kitchen counter. David is on the couch, cleaning under his fingernails with a corner of his Safeway card, and I’m in the kitchen, …

Read More
Photograph by Eamon Mac Mahon
November 2011

Amazon of the North

November 12, 2011May 1, 2017 - by Eamon Mac Mahon

It’s the world’s largest storehouse of carbon and unfrozen fresh water. Why Canada must give the boreal forest room to breathe

Read More
Illustration by Peter Ryan
November 2011

The Meaning of Hockey

November 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by Stephen Marche

Our game is like no other. Nor is its history

Read More
Photograph by John Hallberg-Campbell
November 2011 / Society

The Best Medicine

November 12, 2011July 22, 2021 - by Kaitlin Fontana

Toward a better world, a Vancouver stand-up teaches NGOs how to be funny

Read More
Photograph by Jane Gray Morrison/ Dancing Star Foundation
Environment / November 2011

Primate Directive

November 12, 2011July 17, 2019 - by Erin Millar

Biruté Galdikas, the world’s leading orangutan expert and a one-time helicopter mom, struggles to let go

Read More

Posts navigation

1 2 Next
Buy this back issue | Buy this cover print

Our Latest Issue

The Walrus' March/April 2023 cover featuring artwork of the megachurch March/April 2023
It was massively popular. It billed itself as a new kind of church. Then sexual abuse and misconduct allegations surfaced against its leaders


Walrus logo with tusks and Canada's Conversation

​​The Walrus sparks conversations about Canada and its place in the world through our award-winning independent journalism, fact checking, events, podcasts, and content solutions. The Walrus is a registered charity with an educational mandate.
Read more on our About Us page.

About The Walrus

  • About Us
  • Our Staff
  • Contact
  • Submissions
  • Careers & Fellowships
  • Advertise with us

The Walrus Lab

  • Amazon Canada First Novel Award
  • What we do
  • Our Services
  • Our Projects
  • Our Clients
  • Get in Touch

Subscribe

  • Magazine Subscription
  • Weekly Newsletter
  • Events Newsletter
  • The Walrus Lab Newsletter
  • The Conversation Piece Podcast

More

  • The Walrus Talks @Home
  • The Walrus Books
  • The Walrus Podcasts
  • Magazine Archives
  • Policies and Standards
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookie Policy
© 2022 The Walrus. All Rights Reserved.
Charitable Registration Number: No. 861851624-RR0001

​​The Walrus is located within the bounds of Treaty 13 signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit. This land is also the traditional territory of the Anishnabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples.

The Walrus uses cookies for personalization, to customize its online advertisements, and for other purposes. Learn more or change your cookie preferences.

×

This Year, The Walrus Turns 20

For two decades, Canadians have relied on our thought-provoking journalism to make sense of our world.

As we look at Who We Are Now in 2023, help us power the next 20 years of inspiring conversations and fact-checked journalism. Donate to The Walrus today.

With thanks,
Jennifer Hollett
Executive Director

Or make a one-time donation

×