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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…

Cities / November 2011

Editor’s Note

November 23, 2011April 13, 2020 - 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 …

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November 2011 / Society

Modern Inconveniences

November 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by Adele Weder

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

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November 2011 / Visual Art

Valérie Blass

November 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - 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

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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 …

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Education / November 2011

The Observer, Observed

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

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

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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, …

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Photograph by Eamon Mac Mahon
November 2011 / Photography

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

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Illustration by Peter Ryan
Feature / November 2011

The Meaning of Hockey

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

Our game is like no other. Nor is its history

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November 2011 / Society

The Best Medicine

November 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by Kaitlin Fontana

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

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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

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