Editor’s Note
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 MoreNovember 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…
Modern Inconveniences
A design writer and self-confessed slob seeks transformation in a year of living minimally
Read MoreValérie Blass
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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What Was That Poem?
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 MoreThe Observer, Observed
New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik is an aesthete of the ordinary, and this year’s Massey lecturer
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This Cake Is for the Party
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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Amazon of the North
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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The Meaning of Hockey
Our game is like no other. Nor is its history
Read MoreThe Best Medicine
Toward a better world, a Vancouver stand-up teaches NGOs how to be funny
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Primate Directive
Biruté Galdikas, the world’s leading orangutan expert and a one-time helicopter mom, struggles to let go
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