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 MoreChalk It Up
Featuring newspaper columnist Christie Blatchford
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
Read MoreWhat 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 …
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Primate Directive
Biruté Galdikas, the world’s leading orangutan expert and a one-time helicopter mom, struggles to let go
Read MoreCode of Silence
An academic book, a multimillion-dollar lawsuit, and a question: is Canadian law failing free speech?
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