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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, 2011May 1, 2017 - 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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Letters / November 2011

Letters

November 23, 2011May 1, 2017 - by Readers

MINISTER OF ED When Jean Chrétien formed his government in 1993, his cabinet included many inexperienced ministers (“Aid for Aides,” September). He asked the Institute on Governance, an Ottawa non-profit …

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November 2011 / Poetry

What Was That Poem?

November 12, 2011May 1, 2017 - 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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November 2011 / Society

Modern Inconveniences

November 12, 2011September 8, 2017 - by Adele Weder

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

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Comics / November 2011

Chalk It Up

November 12, 2011May 1, 2017 - by Jason Sherman

Featuring newspaper columnist Christie Blatchford

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November 2011 / Visual Art

Valérie Blass

November 12, 2011May 1, 2017 - 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 Peter Ryan
Feature / November 2011

The Meaning of Hockey

November 12, 2011July 10, 2019 - 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, 2011May 1, 2017 - 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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Justice / November 2011

Code of Silence

November 12, 2011July 20, 2017 - by Candice Vallantin

An academic book, a multimillion-dollar lawsuit, and a question: is Canadian law failing free speech?

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