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October 2013

Tenth anniversary collector’s edition: water by Edward Burtynsky; Russell Peters by Matthew McKinnon; Harper explained by Ron Graham; walking as a cure by Dan Rubinstein; fixing Parliament by Andew Coyne; a girl at ten by Katrina Onstad; Afghanistan again by Mellissa Fung; digital sex by Michael Harris; fiction by Lisa Moore; the next ten years by Barry Blitt…

Comics / October 2013

The Next Ten Years

December 23, 2013July 4, 2016 - by Barry Blitt
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Illustration by Graham Roumieu
October 2013 / Poetry

Waves

December 18, 2013December 18, 2013 - by Richard Greene

“Everybody selling, nobody buying,” I am told, as a man carries shoes tied by their laces to a string around his neck. Women tend flames, sell griyo and discs of …

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Photograph by Edward Burtynsky
October 2013 / Photography

Water

December 18, 2013July 31, 2015 - by Edward Burtynsky

Our unquenchable thirst for the earth’s defining resource

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Artwork by the Walrus Art Department
October 2013 / Technology

The iPhone

November 25, 2013July 7, 2016 - by Clive Thompson

The iPhone almost turned out to be a dreadful flop. Why? Because of the wheel. When Apple was secretly planning the device in the mid-2000s, the designers based it on …

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Artwork by the Walrus Art Department
Health / October 2013

Hand Sanitizer

November 15, 2013July 4, 2016 - by Alex Hutchinson

I don’t know how you celebrated this year’s national hand hygiene day, but the festivities were a bit muted at my place. I gave up on the themed crossword after …

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Illustration by Jillian Tamaki
Feature / October 2013

Hot Wired

October 28, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Michael Harris

Gay men are on the vanguard of the digital sexual revolution, and the rest of us are not far behind. Are we satisfied yet?

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Photograph by Michael Graydon and Nikole Herriott
Feature / October 2013

The Walking Cure

October 26, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Dan Rubinstein

On the trail in northern Quebec—finding salvation, one step at a time

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Artwork by the Walrus Art Department
First Person / October 2013

The Residential School Apology

October 21, 2013October 23, 2019 - by Wab Kinew

Last December, I witnessed a small miracle. Cancer had relegated my father to a bed in a darkened room where only his closest friends and family came to visit. On …

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Photograph by Christopher Wahl
Feature / October 2013

Inside Joke

October 20, 2013April 13, 2020 - by Matthew McKinnon

The post-racial comedy of Russell Peters

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Illustration by Jeffrey Smith
Feature / October 2013

Born in the Burbs

October 17, 2013January 20, 2021 - by Ron Graham

Stephen Harper explained

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