December 2014 | The Walrus

December 2014 / Feature

Armed and Dangerous

December 20, 2014August 5, 2016 - by John Lorinc

How mission creep is turning our cops into warriors

December 2014 / Feature

Oxy Town

December 18, 2014May 11, 2017 - by Dan Werb

Prescription opioids, a small Ontario community, and the failure of the war on drugs

Books / December 2014

Goodbye, Jim

December 9, 2014July 1, 2016 - by Emily Urquhart

A renowned bookseller’s last day on the job

December 2014 / Fiction

Red Dog

December 8, 2014June 12, 2017 - by Kathy Page

Everyone agrees that last summer Katie shelled the peas beautifully, though she was rather slow and lunch didn’t happen until well after two. It was a gorgeous day, the family …

Comics / December 2014

Christmas Spirits

December 3, 2014July 4, 2016 - by Jeet Heer

Days in the lives of Ottawa staffers

December 2014 / Technology

Need for Speed

December 1, 2014July 7, 2016 - by Simon Liem

An Alberta town becomes an unlikely Internet innovator

December 2014 / Poetry

Doubt and Faith

November 28, 2014June 6, 2016 - by Darren Bifford

He might wonder all his life whether his decisions were betrayals, whether he found love out of fear, what prompted him to stay, what wished in him to leave. Or …

December 2014 / Poetry

Three Poems for the Raven

November 27, 2014June 6, 2016 - by Amanda Jernigan

I. It comforts them to think that we embark in pairs, shuffling into the hold of the boat, this creaking ark— they who go solus into the dark. II. Noah …