The First Lady of Reefer Madness
How a renowned Canadian feminist popularized our racist war on drugs
Read MoreJanuary/February 2017
Nadim Roberts profiles the Calgary imam who saves Muslim men from radicalization; Danielle Groen examines why there are so few female conductors; Melvyn Green uncovers the roots of our racist war on drugs; Stephen Marche positions Canada in the age of Trump; Pico Iyer reflects on Leonard Cohen…
To Live and Die in Solitary Confinement
In Canada’s prisons, the horrors of segregation are most often visited on the mentally ill
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I Open the Dryer and a Robin Sails Out
Winner of the 2016 Walrus Poetry Prize Readers’ Choice Award You are driving a bus across Alberta, deciding between seasons, plucking aphids and roses. Over mountains I feel the peak …
Read More Colloquium: J.T. Henry and Lady Simcoe on Early Ontario Petrocolonialism
Winner of the 2016 Walrus Poetry Prize Mrs. Hamilton drank tea with me. Mrs. McGill, wife of the commissary, Capt. John McGill, and Miss Crookshank, her sister, are pleasant women …
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Why Are There so Few Female Conductors?
For women, the symphony is not so different from the boardroom
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An Occurrence on the Beach at Varosha
October 2012 The evening’s last light has drained out of the sky behind the procession of dead hotels lining the beach. Up to twenty storeys high, they were built so …
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Guilty Memories from an Anglo Montreal Childhood
Like many English speakers growing up in Quebec, I saw myself as a victim. But within our own enclaves, we often acted like bigots
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