Nation Proliferation
By 6 a.m. on Saturday, December 2, a not-unusual clutch of characters had gathered inside the Rose Donut shop at the corner of Carlaw Avenue and Gerrard Street in east …
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Mood Swing
In Montreal, as rain pelted downtown streets and pedestrians huddled under umbrellas, the morning of October 1, 2006, unfolded with a certain restlessness. At the finer hotels — the Ritz-Carlton, …
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Come On Down!
A Winnipeg boy waits for the payoff on The Price is Right
Read More“Chillax, Pops”
I‘m not sure exactly when Canada struck me anew as a decent place worth fighting for, but it happened sometime this past summer. The arrival of Thomas Noiset, our sixteen-yearold …
Read MoreKeeping Everest Honest
Elizabeth Hawley, arbiter of Himalayan
glory and shame, calls it like she sees it
Alberta’s Gamble with Gambling
The “crack cocaine” of gaming hooks a senior mandarin—and the provincial treasury
Read MoreA Walrus Online Special Feature: buzz
buzz is an urban storytelling project conceived of by Toronto resident Jay Pitter as a way for young adults from the city’s public housing communities to craft hopeful stories about …
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A Tale of Two Brothers
Each time she fought with an older male in my family they disappeared
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Re-creating Family
It took seven years for us to be reunited with our father in Canada
Read MoreArmed with a Dream
Illustration by Marco Cibola “Black male youth, armed and dangerous” is the familiar phrase we hear far too often on the news. We rarely hear about the black youth armed …
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