how | The Walrus - Part 452

man pointing flashlight at man photocopying

March 2005 / Media

Copycat Crimes

March 12, 2005May 26, 2020 - by George Emerson

If the music industry can profit from a sneaky, hidden, ridiculous tax, why can’t publishers
profit from a tax on paper?

woman with bicycle tires around her body

Arts & Culture / March 2005

Crazy Life

March 12, 2005May 26, 2020 - by Carol Rama

Italian artist Carol Rama, now 86, has been controversial since 1945

March 2005 / World

Coalition of the Sort-of Willing Canada Iraq Police

March 12, 2005May 26, 2020 - by Martin Patriquin

On a US base in Jordan, Canadian cops are training new Iraqi police officers for an impossible assignment

Business / March 2005

Open for Business

March 12, 2005June 8, 2020 - by Madelaine Drohan

How international corporations are exploiting our nation’s positive image with little more than a postal box

March 2005 / World

Water Torture

March 12, 2005May 5, 2020 - by Emma Ruby-Sachs

soweto—“Shoot the may-or, the may-or, the may-or! I shot the may-or, the may-or, the may-or!” Roughly 500 men, women, and children march down Rissik Street, through the business district of …

March 2005 / Politics

Life of Brian

March 12, 2005May 5, 2020 - by Craig Taylor

london—Brian Haw and I spent the night together back in September 2002. I had a sleeping bag, which I unrolled on the grass of Parliament Square in Central London, across …

February 2005

Corporate Cannabis

February 12, 2005June 3, 2021 - by Brian Preston

Will a new marijuana mist become the Aspirin of the twenty-first century?

February 2005

Quebec’s Final Victory

February 12, 2005May 5, 2020 - by Allan Gregg

Pierre Trudeau tried to stop a cycle of blackmail, where one province held up the national interest by bargaining solely for its own parish. Paul Martin’s new health accord is an invitation not just for one blackmailer, but for ten.