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October 2007 / Poetry

Oh Canada (as sung on Vancouver Island)

October 12, 2007July 7, 2017 - by Karen Connelly

Another spring cracks open on the rocks as the seagull drops living mussels on stone shore, alights to tear the flesh. I know the fierce gull. I know the creature …

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Photograph by Benoit Aquin
October 2007

The Chinese Dust Bowl

October 12, 2007April 15, 2020 - by Patrick Alleyn

In response to the rapid desertification of its once-fertile steppes and oases, China is undertaking the most ambitious environmental restoration in history

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October 2007

No Refuge

October 12, 2007October 15, 2019 - by Andrew Mitrovica

For challenging a policy that discriminated against certain refugees, a federal employee’s career was ruined. Despite being cleared, he still awaits justice

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Image provided by Bettman/Corbis
October 2007

56*

October 12, 2007June 1, 2021 - by David Robbeson

Was Joe DiMaggio’s fifty-six-game hitting streak the greatest feat in all of sports or merely a product of its time?

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October 2007

Eat or Be Eaten

October 12, 2007October 15, 2019 - by Ken Alexander

Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management, tells Walrus editor Ken Alexander that in the global economy Canada has one choice: be a little guppy or a big fish

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Education / October 2007

The Mystery of Teaching

October 12, 2007October 15, 2019 - by Rick Salutin

In some form, most of us teach. Here’s why we should do it more often

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October 2007 / Society

Dominick’s Fish

October 12, 2007October 19, 2020 - by R.M. Vaughan

The things we leave behind when we die

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October 2007 / Politics

Blown Into Proportion

October 12, 2007September 25, 2019 - by Daniel Aldana Cohen

On the eve of Ontario’s referendum, a young voter makes the
case for overhauling the country’s electoral system

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Fiction / October 2007

What a Season It Could Be…

October 12, 2007October 15, 2019 - by Don Gillmor

No one was more surprised than yours truly when nhl Commissioner Gary Bettman’s crazy plan worked, more or less. We all knew that hockey was in trouble. We all thought …

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October 2007

A Portrait of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

October 12, 2007May 1, 2017 - by Liz Marshall

Presented in sponsorship of picturesfestival.com

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Forget the bots and billionaires.
This election season, we’re bringing you nothing but trusted, independent journalism.

On U.S. election night, I stayed up late with the TV playing and the New York Times Presidential Election page open on my laptop, refreshing constantly for the ballot counts. Odds are, you were glued to the updates too. You know what happened: the stunning comeback of Donald Trump, a convicted felon who tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

What made this political season especially exhausting, aside from Trump’s incendiary rhetoric, was the tidal wave of misinformation. As we brace for Canada’s own national election, the need for reliable information is more urgent than ever. If you want a fearlessly independent media source you can trust amidst the bots and billionaires with agendas, you’ve come to the right place.

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