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Follow the Leader

Follow the Leader

A friend and colleague remembers Pierre Trudeau
Firsthand | by Denise Chong
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Editor’s Note
No One Can Hear You Scream
Diminishing Returns

Editor’s Note

Is it time to eliminate the middleman in public education?
Editor’s Note | by John Macfarlane

No One Can Hear You Scream

At Mars on Earth, on Canada’s Devon Island, researchers prepare for space travel’s worst dangers
Frontier | by Ivan Hansen

Diminishing Returns

Key West, Florida’s shrinking trophy fish, in words and pictures
Online Exclusive | by David Rusak
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Overcoming Obstacles
Return to No Fun City
Art for All... Or Else

Overcoming Obstacles

A practitioner examines the evolution of the urban sport/art/discipline called parkour
by David Rusak

Return to No Fun City

In Vancouver, the host of past heartache, the author says goodbye to all that
by Stacey May Fowles

Art for All... Or Else

Simon Brault, vice chair of the Canada Council, discusses his book No Culture, No Future
by Hilary Fair
The Walrus Is...

Our friends at Industry Films met with The Walrus Foundation’s Shelley Ambrose to learn all about Canada’s best magazine. Watch this short video and see what The Walrus is…

The Walrus Is...
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Letters

Letters

Sticks and Stones, Can’t Buy Me Love, Performance Anxiety, and Barbarism Begins at Home
Letters | by The Walrus Readers
Office of the President

Office of the President

For University of Alberta’s Indira Samarasekera, running a university is an exercise in high-stakes risk management
Education | by Gordon Laird
No One Can Hear You Scream

No One Can Hear You Scream

At Mars on Earth, on Canada’s Devon Island, researchers prepare for space travel’s worst dangers
Frontier | by Ivan Hansen
Brazilian Blind Spot

Brazilian Blind Spot

The Brazilians have lately been looking north for opportunities. For our own good, we ought to return the favour
Essay | by Christopher Frey
The Work of Art

The Work of Art

Dany Laferrière once yearned to be well known. Some twenty books later, he’d rather be widely read
Books | by Marianne Ackerman
Pravda and Other Words for Truth

Pravda and Other Words for Truth

V.I. Lenin’s long journey from revolutionary hero to icon of kitsch
Ideas | by Medeine Tribinevicius
Cottage Country

Cottage Country

Poetry | by Jeramy Dodds
City of Cinema

City of Cinema

The Toronto International Film Festival’s vaulting ambition to create a world-class centre for film
Film | by Daniel Baird
Modern Primitive

Modern Primitive

Survivorman’s Les Stroud taps into our twenty-first-century malaise and finds TV gold
Essay | by Nicholas Hune-Brown
Convicts Care

Convicts Care

The Walrus Presents | by Jason Sherman
The Canadian School

The Canadian School

A new generation of designers marries the local with the avant-garde
Fashion | by Jessica Johnson
The Boomerang Effect

The Boomerang Effect

How did the forever young generation turn into perpetual parents?
Society | by Marni Jackson
Editor’s Note

Editor’s Note

Is it time to eliminate the middleman in public education?
Editor's Note | by John Macfarlane
The Matter with Morris

The Matter with Morris

Happiness, he discovers, is uneasy to find
Fiction | by David Bergen
The Perfect Partner

The Perfect Partner

Why doubles player Daniel Nestor could be tennis’s greatest hope
Profile | by Andrew Clark
And the Brat Came Back

And the Brat Came Back

A boomerang child relives her first, pathetic flight from home
Online Exclusive | by Alexandra Molotkow
Desktop Wallpaper

Desktop Wallpaper: Notable

Download exclusive wallpaper from the September 2010 issue of The Walrus
Online Exclusive | by Mariah Burton
A 10 Percent World

A 10 Percent World

Our natural world is a fraction of what it was before the mass culls and oil spills of the human era. To imagine how it once was is not to lament, but to picture what it can be again
Environment | by J.B. MacKinnon
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