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Life on the Instalment Plan

by Marian Botsford Fraser

Is Canada’s penal system for women making or breaking Renée Acoby?

Illustration by Stephen Appleby-Barr

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Letters

by The Walrus readers

Atonement, Havana Affair, and Pilgrim’s Progress

The Unsporting Event

by Erin Millar

Do the Paralympic Games encourage athletes to win big by aiming low?

Three Meals in Afghanistan

by Naheed Mustafa

In cities and villages alike, a country seeking change clings tightly to its past

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Ghost Stories

by Emily Landau

An actor achieves immortality through his face, a singer through his voice.…

Letter From Soccer City

by Richard Poplak

This June's FIFA World Cup Final South Africa represents a risky bet that,…

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Real Magic

by Robert Fulford

At a special weight loss program for men, the author discovers that the only way to stop overeating is to start believing

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Poetry

For the Fighter Pilot Made Redundant by Unmanned Drones

by Jesse Patrick Ferguson

Essay

Star-Crossed

by Troy Jollimore

Science fiction contains worlds of wonder, but without love it’s lonely in space

Society

A Tale of Two Cities

by Gary Stephen Ross

The Vancouver you see, and the one you don’t

Music

Living on a Lighted Stage

by Jason Anderson

Are we finally ready to take Rush seriously?

Profile

Bird Calling

by Marcello Di Cintio

Captivated by an endangered avian species, the former director of the Calgary Zoo becomes the world’s foremost expert in its propagation

Books

Melting Plots

by Nav Purewal

Two recent novels illuminate immigrants’ different experiences in English and French Canada

Field Note

Law of the Jungle

by Arno Kopecky

A new free trade deal implicates Canada in Peru’s Indian Problem

Fiction

Paul Farenbacher’s Yard Sale

by Sarah Selecky

Excerpted from the author’s forthcoming debut collection

Visual Art

Firestorm

by Greg Buium

The National Gallery’s acquisition of Voice of Fire created a massive controversy. Could it happen today?

Editor's Note

Editor’s Note

by John Macfarlane

Introducing the March 2010 issue of The Walrus

MARCH 2010

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