April 2007

"There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot."
- John Cage

April 2007

God’s Slow Death

by Daniel Baird

Three atheists argue for reason in the face of faith. NMA Gold Medal: Illustration…[more]

illustration by Sam Weber

The Man on the Island

by Wayne Grady

NMA nominee: Fiction, Wayne Grady…[more]

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Johnny Castaway

by Sierra On-Line

A gallery of images from the screensaver featured in Wayne Grady’s “Man on the Island”. » View Photo Gallery «

Cubic Connection

by Siobhan Roberts

A reclusive amateur geometer who hates numbers receives a visitor…[more]

National Magazine Award Gold Medal

No longer kept in check by cold winters, the mountain pine beetle has killed $50 billion worth of BC forest in less than a decade. NMA Gold Medal: Best New Writer; NMA nominee: Science, Technology & the Environment…[more]

Letters

April 2007

by The Walrus Readers

Our Story Begins . . . I greatly enjoyed Don Gillmor’s piece on the Liberal convention ([more]

Field Notes

Lords of the Lobby

by Margo Pfeiff

What does it take to join the hotel industry’s elite?…[more]

Poetry

Caledonia

by Ken Babstock

Then we came out in numbers. As Canadians we came out in numbers with flags. With flags aloft and hooting we stepped out in anger and in…[more]

Behaviour

It’s a Dog’s Life

by Alison Gillmor

They’re not just pets anymore — they’re teachers, preachers, shrinks, and philosophers…[more]

Health

Forgotten, But Not Gone

by Janine MacLeod

Can the Conservatives’ new plan solve the long-neglected problem of chemical pollution?…[more]

Field Notes

Better Red, Then Dead

by Joshua Knelman

Can a plan to divert the Red Sea save the Dead — and offer new hope for peace?…[more]

National Magazine Award Nominee

Driven to Distraction

by John Lorinc

How our multi-channel, multi-tasking society is making it harder for us to think. NMA nominee: Science, Technology & the Environment…[more]

Design

The Perfect Seat

by Julia Dault

A short course on sitting down…[more]

Field Notes

Monumental Vibrations

by Ryan Knighton

A blind man listens to the world’s longest song…[more]

Sightings

Tree of Life

by Ken Alexander

Opinion and commentary…[more]

Imaginings

Calpurnia’s Thought Record

by Andrew Clark

An Ides of March Walrus web exclusive…[more]

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Once Upon a Country

In Stéphane Dion the Liberals have a new narrator and perhaps a hero. All now depends on the story he tells and how the Canadian everyman reacts. NMA Gold Medal: Politics and Public Interest, Don Gillmor