January/February 2010
Faster, Higher, Sneakier
by Alex Hutchinson
Does Canada’s “Top Secret” sports technology program undermine the Olympic spirit?Illustration by Joel Castillo
Books
Right of Passage
by Nicholas Hune-Brown
Will the promise of the Northwest Passage finally be realized?
Government
The Dark Country
by Gil Shochat
The Afghan torture scandal. The Arar affair. Adscam. The Bush years. Given so many cautionary tales, why are Canadians still letting the government hide public information?
More Stories in this issue
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Kid vs. Kid
by Robert Parker
Duelling interviews with Mark McKinney and Bruce McCulloch of Kids in the Hall
Television
Bloodletting
by Charles Foran
Vincent Lam’s miraculous book goes under the knife for television
Politics
The Stranger Within
by Ron Graham
Who is Michael Ignatieff? Why does he want to run the country? And does he have what it takes, not only to defeat Stephen Harper, but also — first things first — to bring peace to his own party?
Visual Art
January-February 2010 Image Gallery
by The Walrus Contributors
Photographs and illustrations from the magazine. » View Photo Gallery «
Editor's Note
Editor’s Note
by John Macfarlane
Christina McCall started at Maclean’s in 1956, when writers like Pierre
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Pursuit
by Adam Makarenko
Desktop wallpaper from our January/February 2010 issue. » View Photo Gallery «
Visual Art
The Earthling
by Tatsuro Kiuchi
An illustrated series from the January/February 2010 issue of The Walrus. » View Photo Gallery «
Photo Essay
In the Clearing
by Adam Makarenko
Revisiting his hometown in a photographic series of miniature dioramas, the artist presents life and death in northwestern Ontario, writ small. » View Photo Gallery «
Comedy
Back in the Hall
by Adam Sternbergh
No one made sketch comedy, that most Canadian of comic forms, like the Kids in the Hall — which makes their return to television a big deal
