Tuesday, October 7, 2008
OUR NEWEST ISSUE! October/November 2008
The First Little Mosque on the Prairie
by Guy Saddy
A Canadianized version of Islam once flourished out west. Can it take root again?…[more]illustration by Graham Roumieu
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Chester Brown’s Zombie Romance
by Sean Rogers
Amid zombie crisis, Toronto faces uncertain future…[more]
Walrus Blogs
The Shelf
Q&A: Lee Henderson
by Jared Bland
This week, Lee Henderson's first novel, The Man Game, was shortlisted for…[more]
Sportstrotter
The Good Old Hockey Song
by Andrew Braithwaite
PARIS—Sports and music make strange bedfellows. When they agree to…[more]
This Is Not A Safari
Rosh Hashanah in Uganda
by Glenna Gordon
"There's a man here with one leg, five women, and thirty-two children,"…[more]
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Bolivia’s Water Fight
by Daniel Aldana Cohen
Will violence in Bolivia deny water rights to its indigenous people? . » View Photo Gallery «
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Society
Child’s Play
by Michel Arseneault
Why hasn’t Quebec re-established a minimum age for employment?…[more]
Milestone
You are The Walrus. Happy 5th Anniversary!
by Shelley Ambrose and John Macfarlane
Happy birthday to us. And okay, you too.…[more]
Literature
The World According to Škvorecký
by Randy Boyagoda
With his new novel, the Czech Canadian dissident returns to his past…[more]
From the Blogs
Hello, I’m Your Food
by Joel McConvey
Analysing South Korea’s fast food signage…[more]
Film
The Unsettler
by Denis Seguin
Atom Egoyan’s Adoration renews a provocative intellectual vision…[more]
Walrus Wayback Machine
Stephen Harper and the Theo-cons
by Marci McDonald
From the October 2006 issue: the rise of Canada’s religious right.…[more]
Soon To Be A Field Note
Cross to Bear
by Marcello Di Cintio
Praying for safe passage in Morocco…[more]
Environment
The Business of Saving the Earth
by Chris Wood
Ecological economists are assigning a price to watersheds and other biological factories…[more]
Photo Essay
Our Faces, Our Selves
by Giles Revell, Matt Willey and Matthew McKinnon
Self portraits via the police Identi-Kit. » View Photo Gallery «
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Bolivia’s Water Fight
by Daniel Aldana Cohen
Will violence in Bolivia deny water rights to its indigenous people? . » View Photo Gallery «
Soon To Be A Field Note
Monkey’s Lunch
by Matt Mossman
Pounding rounds with poachers turned protectors…[more]
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The Big Log Off
On CBC's The Point this week, Georgie Binks asks, "Where do computer files go when you die?"
From the archives: October 2007
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