April 2008

"I was introduced as follows: 'We will hear first from
Barry Campbell, MP for St. Paul's, who will get us off.'"
-- Barry Campbell, in Darkness Visible."

April 2008

Failure to Fail

by Jay Teitel

Why are students no longer flunking university? Is it their brains, or their wallets? …[more]

Too Few Hilliers

by Janice Gross Stein and Eugene Lang

Rick Hillier just announced his retirement. A look at how the general went where Ottawa mandarins fear to tread …[more]

How The North Was Won

by Alistair Brown

The western rides its comeback into Canada…[more]

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War Child: Q&A

by Daniel Aldana Cohen

An interview with Samantha Nutt, founder of War Child Canada…[more]

Riel’s Prophecy

by Susan Crean

The new confidence of Aboriginal theatre …[more]

In Black Focus

by Ken Alexander

The crisis in Canada’s classrooms…[more]

Unsafe Practices

by Alanna Mitchell

Can the Masai reconcile tradition with the realities of HIV?…[more]

Close to the Noise

by Mara Hvistendahl

Motorcycle nostalgists in China. » View Photo Gallery «

Spiritual Excercises

by Daniel Baird

Religion remains a powerful force, according to Charles Taylor…[more]

Book Review: The Toss of a Lemon

by Daniel Baird

The Toss of a Lemon by Padma Viswanathan Random House Canada (2008), 616pp. In the…[more]

Life Going On

by Emilie Cameron

Second place entry in the 2007 Student Field Notes Contest…[more]

Politics as Unusual: Darkness Visible

by Barry Campbell

The continuing saga of Barry Campbell, MP…[more]

Book Review: Orphic Politics

by Priscilla Uppal

Orphic Politics by Tim Lilburn McClelland & Stewart (2008), 86 pp. It can be very…[more]

Book Review: Blackouts

by Jared Bland

Blackouts by Craig Boyko McClelland & Stewart (2008), 317 pp. “Mr. Bearden does not have a wife,”…[more]

Latrine Graffiti, Kuwait and Afghanistan

by Steve Featherstone

American soldiers’ restroom graffiti in Afghanistan and Kuwait. » View Photo Gallery «

Blue Jeans: A Style for Every Story

by Claire Hastings

The details behind the denim, from ninety years ago to now…[more]

The Greens Forest

by Murray Whyte

Vancouver Island’s slow food rebirth …[more]

Death on the Installation Plan

by Jeremy Keehn

“We’ll consider your contract fulfilled in the event of your death.”…[more]

Shopping for a Marriage

by Andrea Gummo

First place entry in the 2007 Student Field Notes Contest…[more]

Salt Spring Island Lamb

by Barbara Stewart

Third place entry in the 2007 Student Field Notes Contest…[more]

Opera

by Janice Galloway

Splashing and gurgles in the throat. Listen. Almost a racket, a radio slipping out of true. But it’s not that,…[more]

Book Review: Nikolski

by Marianne Ackerman

Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner, translated by Lazer Lederhendler) Knopf Canada (2008), 290…[more]

Michael Pollan: Q&A

by Jared Bland

The Walrus’s book blogger Jared Bland talks with the author of the bestselling In Defense of Food. …[more]

The Caribou Hunter

by Christine Pountney

A city girl learns how it feels to pull the trigger…[more]

More Recipes from Vancouver Island

by Edward Tuson, Sinclair Philip and Mara Jernigan

Exclusive recipes from three Vancouver chefs…[more]

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