Oct/Nov 2008
"And then this: my shoulder felt hot. I wasn't going to burn. I was cooking."
--Michael Winter, in "The Incinerator Incident"
Oct/Nov 2008
The Chinese Dust Bowl
by Benoit Aquin & Patrick Alleyn
Photographer Benoit Aquin has won the Prix Pictet for his work on “Dust Bowl”, first published in October 2007.
Online Exclusive
Election Day in Chicago
by Salimah Ebrahim
A photo essay in Chicago, from the South Side to Grant Park on election day. » View Photo Gallery «
Religion
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 Stories in this issue
Online Exclusive
Bonus Gallery: Our Faces, Our Selves
by Giles Revell & Matt Willey
Online-only bonus: Identify yourself with the Identi-Kit. . » View Photo Gallery «
Urban Affairs
Grim Repo
by Charles Montgomery
Speculator behaviour is ravaging cities. Can we resist the hot deal?
Walrus Wayback Machine
Stephen Harper and the Theo-cons
by Marci McDonald
From the October 2006 issue: the rise of Canada’s religious right.
From the Blogs
Q&A: Paul Gross and Passchendaele
An interview with the writer/director and review of his epic new World War I movie, Passchendaele
Society
Child’s Play
by Michel Arseneault
Why hasn’t Quebec re-established a minimum age for employment?
Book Review
Review: Once
by Daniel Baird
Rebecca Rosenblum’s debut collection of stories in a Toronto setting
Online Exclusive
Bolivia’s Water Fight
by Daniel Aldana Cohen
Will violence in Bolivia deny water rights to its indigenous people? . » View Photo Gallery «
Environment
The Business of Saving the Earth
by Chris Wood
Ecological economists are assigning a price to watersheds and other biological factories
Photo Essay
Our Faces, Our Selves
by Giles Revell, Matt Willey and Matthew McKinnon
Self portraits via the police Identi-Kit. » View Photo Gallery «
Literature
The World According to Škvorecký
by Randy Boyagoda
With his new novel, the Czech Canadian dissident returns to his past
From the Blogs
Chester Brown’s Zombie Romance
by Sean Rogers
Amid zombie crisis, Toronto faces uncertain future
Book Review
Review: The $12 Million Stuffed Shark:
The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art
by Jared Bland
Don Thompson’s comprehensive account of the world of contemporary art
Letters
Letters: October/November 2008
by The Walrus Readers
On Marion Botsford’s post-colonial travel writing, the Trans-Canada highway, and more.
Plus, one reader calls us “hip” and “fancy.”
Milestone
You are The Walrus. Happy 5th Anniversary!
by Shelley Ambrose and John Macfarlane
Happy birthday to us. And okay, you too.
Walrus Arctic Expedition
Baffin Island Expedition
by Team Orlova, photos by Douglas Knight
Photos from Sept 2-12 aboard the Lyubov Orlova. » View Photo Gallery «
