That Old Flame
by Don Gillmor
After sixty years, Harlequin Romance books are still enslaving readers. What’s their secret?
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Book Review: Who We Are
by Daniel Baird
A review of Rudyard Griffith’s Who We Are: A Citizens Manifesto
Security
Are We Safe Yet?
by Daniel Stoffman
Eight years after 9/11, Canada is still far from secure
International Affairs
No Small Mercy
by Jina Moore
How a Rwandan genocide survivor made peace with the man who almost killed her. » View Photo Gallery «
Firsthand
Hooking Without Crooking
by Juliet November
Prostitution is nice work if you can get it decriminalized
Law
The McLachlin Group
by Susan Harada
How Canada’s first female Chief Justice has taken the heat off the Supreme Court
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Harlequin Romance Covers
by The Walrus
A gallery of Harlequin covers from the 1950s to the present
Comics
The Walrus Presents...
by Jason Sherman and David Parkins
Michael Ignatieff’s Czarist takeover bid? Read our monthly comic strip
History
Brisebois Drive
by Aritha van Herk
In our noisy, wired age, the bit players of history are consigned to oblivion
Letters
Letters: May 2009
by The Walrus Readers
Readers respond to Peter Foster on Adam Smith, the NFB and more
Film
The Poetry of Grief
by Melora Koepke
Montreal filmmaker Denis Villeneuve brings the Polytechnique massacre to the screen
Field Notes
Walk to the Black Rock
by Shelagh Plunkett
Montreal’s Irish community remembers its dead
