The Walrus Magazine

June Letters by The Walrus Readers

2008-04-14T12:23+00:00

Jay Teitel’s firestorm of controversy, plus several online-only letters

Bonus Marks Several times while reading Jay Teitel’s “Failure to Fail” (April), I felt like I was being personally addressed. I teach at a...

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The Other Side by Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall

2008-04-14T12:11+00:00

Fiji, folks, and fun

South pacific—Fiji had never occurred to me. I guess it conjured up images of coconuts and elaborately patterned shirts, but so did a lot of places. I’d never planned on going there until...

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From the Department of Wayward Copywriting by Andrew Clark

2008-04-14T12:04+00:00

Got catchphrase?

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Review: Bottomfeeder by Jared Bland

2008-04-14T13:27+00:00

How to eat ethically in a world of vanishing seafood

Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood by Taras Grescoe HarperCollins (2008), 314 pp. Montreal’s Taras Grescoe is lucky that fishermen are a more interesting lot...

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Review: Atmospheric Disturbances by Alison Pick

2008-04-14T13:06+00:00

A first novel by Rivka Galchen, MD

Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen HarperCollins (2008), 243 pp. “Mysteries that can’t be solved should be passed over in silence.” So says Dr. Leo Liebenstein, the...

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June 2008 Solutions by Fraser Simpson & Craig Kasper

2008-04-14T13:37+00:00

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Ephemera by Dominic Wilcox

2008-04-14T13:49+00:00

Artist Dominic Wilcox’s ephemeral ephemera.

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Each Mortal Thing by P.K. Page

2008-04-14T13:05+00:00

Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: Deals out that being indoors each one dwells; Selves—goes itself; myself it speaks and spells, Crying Whát I dó is me: for that I came....

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Perfecting the Union Versus Packing It In by Ken Alexander

2008-04-14T12:42+00:00

Obama wants to perfect his nation, Harper would rather his didn’t exist

If a country’s present circumstance is dire and the future bleak, it makes sense for the campaigning politician to pluck from the historical archive moments of transcendence upon which...

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For Sale: Arctic Sovereignty? by Michael Byers

2008-04-14T12:54+00:00

How losing a Canadian satellite to the US would be like losing our eyes on the North

Blog: How to Read Read Chris Ellis on the RadarSat sale here.Stephen Harper boldly claims to be...

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Poaching Foreign Doctors by Larry Krotz

2008-04-14T13:18+00:00

Do our development and immigration policies amount to foreign aid in reverse?

In the mid-1990s, I had a job making a film for the Manitoba agency charged with finding doctors and nurses to staff the province’s more remote health clinics. On behalf of the J. A. Hildes...

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Geared Up by Bill Reynolds

2008-04-14T13:21+00:00

On the road to two-wheeled transcendence. One man’s love affair with his bicycle.

Ride along Queen, head west across Parliament. Too crowded. Hang a left, south on Ontario, one block. Then west on Richmond. One-way with synchronized traffic lights. Perfect. Dinner with Deanna at...

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Where Are The Men? by Austin Clarke

2008-04-14T13:21+00:00

“I imagine myself putting my hand on that policeman’s holster and pulling out his revolver.” A short story.

Read The Walrus’s blog on men and manliness: Act Like a Man, by Edward Keenan.“But I love it here in Toronto,...

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Coca Si, Cocaina No by Ruxandra Guidi & Bear Guerra

2008-04-22T92:05+00:00

Plants, politics, and cocaine in Bolivia. A special audio slideshow

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Exclusive Bigfoot Interview! by Jared Bland

2008-05-14T72:72+00:00

Books blogger Jared Bland delves into the misunderstood man-beast’s new memoir

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On Kimchi by Joel McConvey

2008-05-13T90:93+00:00

Korea’s national symbol is a side dish made of fermented cabbage. Our blogger in Korea explains all...

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Tour of Duty by Oliver Noble

2008-04-14T12:09+00:00

Getting the hell out of Kabul: a Canadian soldier’s guide.

kandahar province — “Close up the fucking gap!” I’m driving a lav iii armoured personnel carrier, a tank on wheels the size of a small hotel room, weighing as much as ten...

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Arias of Darkness by Siobhan Roberts

2008-04-14T12:14+00:00

Setting Joseph Conrad’s classic novel to music.

brooklyn — On a November night, an audience gathered in the Great Room at American Opera Projects headquarters to get an early glimpse of an unlikely addition to the cultural canon: an opera...

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Spoiling for a Fight by Larry Frolick

2008-04-14T12:59+00:00

Guatemala’s sailfish hunters at sea

east pacific—Madness. Pure madness. The sport fisher PicaPleitos is on its way back to the fishing grounds twenty-five kilometres off Guatemala’s Pacific coast, and the math is starting...

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Extraordinary Chambers by Chris Tenove

2008-04-14T12:22+00:00

Who will be convicted of the Khmer Rouge’s war crimes?

For Taylor Owen and Ben Kiernan’s analysis of the US bombing campaign, visit walrusmagazine.com/moreOn a steamy Cambodian morning last...

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Before the Flood by John Lorinc

2008-04-14T13:57+00:00

Can sea barriers save New York from global warming’s perfect storm?

In the early morning of August 8, 2007, at the cusp of New York’s epic rush hour, the grey sky over Gotham burst open in a fearsome downpour, the third major storm in seven months. Within a few...

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Taking the Cure by Christopher Shulgan

2008-04-14T13:20+00:00

How a group of British Columbian anarchists inspired democracy in Russia

It stands as one of the more unusual turning points of the Cold War, thanks mostly to the surprise appearance of several naked middle-aged women. It began with a plasterer named Peter Voykin driving...

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None for the Ages by Jeremy Keehn

2008-04-14T13:08+00:00

Can we hope to find the right leader for the times?

Books discussed in this essay:John A. Macdonald: The Young Politician/The Old Chieftainby Donald CreightonU of T Press (1998 reprint), 1,154 pp.John A.: The Man Who Made Us, Volume One:...

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Revolution Afropop, Take 2 by Banning Eyre

2008-04-14T13:34+00:00

The progeny of late Afrobeat superstar Fela Kuti carry on his legend, and his fury

When twenty-five-year-old Seun Kuti of Nigeria took the stage for a showcase concert in Seville, Spain, last October, it was as if a ghost had entered the hall. Seun was fronting his late...

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Eye of the Storm by Daniel Baird

2008-04-14T13:08+00:00

The quiet force of photographer Larry Towell

“Take the third gravel road to the right,” went the directions to Larry Towell’s home in Lambton County, in rural Ontario. “Watch for lots of roadkill.” On a March...

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Review: An Imperfect Offering by Daniel Baird

2008-04-14T13:53+00:00

James Orbinski’s life as a humanitarian doctor

An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century by James Orbinski Doubleday Canada (2008), 431 pp. “Many crawled along the roadside beneath their last remnants...

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Review: Toronto Noir by Don Gillmor

2008-04-14T13:35+00:00

What seethes beneath T.O.’s cool politeness

Toronto Noir edited by Janine Armin and Nathaniel G. Moore Akashic Books (2008), 272 pp. How noir is Toronto? It had eighty-four murders last year, and this in a population of 2.5 million....

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Indexing Trudeau by Jeremy Keehn

2008-04-22T90:25+00:00

A tongue-in-cheek examination of Brian Mulroney, author

Notable in Brian Mulroney’s Memoirs are the book’s many jabs at Pierre Elliott Trudeau. What follows is the Trudeau index entry for the memoir Mulroney really wanted to write:Read Jeremy...

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