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The Education of Omar Khadr
One chilly day in late March, Arlette Zinck brought her lesson plan to the University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton. This was out of the ordinary. The King’s University College English professor...
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Queerer Than Fiction
Adecade ago, when I was asked to represent the voice of the young on an intergenerational panel of LGBT authors, novelist R. M. Vaughan spoke of a lavender ceiling. He claimed that gay literary authors...
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Giving Up the Ghost
Ihad expected an austere, sanatorium-like atmosphere, with staff in crisp lab coats, the walls plastered with rules and bumper sticker–type slogans: Rehab is for quitters, maybe. Instead, the place...
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Grizzly Hunter, Dawson City
A species apart, snaggle-toothed, speech full of spitty hisses. Horse-faced with a hangover, half out his mind. Gnarl-knuckled, forearms bark-thick with scabs. Laugh, a barking dog frenzied on a chain....
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The Hunt Revisited
In 1976, Greenpeace launched a campaign to save the 200,000 harp seals that Newfoundlanders and Norwegians harvested annually in Atlantic Canada. Graphic images of bloody pups on sea ice helped quash...
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Faulty Tower
In Winnipeg, an area known as the Forks seems custom-made to serve as a national metaphor. Situated midway between the Atlantic and the Pacific, at the junction of two mighty rivers—the Red and...
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Solidarity Forever
This appeared in the November 2014 issue.The post Solidarity Forever first appeared on The Walrus.
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Down and Out in Camelot
Robert Knudsen/courtesy of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston Hot seat A fretful Charles Ritchie presents his letters of credence to John F. Kennedy, on May 26, 1962.[/caption]...
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Girls on Ice
We trace our sticks on the ice, carving designs in the shavings. Some of us go barefoot in our skates to better feel the rink. We shift, restless and bored. We’re awkward—rangy girls abutting...
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How the Anti-Vax Movement Harms Us All
In April 2011, the worst measles outbreak to hit North America in a decade ignited at a Quebec high school. It likely started when a staff member at L’école Marie-Rivier in Drummondville, a rural town...
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