The Walrus
Canada's Best Magazine

Renew your subscription
Customer Care
Support The Walrus Foundation
Sign up for our e-newsletter
2004.11

November 2004

"Art is like medicine - it can heal. Yet I've always been amazed at how many believe in medicine but don't believe in art, without questioning either."
- Damien Hirst

Rough Justice

Rough Justice

Illegal diamonds are the prize. But death in the Amazon rainforest is the price, as Indians, Brazilian miners, and a mysterious third party fight over the richest deposit in South America.
Anthropology | by Shawn Blore
A Manual’s Labours

A Manual’s Labours

The self-help sex book, like its first readers, has crossed middle age. With Viagra, both get a little lift
Books | by Don Gillmor

A Love Affair with Secrecy

A Love Affair with Secrecy

The Access to Information Act was supposed to get government documents into the hands of Canadians. Instead, it has created a state in which there are often no documents to get.
Politics | by David Berlin

Studies Show...

Studies Show...

. . . that maybe you should, um, eat more chocolate ?
Reality | by Ellen Vanstone

Life, at What Price?

Life, at What Price?

Canada does not have universal health care, but it could. The secret might lie in the Oregon experiment, a radical and life-promoting solution
Ideas | by Ivor Shapiro

Fall Classic

Fall Classic

Facts all come with points of view Facts don’t do what I want them to Facts just twist the truth around—Talking Heads, Crosseyed & Painless
Sightings | by Ken Alexander

The Fruit-Punch Tree

The Fruit-Punch Tree

Field Notes | by Jen Ross

Money for Nothing, a Reno For Free

Money for Nothing, a Reno For Free

Field Notes | by Deborah Campbell

November 2004

November 2004

Letters | by

Space Invaders

Space Invaders

The seduction of small things made large
Detail | by Simone Decker

The Numbers Game

The Numbers Game

Larger, richer, more powerful than ever: that’s the forecast for the U.S. as its birth rate exceeds that of any other industrialized nation — and nearly doubles that of Canada.
Issues | by Tom Fennell

Gore Redux

Gore Redux

Gore Vidal is leaving his Italian villa to fight his biggest battle yet
Elections | by Paul Jay

The Brain Trainer

The Brain Trainer

How to focus, focus, focus
Method | by Lisa Fitterman

Sounds of Motown

Sounds of Motown

Thirty years ago in Windsor, cklw, one of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll stations ever, lost an angry battle with the newly created CRTC who demanded more Canadian content.
Media | by David Hayes

Smacking Down the Vote

Smacking Down the Vote

Field Notes | by Christopher Flavelle

Death Takes a Holiday

Death Takes a Holiday

Field Notes | by Alisa Roth

Amateurs Like Us

Amateurs Like Us

Those incredible men and women and their sort of doable, not-too-daunting feats
Culture | by Hal Niedzviecki

TwitterFacebookRSS
On newsstands now
New Issue on Sale
September 2010
Subscribe online for less than $2.98 an issue. Visit The Walrus Store to buy a print of the cover
The Walrus Blog