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June 2009


How Google Unconquered The World

How Google Unconquered The World

by Jon Evans
Google’s new Android mobile phone, and why Apple lost the ball (again)

Waiting for a New Day

International Affairs

Waiting for a New Day

Scenes from Afghan life in wartime » View Photo Gallery «

No Small Mercy

International Affairs

No Small Mercy

How a Rwandan genocide survivor made peace with the man who almost killed her

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June 2009

Letters

June 2009

Readers’ letters on porn and Barack Obama


Canadian Primal

Literature

Canadian Primal

Five poet-thinkers redefine our relationship to nature


Consumed

Frontier

Consumed

New research gets at the root of our celebrity obsession


Editor’s Note

Editor's Note

Editor’s Note

Junk science, credibility, and the race to save the environment


The Walrus Presents...

Comics

The Walrus Presents...

Hockey, torture, and the Don Cherry Doctrine


Land of the Lost

Online Exclusive

Land of the Lost

A gallery of creatures, plants and other strangenesses. » View Photo Gallery «


The Prodigal Preacher

Firsthand

The Prodigal Preacher

A grandson contemplates a patriarch who favoured the company of strangers


Crossing the Dezadeash, Haines Junction

Poetry

Crossing the Dezadeash, Haines Junction

A new poem by Jan Zwicky


Stephen Harper

Humour

Stephen Harper

A short biography of our great Prime Minister


Water Everywhere, 1982

Fiction

Water Everywhere, 1982

An excerpt from Lisa Moore’s new novel, February, published by Anansi.


The Peace Plus One Social Club

Field Notes

The Peace Plus One Social Club

Inside the budding Chinese environmental movement


The Case for Europe

July Issue Preview

The Case for Europe

As Europe swings to the right, BBC journalist Nick Fraser asks: is the EU worth saving?


An Inconvenient Talk

Environment

An Inconvenient Talk

Dave Hughes’s guide to the end of the fossil fuel age


Off the Rails

Transport

Off the Rails

How Canada fell from leader to laggard in high-speed rail, and why that needs to change


Man with a Movie Camera

Visual Art

Man with a Movie Camera

Canada’s Mark Lewis launches an ambitious (and expensive) project for the Venice Biennale


Extreme Giving

Society

Extreme Giving

For the Haida of the Pacific Northwest, the potlach is still at the centre of a culture of in which you are what you give


Chop Chop Square

Field Notes

Chop Chop Square

Inside Saudi Arabia’s brutal justice system


Back In Palookaville

Books

Back In Palookaville

Cartoonist and designer Seth emerges as comics’ premier historian


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