April 2007

April 2007John Lorinc describes the chronic distractions of living in the digital age, and what its consequences might be on our minds; Alison Gillmor questions the trend of attributing unconditional love, loyalty, and wisdom to dogs; Patrick White looks at the devastation wrought by the mountain pine beetle on BCs forests, and the temporary boon this has meant for the lumber business; fiction by Wayne Grady

Atif Rafay explores the meaning of freedom from within his prison cell

Read their interview with Walrus art director Brian Morgan about the making of this cover here

The cover of the June 2007 issue of The Walrus

Artist: Ningeokuluk Teevee

Lynn Cunningham writes a memoir on raising a grandson with fetal alcohol syndrome

Each limited-edition print is signed and numbered by the artist

new poetry by Sara Peters and John Reibetanz

Marian Botsford Fraser profiles Renée Acoby and the troubling conditions in Canada’s penal system for women

Mark Kingwell channels Barack Obama

an interactive gallery of Joanne Tod’s portraits of Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan

Alan Broadbent asks if Stephen Harper’s federal government will intervene in the fates of Canadian cities

Larry Frolick tells the story of a disastrous tidal wave reaching a small Thai village