June 2012

June 2012Chris Turner reconsiders Calgary, the city thats no longer, simply, Cowtown; John Lorinc visits the University of Torontos Citizen Lab; in a visual essay, Roger LeMoyne and Sean Michaels explain how Montreal became the circus capital of the world; Anne Casselman ponders whether the Cadborosaurus is real; David Sax profiles Giller Prize winner Vincent Lam; The Walrus Reads seven new titles of note; fiction by Mike Barnes; poetry by Ken Babstock and

fiction by Wayne Johnson

Name: “Kissers (Cherry Blossoms)”

Pascal Colpron blogs about his life

Thirty years after HIV/AIDS was first identified

Kali Ciesemier teaches illustration at the Maryland Institute College of Art

Artist: Joanne Ratajczak is completing a book-length project documenting contemporary Poland

Jesse Brown asks who holds journalists to account in Canada

to go along with its blank CD tariff

Eamon Mac Mahon photographs our boreal forest

David Berlin considers proposed solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and finds cause for hope in the Geneva Accord

to the appetizers at Vij’s and the strollers in Kitsilano

Lorraine Spiess scrutinizes the Chinese government’s secretive response to the SARS outbreak