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October 2009
The Age of Breathing Underwater
by Chris Turner
Environmentalists have long struggled to save Nature from humanity’s negligence — and still we’ve reached the brink of catastrophe. How can we learn to thrive in the climate we’ve created? The answer begins beneath the sea...…[more]illustration by Balint Zsako
Memoir
Cause and Effect
by Lynn Cunningham
Fetal alcohol syndrome is preventable, incurable, and surprisingly common. Still, it brought me Boop, who has redefined my life…[more]
Media
The Most Hated Name in News
by Deborah Campbell
Can Al Jazeera English cure what ails North American journalism?…[more]
More Stories in this issue
Editor's Note
Editor’s Note
by John Macfarlane
Introducing the October 2009 issue of The Walrus…[more]
Visual Art
The Secret
by Brett Grainger
The Group of Seven’s infatuation with the occult mysticism of Madame Blavatsky…[more]
Fiction
Long Live Annie B.
by Lee Henderson
Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.
— Talmud…[more]
Online Exclusive
Q&A;: Buck 65
by Dave Morris
An interview with CBC Radio 2 host Rich Terfry about his hip hop alter ego…[more]
Profile
The Glad Scientist
by Dan Falk
A Vatican astronomer explains why science and religion are a match made in heaven…[more]
Radio
This Right Here Is Rich Terfry
by Dave Morris
The man also known as rapper Buck 65 becomes the voice of CBC Radio 2’s endlessly controversial makeover…[more]
Field Notes
Gaga For Gags
by Nicholas Hune-Brown
Behind the scenes of Canada's hidden-camera hit, Just for Laughs Gags…[more]
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