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December 2009

Zero Sum

by Mary Rogan

In implementing zero tolerance for sexual abuse, has the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario become a source of harm to the patients it’s trying to protect?

Illustration by Alain Pilon

A Sorry State

by Mitch Miyagawa

Canada is becoming a world leader in official apologies. Do they benefit anyone but the people offering them up?

Walking the Way

by Timothy Taylor

A tale of endurance, remonstrance, and remembrance on the pilgrim’s trail in Spain

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Editor’s Note

by John Macfarlane

Introducing the December 2009 issue of The Walrus

Green Giants

by Tim McKeough

How urban planners are turning industrial eyesores into popular public spaces

Mind Over Matter

by Alex Hutchinson

Keeping a place for thought experiments in an empirical age

Birthright

by Katie Addleman

Is giving young Jews a taste of the homeland the best way to save Judaism?

Castro’s Favourite Capitalist

by Rachel Pulfer

Will Sherritt International come to regret dealing with Communist Cuba? CEO Ian Delaney doesn’t think so

Dogfight

by Alex Halperin

Reckoning with the RCMP’s involvement in the demise of the Inuit sled dog

December 2009 Image Gallery

by The Walrus Contributors

Photographs and illustrations from the magazine. » View Photo Gallery «

The Museum of Sound

by Adam Sol

On the ground floor, near the gift shop, is the mechanical wing, with sections for vehicles, factories, heavy equipment, and office machinery. A

Kawabata

by André Alexis

In late april, Bernard Crowe volunteered to lead a few men north to survey the brush around Nagagami Lake. He left for

The Maestro

by John Keillor

Montreal’s young classical superstar, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, takes his place on the world stage

Dances with Werewolves

by Jessica Johnson

Kelley Armstrong celebrates the animal within

Where the Wild Things Were

by Emily Landau

A retrospective of werewolves in popular culture. » View Photo Gallery «

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