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The Walrus
Newsletter · June 26, 2014

Make your mark on Canada Day, and show your support for The Walrus, great Canadian storytelling, and forums for conversation on matters vital to Canadians. Give today, and help sustain a home for the best Canadian writers, artists, and ideas.

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Stand Down

JUSTICE by John Lorinc

All too often, the victims of police shootings are people with mental illness. One American city has found a solution


“February 3, 2012. Morning. The last seventy-two seconds of Michael Eligon’s life.

10:08:59 The dashboard camera of a Toronto police cruiser shows a uniformed officer running down a tree-lined residential street, away from the camera, as the police radio crackles. Other cops are visible farther down the block, sprinting up driveways and into backyards.”

Read now or listen to the podcast


The Trials of Philip Halliday

CRIME by Noah Richler

Did an out-of-work fisherman from Digby knowingly smuggle one and a half tons of cocaine into Spain?

“Six days out of Antigua, at 25° N, 45° W, Philip Halliday took a break from his watchkeeping aboard the Destiny Empress, a 190-foot former Canadian Coast Guard vessel that he and a crew of seven were sailing from the Caribbean to Spain on behalf of her new owner, an investor named Peter Berkey based in Malaga.” 

Read now

 

The Walrus Store


This year’s beautiful Summer Reading issue cover art, by Montreal-born, Vancouver-based artist and illustrator Roxanna Bikadoroff, is all over our web store.  

Buy a T-shirt, tote bag, or limited-edition print, and make summer last forever.



Aboriginal Arts & Stories
2014 Winners Announced 


This year’s recipients were selected from more than 400 submissions across Canada. Congratulations to the first-place winners.

Senior writing: Aviaq Johnston of Iqaluit, Nunavut
Junior writing: Andrea Lanouette of Surrey, British Columbia
Senior art: Nicole Paul of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
Junior art: Mercedes Sandy of Christian Island, Ontario

The Aboriginal Arts & Stories contest celebrated its tenth anniversary by adding two new awards: the Enbridge Emerging Writer and Enbridge Emerging Artist categories, for youth between the ages of eleven and thirteen.

You can see all of the winning art and creative writing at our-story.ca.

 

Last Chance to Enter


Contest closes June 30

The Walrus Foundation is delighted to announce the third annual $5,000 Walrus Poetry Prize, generously supported by the Hal Jackman Foundation. Award-winning poet Amanda Jernigan (All the Daylight Hours) will choose this year’s winner from a short list that Walrus poetry editor Michael Lista will select. Previous winners are Kateri Lanthier (2013) and Méira Cook (2012). The Readers’ Choice Award—chosen by you—will open for voting on September 1.

Submit your poem at thewalrus.ca/poetry-prize

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