The Future of Food by Scott McKowen

The Future of Food <span>by Scott McKowen</span>The October 2011 cover of The Walrus. Read Scott McKowens interview with Walrus art director Brian Morgan about the making of this cover here. Cover prints are exclusive, professionally printed copies of our award winning magazine covers. These custom ordered prints include cover art and the Walrus wordmark, but are free of all other decoration. They are reproduced on high quality archival paper, and are available framed or unframed. Standard cover

Christopher Pollon on the troubling rise of the payday-loan industry

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Don Gillmor considers the implications of Alberta’s considerable oil reserves in a climate of increasing scarcity

Michael Enright learns to skate at sixty

Artist: Johan Hallberg-Campbell curates for Pikto Gallery in Toronto

Jaime Hogge and Ian Brown ponder Down syndrome in the age of prenatal testing

Allan Gregg argues that Paul Martin’s health accord threatens Canada’s national unity

The third in our series of four special edition covers celebrating Vancouver for the March 2010 issue of The Walrus

Adele Weder ponders the future of wooden skyscrapers

Chris Tenove questions the helpfulness of celebrity charity for Africa

Bruce McCall is an author and illustrator best known for his work with The New Yorker

fiction by Austin Clarke