6 tips for editing your own work — and why you should solicit feedback from others
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January 27th, 2021Be honest: if you sent me a piece of your writing, and I sent it back marked up like the page at the right, would you feel insulted? I know […]
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November 18th, 2020Twitter and Facebook have a lot to answer for: rampant misinformation, spiralling conspiracy theories, plummeting productivity. (And that’s just in my family!) But I fear social media echo chambers are […]
read more...4 tips for moving past mere ranting to effective persuasionWhen it is (and isn’t) useful to focus on your feelings
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October 20th, 2020I cry easily, whoop at the end of dance performances and am passionate about my work. My partner would tell you it’s not possible to have a conversation with me […]
read more...When it is (and isn’t) useful to focus on your feelingsMy first op ed… on the Miss Canada beauty pageant
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July 7th, 2020Don’t stop me, even if you have heard this one before: It’s 1992. I’ve just joined the board of MediaWatch, Informed Opinions’ predecessor. A TV reporter calls to say the […]
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April 6th, 2020In Stalinist Russia, poet Anna Akhmatova’s husband was shot and her son imprisoned. Every day for months she stood outside the prison walls begging for word about her son’s fate. […]
read more...“Poet, can you write this?” We need to write the post-coronavirus reality we want nowRelentless change-maker Nobina Robinson: more than 3 dozen op eds in 6 years
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October 19th, 2018You may not recognize her name, but chances are high that you’ve been influenced – if only indirectly – by her informed opinions. Nobina Robinson attended one of our Writing […]
read more...Relentless change-maker Nobina Robinson: more than 3 dozen op eds in 6 years9 tips to improve the chances of getting your op ed published
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July 18th, 2018In the dog days of summer 2017, when many people were at the beach, or glued to the media coverage of Charlottesville’s neo-Nazi march and the shocking response from the […]
read more...9 tips to improve the chances of getting your op ed publishedWhose attention would you most like to attract?
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April 12th, 2017Gloria Steinem… senior bureaucrats… somebody who funds the kind of work you do? Whose attention would you most like to attract? In recent years, Canadian women writing timely, engaging […]
read more...Whose attention would you most like to attract?“They read my entire op-ed in the debate!”
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August 9th, 2016“I nearly fell out of my chair,” laughs Janet McLaughlin, recalling her shock upon hearing the Leader of the Opposition publicly quote her in the Ontario legislature. The House was […]
read more...“They read my entire op-ed in the debate!”How to leverage 700 words for maximum impact
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November 10th, 2015Is it possible to draw attention to egregious sexism, make clear the consequences of rape myths, and place a judge under review in a single op ed? Yes on all […]
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