We need to meet this dark moment with more diversity, not less
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March 26th, 2025On one important political measure, Canada has more in common with Zimbabwe, Equatorial Guinea and Mali than Norway, Denmark and Iceland. Along with the first three countries you may know […]
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May 10th, 2023“Women who get c-sections are pussies.” This mind-blowingly ignorant pronouncement was made by a Calgary high school teacher to his biology students. Not last century, but this year. Does thinking […]
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December 4th, 2018Did you hear about the woman who left her small fortune to a potted plant because it was “the only thing that listened to her”? As relatable as the sentiment […]
read more...How will we spend the $1 trillion coming our way?Frances McDormand and my Oscar fantasy: the Unvarnished Truth of Women’s Faces
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February 25th, 2018When Frances McDormand accepted her Golden Globe in January, her dramatic performance in Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri wasn’t the only thing that made her stand out. At a […]
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January 31st, 2018Eight years ago, I penned the following op ed for the Ottawa Citizen on the occasion of the previous government’s brief flirtation with changing the lyrics of O Canada to […]
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October 11th, 2011Posting content to a blog may have gotten Julie Powell a book deal that in turn lead to an international best seller and a blockbuster movie (starring Meryl Streep, no […]
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