Category: Columnists
Baranyai: Judging women by appearance persists
Agnes Macphail stepped into the public eye in 1921 as Canada’s first female Member of Parliament. She was a progressive with big ideas and a sharp wit. In the press, she was alternately berated for frequently wearing the same serviceable blue dress, or skewered for trying on something fashionable. Things on that score haven’t gotten […]
Pearson: Here’s to the quiet life
We have become strangely suspicious of quiet lives. We celebrate the person who has built something enormous, who rises quickly, speaks boldly, accumulates accomplishments and leaves behind evidence they were here. We measure lives by scale. We ask what someone achieved, what they earned, and what they became. And yet, there is an older possibility, […]
Dyer: Elections in Ukraine, not prudent or realistic
“Democracy cannot be held hostage by Russia,” said Mihaylo Fedorov, until recently Ukraine’s defence minister. “We must find a legal, safe and realistic mechanism which will allow Ukraine to renew its full democratic process even in the conditions of a long war.” Seven years after the last election, some Ukrainians are demanding a new one. […]
Baranyai: Jamaica-gate turns spotlight on Tory spying
Every oppo researcher must have a nightmare, and I bet it looks a lot like what’s unfolding in Ontario right now.
Dyer: Climate change reality still not spurring action
We have been talking about where climate-change deniers are going now blank disbelief is no longer viable.