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Heather Mallick

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Staff columnist Heather Mallick writes an op-ed column on Mondays and Wednesdays, as well as a Saturday news column on a wide range of subjects. She has published two books, a diary called Pearls in Vinegar for Penguin and a collection of essays called Cake or Death for Knopf. She has won two National Newspaper Awards in the features and critical writing categories.

Berlin brothel bust reveals job hypocrisy: Mallick

Fri Apr 15 2016

Whether it’s prostitutes or Uber drivers, we’re seeing a fight over what people can be tricked into doing ever more cheaply.
A month of poetry could do us good: Mallick

Mon Apr 11 2016

It's National Poetry Month. Rejoice.
Couch potatoes of Canada, unite: Mallick

Fri Apr 08 2016

We accept the awfulness of flying because we worship the god of cheap. But cable is awful, and it isn’t cheap at all.
I visited the world’s museums on Twitter. It was good: Mallick

Wed Apr 06 2016

#MuseumWeek was a canny choice for Twitter, one of the least civilized places on the internet.
You’re pretty pale yourself, Ryerson: Mallick

Fri Apr 01 2016

If the Ryerson Review is so concerned about diversity in Canadian media, it should take a look at the faculty that helps put the magazine out
In Horkins's court, women must not get angry: Mallick

Sat Mar 26 2016

Judge William Horkins had a number of words for the three women in the Ghomeshi trial and their testimony: “mythologizing,” “excited,” “odd,” “wanting to be a heroine,” “deceptive,” “manipulative.” In each case, he missed the point.
Bad-acting senators should pay up or resign: Mallick

Wed Mar 23 2016

What to do about senators like Colin Kenny who live in an alternate fattened galaxy
Fear and loathing in Trumpland: Mallick

Mon Mar 21 2016

An investigation into the sources of the hate and rage on display at rallies for Donald Trump
When fighting the death penalty is heartless: Mallick

Fri Mar 18 2016

The tragedy in the failed execution case is Tryna Middleton, a tiny 14-year-old girl who was kidnapped in 1984 as she was walking home from a Cleveland football game with two 13-year-old girlfriends.
On privacy and the ‘it’s all about me’ generation: Mallick

Wed Mar 16 2016

Privacy is a personal asset, yes, but only candour helps the rest of us forage, survive, treat each other with gentleness
Miserable, watched workers rebel in small ways: Mallick

Mon Mar 14 2016

The nightmarish reports from Amazon’s warehouses show that constant surveillance in the workplace yields a culture of passive-aggression
Our relaxed PM is comfortable with candour — and just being himself: Mallick

Sat Mar 12 2016

Could the source of Justin Trudeau's energy be his authenticity?
Can we cope with solitary city life?: Mallick

Wed Mar 09 2016

Olivia Laing's new book, The Lonely City, explores life inside our own heads. Is city life damaging us?
Politicians maintain Calais Jungle to frighten voters: Mallick

Mon Mar 07 2016

As French and British politicians use the miserable migrant camp in Calais to score political points, its inhabitants persist in impossible dreams
Republicans don’t get female body they want to control: Mallick

Fri Mar 04 2016

Candidates Donald Trump and Marco Rubio talking about private parts points to a larger, historical problem with the GOP.
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VideoThe Men of the Oscars humiliate a brilliant woman: Mallick

Wed Mar 02 2016

The treatment of British costume designer Jenny Beavan as she won her Oscar for Mad Max: Fury Road was profoundly awful
How dark money may choose the next U.S president: Mallick

Mon Feb 29 2016

Journalist Jane Mayer's new book, Dark Money, shows how billions from the radical right have swallowed U.S. democracy.
Saks Fifth Avenue and the depressing spread of fashion standardization: Mallick

Wed Feb 24 2016

Standardization afflicts New York, London, Paris and Toronto. It is forever creeping outward and swallowing local stores in the night
How to get through our first post-Jon Stewart winter: Mallick

Mon Feb 22 2016

For those who mourn the Colbert Report and Jon Stewart’s Daily Show, Heather Mallick offers a few suggestions
New kinds of school shootings demand new rules: Mallick

Fri Feb 19 2016

It isn't evil kids shooting up schools now, it's also once-peaceful ones. We need new controls on gun access.