7 days ago by Karon Liu

Laptop, tea and cake at a café (not pictured: jerk) (Photo by Nicki Dugan) When not referring to Black Hoof co-owner Grant van Gameren as “Greg,” the Globe and Mail has been sticking it to “freelance hipsters.” On Friday, columnist Leah McLaren lamented the loss of café culture due to “MacBook-totin ...

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16 days ago by Max Fawcett

Picking on the work of Leah McLaren is such simple sport that I might be risking the wrath of the BC Human Rights Tribunal in doing so here. But it’s worth the risk, given the self-serving garbage that she subjected readers to in her Saturday Globe and Mail column this weekend. That McLaren wrote a ...

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39 days ago by David Regan

Unsentimental Leah McLaren gives up red meat. Don’t get me wrong, I have no interest in becoming a vegetarian. Vegetarianism, in my view, is a seriously unattractive character trait. Having majored in liberal arts at university, I’ve encountered my fair share of sanctimonious zealots keen to lecture ...

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99 days ago by ywcahamiltonvoices

I read an eye-opening article in the Globe and Mail today. Journalist Leah McLaren argues that despite some “good news” for women this week (“…the salaries of recent female business graduates narrowly exceeded those of their male counterparts for the first time. .. the Shriver Report found that half ...

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105 days ago by Alison Potstra

Globe and Mail columnist Leah McLaren is the latest public figure to opine on the state of Can Lit. Prompted by this year’s awards season, McLaren takes the discussion one step further (or, perhaps backward) by flat-out refusing to read any nominated titles. Beyond wondering who does Annabel Lyon’s ...

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144 days ago by Jen McNeely

Shinan Govani at the launch party for his new book, Boldface Names (Photo by Jen McNeely) Amidst TIFF hoopla, the National Post’s society and celebrity ink slinger, Shinan Govani, held a launch for his book Boldface Names at the Holts Café—an event that seemed to procure more boldface names than Van ...

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194 days ago by janesay

The west coast is having an unusually long heat wave. I’m not a big fan of excessive heat. It leaves me lazy and torpid. I have been reading a lot, as I can do that in a cool bath. I have recently finished the following: Angelica by Sharon Shinn, The Queen in Winter by Lynn Kurland, Sharon Shinn, Cl ...

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199 days ago by Jenn Jilks

I am so insulted! There have been some great days this past month. I love the changing days. Muskoka is one of the beautiful places to be in this world. I read: Muskoka's sodden summer of discontent This year, the Ontario cottageocracy doesn't deserve your envy Don't read it! Back away and resist th ...

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