Brigitte Pellerin

Go ahead, break something

OK, so I snorted pretty hard when I saw the headline on that story. Telling kids to go ahead and break an arm is not my idea of parenting, and I sure was

The week, the law, the bylaw

In my Ottawa Citizen column this week I talk about an idea whose time, finally, is coming: Giving legal personhood to natural phenomena worth protecting. Like the Magpie River in Quebec – the subject

Le projet Gabrielle-Roy, prise un

English will follow and be different from the French because the older I get the more pleasure I take in writing in two languages. As usual I invite my bilingual readers to enjoy