5. Gender - Brigitte Pellerin (Page 3)

09 Jan 2024 6 min read

Retour sur la serveuse automate, or why conservatives prefer women be exhausted all the time

A follow-up piece on that recent video from Pierre Poilievre in which he discussed extraordinary Canadians like electricians who wield lightning, farmers who master all kinds of science and waitresses who, technically, should

03 Jan 2024 3 min read

Weird beliefs of the conservative mind

The magic happens approximately two minutes into this video that Pierre Poilievre tweeted earlier today and man, the fun we’ve been having deconstructing that. Here's to the (extra)ordinary Canadians.

22 Dec 2023 3 min read

Let's talk

It’s difficult to be festive these days, what with so much nonsense happening everywhere and a dramatic rise in hate crimes right in this town. In my Ottawa Citizen column this week

08 Dec 2023 3 min read

Shhh, and no spitting please

In my Ottawa Citizen column this week I discuss the role we’re asking public libraries to play when we cut services elsewhere and generally privatize everything. This was prompted by a news

29 Nov 2023 4 min read

Victim heal thyself — and while you're at it, pull yourself up by the bootstraps

There are few areas of law where victims get revictimized so routinely as those that involve sexual abuse or intimate partner violence. Or both. Where else do we make victims relive, repeatedly and