Heather Mallick
Canadian news columnist formerly CBC, newspapers, magazines etc. author, feminist, bookish person, centre-left. @heathermallick.substack
- Substack should stop recommending Zuckerberg siblings to me. It’s makes me angry. They ate our lives and took our jobs; I don’t want to read anything from that family.
- Note that this study uses a characterization of autism so broad that it covers almost everyone. Overdiagnosis and medicalization in action. It’s not clear what its purpose is.
- Autism has long been viewed as a condition that predominantly affects male individuals, but this new study shows that autism may actually occur at comparable rates among male and female individuals #BMJResearch www.bmj.com/content/392/...
- The Gardiner Museum in downtown Toronto is remarkable. It’s a small Canadian gallery bursting with ceramic beauty, sitting in what has become a crass American retail wasteland for rich tourists.
- OMG.
- Charged with drug-dealing, and beating and raping unconscious women, the jobless son of a Norwegian princess facing possible 16 years in prison says he resented media attention, life unfair. www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
- The hands are perfect, which I only mention because hands are said to be difficult. But one leg is obviously too short; a thigh seems to have gone AWOL. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's portrait had the same problem. I get a sense of panic rising in the artist; it's invisible no one will notice
- Also, it doesn't look like Stephen Harper's face. And the hair is wrong wrong all wrong. This is one bad portrait. I'm surprised Harper didn't do a Winston Churchill. I know the room is packed with the dull men of Ottawa but was there an actual unveiling and a gasp?
- Thanks to the loathsome Bezos after he destroyed actual bookstores, I can no longer obtain British books in Canada on Amazon without huge shipping fees. AbeBooks was once great. He bought that. He bought everything bookish. I order from Blackwell’s now, good independent Brits but for how long?
- Austrian-Canadian Frank Stronach, 93, hired a young blonde female lawyer. Men facing serial sex crime charges always do this. It's a niche legal specialty not based on talent, not clear why women agree to serve. www.cbc.ca/news/frank-s...
- What the hell is a “carceral leftist”?
- Given that sexting scandal, why would the University of Toronto invite ex-Ontario Conservative Tony Clement for a "fireside chat" event for young students? I know my beloved U of T means well but it has a duty of care surely. shorturl.at/Q6JCR @utoronto.ca alumni.utoronto.ca/events/share...
- These days I would ask older men not to share their spark, frankly. Not great phrasing. Another example: the BBC has a disability site called Ouch. alumni.utoronto.ca/events/share...
