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.
- honestly can't keep track of all the brilliant, invaluable writers the Washington Post has let go this morning, but I cannot recall in my lifetime a once-great publication so purposefully shooting itself in the face
- Other newspapers in the U.S. and Canada emptied these departments years ago, which makes it even stranger that WaPo is doing it today. Most of those newspapers died as a result or are dying now.
- 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?
- Every complaint I had against Chomsky concerned the same problem: the way he excused or dismissed atrocities committed by his team: ie regimes and forces opposed to Western hegemonic power. As his friend, Epstein was given the same pass. In other words, it's not an anomaly. It's the same story.
- 1. Noam Chomsky's response to the first tranche of Epstein docs - arrogant, high-handed, obfuscatory and, we now know, dishonest - reminded me of something: his response to my questions about genocide denial, 15 years ago. 🧵 www.monbiot.com/2012/05/21/2...
- I feel sick about this. Chomsky says “genocide” is inflated, #meToo is absurd? So many men I once admired are brought to dust. But the loss of women’s privacy in the gender campaigns is brushed aside by the left as well. I wonder what Chomsky would say if asked. I despair of my former idols.
