OTTAWA—This week marks my three-year anniversary writing for the Hill Times and five years of writing in general, in addition to five years of producing, writing, recording, and curating political and pop culture content for the Bad + Bitchy podcast. In this time, the...
OTTAWA—What a patriarchal budget from a so-called “feminist.” It just goes to show you can’t girl-boss your way out of neoliberalism. On Thursday, April 7, Canada’s first female minister of finance, who bathes herself in the feminism identity, rose in the House of...
OTTAWA—Let’s continue in our next chapter of Nazi Acceptability Politics (I need to trademark this), or what I like to call taking a NAP in the face of the rising influence of the far right. Today’s episode features the Canadian media industrial complex that is...
OTTAWA—Seems like I just dislodged myself enough from Candice Bergen’s socialist backdoor to realize that something just shifted in Canadian politics—and not soon enough. Late Monday night, CBC reported that the Liberals and the NDP entered into a supply and...
Deleted Chrystia Freeland TweetOTTAWA—As I sit here writing this column on the third anniversary of the massacre in Christchurch, New Zealand—driven by Islamophobic, white supremacist ideology—it’s come to my attention how far we’ve fallen as western societies....
OTTAWA—It is International Women’s Day as I write this and I’m already tired. So far, in 2022, we have lived through more COVID, an occupation by white supremacists, and now a conflict/war in Ukraine that everyone but me is tuned into. Where is feminism? Since 2016,...
OTTAWA—I didn’t want to write about this topic, but every time I try to get out, white supremacy just pulls me back in. There has been a lot of Russian disinformation accompanying their invasion of Ukraine, an accoutrement to the ground war. Russia’s pretext to the...
OTTAWA—#MakeOttawaBoringAgain is closer to a reality after a weekend of arrests and removals of convoy occupiers. Only, we didn’t win anything. In fact, we lost. We are lost. As the waters recede, what is left is a white supremacist, authoritarian movement that has...
OTTAWA—I listened to Ram Ranch by Grant MacDonald, so you don’t have to. When our leaders tapped out of this occupation, it became the swan song for a resistance that is brewing in Ottawa that preceded the Trudeau government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act. On...
