Heather Mallick

Toronto

Staff Columnist at The (Toronto) Star

Currently Toronto Star staff columnist, author, winner of 2NNAs + feminist Landsberg Award. [email protected]

Articles

Wayne Gretzky, hockey and our stomach for Trump-adjacency

1 month ago | thespec.com | Heather Mallick

As U.S. President Donald Trump pushes forward, his sanity dubious and his urge to punish almost Stalinesque, Canadians reject him in ever greater numbers. Canada is our nation. It will remain so. Which brings us to a new phase in Canadian life: who has let us down. We don’t like Trump. And we don’t like Trump-adjacency. When we see it, we speak up. Wayne Gretzky was always Trump-adjacent.
Wayne Gretzky, hockey and our stomach for Trump-adjacency

1 month ago | wellandtribune.ca | Heather Mallick

As U.S. President Donald Trump pushes forward, his sanity dubious and his urge to punish almost Stalinesque, Canadians reject him in ever greater numbers. Canada is our nation. It will remain so. Which brings us to a new phase in Canadian life: who has let us down. We don’t like Trump. And we don’t like Trump-adjacency. When we see it, we speak up. Wayne Gretzky was always Trump-adjacent.
Trump is threatening invasion of our country. Should you panic? Yes of course. But it won’t help

2 months ago | stcatharinesstandard.ca | Heather Mallick

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Trump is threatening invasion of our country. Should you panic? Yes of course. But it won’t help

2 months ago | thespec.com | Heather Mallick

If Canadians seem worried right now, the avalanche that the Trusk/Mump administration has set rolling down the mountain towards us suggests it would really be more rational to panic. Who wants to be the orchestra playing as the Titanic broke in two? Unhook those lifeboats.
This is our country. I took a late-night walk in the snow to remember just how lucky we are

2 months ago | thespec.com | Heather Mallick

Snowstorm alert! Snow calls out to me. Because I am Canadian. Canadians wholly of Toronto — all flat roads and right angles — think of shovelling and driving conditions, of meetings missed and near-misses, of heated car seats and road rage nursed as your rear fatly warms. But Torontonians from northern Canada like me — call me a local yokel and I’ll happily answer “here!” — look at snowstorms differently. Snow is not a surprise but a gift.
Here’s the first thing you should ditch in this Trump era

2 months ago | wellandtribune.ca | Heather Mallick

The first thing to ditch in the Trump era is wishful thinking. What a pleasant and useful habit it was, buffering us from reality like those padded blankets that line the freight elevator at work. Ditch it. U.S. President Donald Trump doesn’t like any individual, favours no foreign nation, and takes only a brief pleasure in seeing them all grovel.
Here’s the first thing you should ditch in this Trump era

2 months ago | thespec.com | Heather Mallick

The first thing to ditch in the Trump era is wishful thinking. What a pleasant and useful habit it was, buffering us from reality like those padded blankets that line the freight elevator at work. Ditch it. U.S. President Donald Trump doesn’t like any individual, favours no foreign nation, and takes only a brief pleasure in seeing them all grovel.
Here’s the first thing you should ditch in this Trump era

2 months ago | stcatharinesstandard.ca | Heather Mallick

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It’s wartime. Do without. Shop locally

2 months ago | thespec.com | Heather Mallick

The trouble with writing about the American catastrophe is that it’s tough to zero in on what Canadians should do right now. Each hour brings worse news to claim our fragmented attention. It’s like getting ready to line up at the long Trump dispensary counter of cruelty, ignorance, corruption and violence, as comedian Stephen Colbert suggested, and every ticket from the machine says #1. So, we all rush in. We fill our bags which are too small to contain the latest wretched overflow of abominations.
When passion trumps reason, it’s fear that really rules

2 months ago | thespec.com | Heather Mallick

Dislike and suspicion of expertise used to be a mere right-wing attitude. Now it’s almost a militant tendency. Science and competent management are demeaned in favour of political stances. It’s the triumph of passion over reason. We are asked “how do you feel” about vaccines, bike lanes and highway tolls rather than “what do you think.” This approach is doing immense damage.

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