Heather Mallick

I used to have the sincere mien of Chrystia Freeland saving Canada’s economy, but in 2025, I’m more of a Kim Wexler living in liminal land, writing catalogue copy for

It's as if everything Gary Shteyngart predicted in his fiction 15 years ago is coming true and being read by Anderson Cooper as current news: an angry President Xi; the

Your body maybe a gift from God, but it's a gift that might be radiant with polio, measles, diphtheria, mumps, chickenpox, Hepatitis B, or whooping cough.

It is either shocking to hear or extremely obvious that almost nothing we put in Toronto’s 10,500 ugly plastic public two-slotted litter bins is recycled. Your opinion depends on whether

There is no bad intent in the glassy nonentities that jam Toronto’s sightlines, only timidity and provincialism.

Science is under fire and out of fashion in the U.S. I write about this year’s Igs out of nostalgia for an era when science was so huge and helpful

McKenna, a mother of three young children, survived a frightening and ugly era when American-style woman-hating vitriol, street swarming and violent attacks floated north to make Canadian politics near-intolerable.

Previously our salvation lay in the fact that there was too much data on humans for other humans to track. AI will end that. Everything you have ever done will

Substack is one of the few places left where mainstream people can comfortably talk about politics and art, books, design, food, history and music. It's also a place that recommends

The minutely beautiful Paisley Snail concept has been huge in consumer law. But the concept hasn’t really caught on in the self-proclaimedly individualist U.S. where Donoghue would likely be accused