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Marsha Lederman

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The slogans coming out of the Israel-Hamas war do not tell the whole story

Pro-Palestinian activists at their encampment on the McGill University campus in Montreal on May 1. Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press War is hell:...

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In difficult times for humanity, animals can unite us

A two-year-old female orca calf swims in Little Espinosa Inlet near Zeballos, B.C. on, April 19. Chad Hipolito/The Associated Press Finally, on...

01.05.2024 20

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An ode to independent Canadian bookstores

A customer browses at Type Books in Toronto. In 2023, independent bookstore sales, tracked by BookNet Canada, made up 11.3 per cent of print-book...

26.04.2024 10

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Anonymizing a review of the new Taylor Swift album sends the wrong message

23.04.2024 10

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Jewish students are being forced to weigh a new factor when choosing universities

Demonstrators protest in solidarity with Pro-Palestinian organizers on the Columbia University campus, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and...

19.04.2024 60

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Femicide is an epidemic at home and abroad

17.04.2024 10

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Conservative MPs display statesmanlike behaviour – not!

Charlie Angus has been a member of Parliament for 20 years. First elected as MP for Timmins-James Bay in 2004, he had been encouraged to run by...

11.04.2024 30

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Online scams have reached epidemic levels

The e-mail arrived during a wintry spring (“spring”) break road trip through southern Ontario: Changes have been made to your Aeroplan account, it...

05.04.2024 10

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Israeli-Palestinian groups bring their hopeful fights for peace to Canada

It has been nearly six months since the horrific Hamas attacks of Oct. 7 triggered a catastrophic war in Gaza. Thousands of Palestinians have been...

29.03.2024 8

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A literary magazine’s collapse reveals the censorship the Israel-Hamas war has wrought

There’s a story often told about Pablo Picasso’s Guernica. In black and white and shades of grey, his monumental anti-war mural depicts the...

14.03.2024 10

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The Kate photo chaos is a portent of things to come in this disinformation age

Something is rotten on the grounds of Windsor. As you no doubt know by now, the internet exploded Sunday with clues that a (British) Mother’s Day...

12.03.2024 5

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Ava DuVernay’s ‘Origin’ is the Oscar snub that matters

Ava DuVernay directs Origin, an adaptation of Isabel Wilkerson’s non-fiction book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. The film, which did not...

08.03.2024 8

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An ode to retail, in the wake of The Body Shop’s demise

The Body Shop’s Canadian woes seem to reek of parent-company mismanagement. The closure of 33 stores and the accompanying layoffs of more than 200...

06.03.2024 7

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Alabama’s IVF ruling marks another blow to women’s rights

Sarah Brown, from Birmingham, Ala., holds a sign in support of IVF treatments during a rally advocating for IVF rights outside the Alabama State House...

01.03.2024 10

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Two things you wouldn’t expect to find together: The National Ballet’s new season and a dog-feces incident

Spare a thought today for Canadian dance critics, the few who are left, anyway. On Wednesday, the National Ballet of Canada announced its 2024-25...

26.02.2024 9

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A modest proposal to start concerts earlier: Consider the olds

Madonna performs at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto on Jan. 11. Ricardo Gomes/Handout We were heading into lawsuit territory when Madonna hit the...

23.02.2024 8

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The Israel-Hamas war has done damage to artists and their freedoms

Shortly after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, the Frankfurt Book Fair cancelled an award presentation for Palestinian novelist Adania Shibli. It...

22.02.2024 9

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Protests outside hospitals should be off-limits

Two Toronto Police vehicles are parked outside Mount Sinai Hospital on Feb. 14. Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail Whether Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital...

16.02.2024 4

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Media cuts are not just depressing – they’re dangerous

In October, 2022, The Globe and Mail reported that the ArriveCan app was ballooning in cost and that most of the work had been awarded to a company...

13.02.2024 7

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King Charles has cancer - the type is none of our business

King Charles III speaks at an opening ceremony at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit on Dec. 1, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Rafiq Maqbool/The...

09.02.2024 5

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Naheed Nenshi feels like the leader Alberta needs right now

Former Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi speaks during a city council meeting in Calgary on Oct. 31, 2018. Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press In an...

07.02.2024 10

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It’s time for hockey parents to have The Talk – and for systemic change, too

It was a Friday night in early October, and our home team, the Vancouver Canucks, were playing the Calgary Flames in the final game of the preseason....

01.02.2024 10

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The alleged actions of some UNRWA workers are despicable. But aid must continue to flow to Gaza

A sign sits at the West Bank field office complex of UNRWA, in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem, on Jan. 30. AMMAR AWAD/Reuters Even...

31.01.2024 10

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Donald Trump would be the worst of presidents for the worst of times

Republican presidential candidate former U.S. president Donald Trump arrives at a primary election night party in Nashua, N.H., on Jan. 23. Matt...

26.01.2024 10

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‘The Zone of Interest’ proves that a Holocaust movie doesn’t need to show its horrors

Sandra Hüller in a scene from The Zone of Interest. The Associated Press Can you tell the story of Auschwitz without showing the horrors of...

24.01.2024 4

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Why are we making it so hard for Canadians to bring relatives here from Gaza?

While many of us this week were shovelling snow or deciding if we could afford to splurge on a head of lettuce, some of our Canadian neighbours were...

19.01.2024 8

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Vancouver’s PuSh Festival has a new nickname: The Push Over Festival

Playwright Christopher Morris performs during a production of his play, The Runner, at the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre. Dylan Hewlett/The Canadian...

16.01.2024 9

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Steven Galloway can have his day in court – but that will have consequences

The B.C. Court of Appeal ruled this week that Steven Galloway can sue his accuser and others who allegedly repeated sexual assault allegations against...

11.01.2024 5

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For Jewish Canadians, the number of places we feel unwelcome keeps growing

Supporters of Israel look on as a pro-Palestine rally takes place across a road in Calgary on Nov. 19, 2023. Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press The...

10.01.2024 10

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Toronto’s shameful renaming debacles

Not that we would ever make up the news, but this is the kind of news you could not make up. This month, Toronto City Council voted to rename...

29.12.2023 10

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A Christmas letter to the nation: It’s been an eventful year for the Canadian family

Dear Friends, It’s that time of year for our annual family Christmas letter – composed without the help of ChatGPT, we promise! We know that when...

23.12.2023 9

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At long last, we finally know the truth about the J.E.H. MacDonald sketches

Journalists love when a great story falls into their laps, and that’s what seemed to happen on Jan. 13, 2015, when the Vancouver Art Gallery...

15.12.2023 10

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This holiday season, it might be hard to feel festive

The festive season is upon us, friends. Perhaps your weekend is jammed with opportunities for holiday gaiety. Parties, parades, performances,...

09.12.2023 10

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In this time of division, can a restaurant like Bar Haifa bring us together?

As the first group of Israeli hostages were being released from Gaza last Friday, a new Palestinian/Israeli restaurant was preparing for its first...

02.12.2023 9

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The war in the Middle East is creating new divides in CanLit

A protester films herself as she interrupts the Scotiabank Giller Prize in Toronto, on Nov. 13. The ceremony was twice interrupted by anti-Israel...

30.11.2023 9

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The fall economic statement from my own family’s household ain’t pretty

Pursuant to the standing order of bills delivered monthly to this House, I have the honour to table, in one official language, this fall economic...

22.11.2023 10

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When should protest be considered offside?

A protester films herself as she interrupts the Scotiabank Giller Prize in Toronto, on Nov. 13. The ceremony was twice interrupted by anti-Israel...

17.11.2023 20

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Why do people hate Israel?

Marsha Lederman is a Globe and Mail columnist and the author of Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed. Last Saturday, I met a man named...

10.11.2023 9

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The One Where Matthew Perry Dies

I haven’t been sleeping very well lately. Maybe you can relate. The war in the Middle East has been the primary culprit; being a 50-something woman...

31.10.2023 7

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The cultural world is being ruptured by the Israel-Hamas war

An exhibitor holds the German edition of Minor Detail by Palestinian author Adania Shibli at The Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany on Oct. 19. KIRILL...

26.10.2023 2

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For Jewish people, the Hamas massacre has resurfaced painful family trauma

Families of the people kidnapped, as well as other supporters light memorial candles during a rally calling for the hostages to be brought home on...

25.10.2023 4

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Don’t fret just yet - literary journalism at the Banff Centre is expanding

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Banff, Alta. Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Of the tens of thousands of Globe and Mail stories I have...

20.10.2023 20

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Fear has replaced hope in Israel. That must be resisted

Israel’s national anthem is called Hatikvah: “The hope.” It’s hard to feel any hope at this moment, with so many deaths, including from that...

18.10.2023 5

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Canadian Jews are heartbroken - and extremely anxious about what will come

Talia Ben Sasson, right, and Ayellet Tzur attend a rally in support of Israel in Montreal, on Oct. 10. Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press ...

12.10.2023 1

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No, your Jewish and Palestinian friends are not doing okay

People light candles during a vigil for Israel in London, on Oct. 9, two days after Hamas fighters launched an unprecedented, multi-front attack on...

09.10.2023 7

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By playing gutter politics, the Manitoba PCs deserved to lose

Before the Manitoba Progressive Conservatives lost the election, they lost the plot. And their soul. When you are campaigning on not searching a...

05.10.2023 2

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Looking back on the Vancouver riot, when social media took public shaming to new heights

Vancouver Canucks fans riot at the corner of Hamilton Street and Georgia Street in Vancouver after the Boston Bruins won the Stanley Cup, June 15,...

05.10.2023 10

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In Poland, an outrage over a movie shows the government’s fear of both fact and fiction

Polish soldiers and a local dog walk along the border fence on the Polish-Belarusian border in Usnarz Gorny, Poland, on Aug. 30. KUBA STEZYCKI/Reuters...

28.09.2023 10

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The tribute to a Nazi in the House of Commons is an utter disgrace that could have easily been avoided

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recognize Yaroslav Hunka, who was in attendance, in the House of Commons in...

25.09.2023 10

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Indigo is essential to CanLit, for better or for worse

People browse books at an Indigo store in Toronto on Sept. 23, 2022. Christopher Katsarov/The Globe and Mail When Chapters first opened in Canada in...

22.09.2023 7

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