Mallory Richard

Plaid! Parkas! Patriotism!

Assume for a moment that there is such thing as a “Canadian identity.” I, perhaps naively, would like to imagine that it is complex, subtle…


Flirting with equality

Every now and then I feel as if Prime Minister Stephen Harper is justified in allegedly maintaining a gag order or a tight leash on…


Sorry About the AIDS

In 1924, Raoul Dandurand expressed a common Canadian worldview to the League of Nations when he described Canada as “a fireproof house far from the…