The Column
The writers’ organization , PEN, is giving an award to Charlie Hebdo magazine. Six prominent writers are protesting. What’s at stake?
This year, Margaret Wente thinks professors aren’t working enough. The underworked Stan Persky checks it out.
Brian Fawcett, in the cold after Toronto’s ice storm, has some things to say, and some questions for the City of Toronto and its electrical ultility.
Stan Persky presses the TV power button to discover some dead ducks.
Dan Gawthrop is keeping an eye on Pope Francis.
Feminist theorist Judith Butler delivers a post-gay commencement address in Montreal.
In Norbert Ruebsaat’s Media Studies column, a teacher and student discuss “God.”
What are those students doing, under the table, down in their laps? Norbert Ruebsaat investigates.
Tom Flanagan, remember him? Probably not, if the news and spin cycle has passed you by.