The Column

Charlie Hebdo, PEN, Ondaatje

By Stan Persky | April 29, 2015

The writers’ organization , PEN, is giving an award to Charlie Hebdo magazine. Six prominent writers are protesting. What’s at stake?

By Stan Persky | April 9, 2014

Stan Persky checks the time.

By Stan Persky | March 17, 2014

This year, Margaret Wente thinks professors aren’t working enough. The underworked Stan Persky checks it out.

By Brian Fawcett | December 31, 2013

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.

By Stan Persky | December 21, 2013

Stan Persky presses the TV power button to discover some dead ducks.

By Daniel Gawthrop | July 31, 2013

Dan Gawthrop is keeping an eye on Pope Francis.

By Stan Persky | June 6, 2013

Feminist theorist Judith Butler delivers a post-gay commencement address in Montreal.

By Norbert Ruebsaat | April 16, 2013

In Norbert Ruebsaat’s Media Studies column, a teacher and student discuss “God.”

By Norbert Ruebsaat | April 11, 2013

What are those students doing, under the table, down in their laps? Norbert Ruebsaat investigates.

By Stan Persky | March 4, 2013

Tom Flanagan, remember him? Probably not, if the news and spin cycle has passed you by.