If only hugs were votes
Against the backdrop of widespread climate concern, this federal election was supposed to be the Greens’ breakout. What happened?
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Anne Kingston
Senior Writer and Columnist Anne Kingston covers contemporary culture—everything from medical politics to the politics of food. She is the author of ’The Meaning of Wife: A Provocative Look at Women and Marriage in the 21st Century’ and ’The Edible Man: Dave Nichol, President’s Choice and the Making of Popular Taste.’ Find her at anne.kingston@macleans.rogers.com.
Elizabeth May: ’We will not allow the Parliament of Canada to let down our children’
Anne Kingston: The Green Party leader told her election night crowd that she will hold a minority government’s feet to the fire.
The first crop of #MeToo books reflect the movement’s complexity
The meme unleashed discussion of gendered inequities, including the continuing wage gap and the nature of consent
Leaders debate ’environment’ segment reveals the adults in the room
Anne Kingston: Annexing discussion of the environment in a category is particularly egregious at a moment many voters say the climate crisis is high on their list of concerns.
Elizabeth May, fighting a war on many fronts
Anne Kingston: The abortion issue is sucking oxygen from the Greens campaign at a time when millions are marching in the streets to protest government inaction on the climate crisis
How millennials could power Elizabeth May’s Greens
Youth voter turnout spiked in 2015. Was that an anomaly, or the start of a meaningful trend? If millennials go to the polls en masse, that could be good news for the Greens
We are the dead
A months’-long Maclean’s investigation into intimate-partner violence reveals how systems, politicians and people have failed women and girls
Let’s retire the ’abortion debate’ in Election 43
Anne Kingston: Focus on a mythical debate has a serious consequence: it ignores the larger sweep of social conservative policies promoted by anti-abortion groups
What Elizabeth May had to do at the debate was less than she did
Anne Kingston: After faux-shaking Justin Trudeau’s hand, May needed to establish that a Green vote was a credible alternative
Bianca Andreescu showed her work, then owned it. No ’sorry’ about it.
Anne Kingston: We’re so humble and nice it can hurt sometimes, or so we smugly tell ourselves. Case in point: The reaction to Andreescu’s massive U.S. Open win.