Report on Dalhousie’s dentistry scandal applies veneers to major cavities
It’s self-congratulatory. The men seem to have learned nothing. Anne Kingston on how Dal’s new report on the DDS 2015 group is a failure
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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.
Name-dropping in the name of fiscal responsibility
Anne Kingston on the many fictional characters in the 2015 federal budget
Have we been milked by the dairy industry?
Milk is unhealthy, unnecessary, bad for the planet—even racist? Welcome to the new food war.
Could Canada cause multiple sclerosis?
The cheeky rebranding of multiple sclerosis in Canada raises the fair question: why are rates so high here?
Book review: Urquhart’s latest literary triumph
Jane Urquhart’s eighth novel is a gorgeously written, virtuosic weaving of time, place and characters connected in profound ways
Rehtaeh Parsons, Dalhousie and the wait for justice in Nova Scotia
The Parsons case is closed and the Dalhousie dentistry scandal is fading—but the disturbing questions they raised have yet to be answered
A lesson from ’Patient Zero of online shaming’
Monica Lewinsky’s (and our) problem isn’t technological, it’s cultural
Beer and wine in Ontario supermarkets a step sideways, not forward
The prospect of big chains being anointed purveyors is a continuation of the corporate hegemony that has traditionally dominated beer and wine sales in the province
Shad is the perfect anti-Jian Ghomeshi. But is that a good thing for Q?
He’s a likeable, functional, multicultural star, but CBC’s choice of Shad as the new host of Q suggests the network hasn’t learned much from its mistakes
In wake of Maclean’s story, Nova Scotia reverses an injustice
After an investigation into Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh, Nova Scotia will now allow historic victims of sexual assault to sue alleged abusers