Jody Wilson-Raybould fallout detonates Real Change™ brand
Anne Kingston: The allegation involving Jody Wilson-Raybould has effectively kneed the Liberal government where it hurts the most—squarely in its Real Change™ optics.
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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.
Melissa McCarthy should win an Oscar for all of the reasons she won’t
Anne Kingston: McCarthy plays a figure we don’t often see onscreen—a single, clever woman on the margins who isn’t a mother. She’s also deeply, inescapably human.
If Gillette wants to fix gender inequity, it should start with its razors
Anne Kingston: Actual change would mean an end to the absurd gender-ification and price discrimination perpetuated in the marketing of shaving products.
The political terms ’right’ and ’left’ are simplistic, damaging, and need to be retired
Anne Kingston: The binary labels have lost their way with blurred definitions, centrism and crumbling ideology
Elizabeth Warren, haunted by ghosts of sexism past
Anne Kingston: Already, media is recycling the same gender bias seen in the 2016 U.S. election campaign — complete with Hillary Clinton
Barry and Honey Sherman: Duelling investigations, high drama and still no answers
Anne Kingston: Shrouding of information is now the norm in a case many reflexively say will never be solved
Elizabeth May is getting married. Let the bluebirds sing!
Anne Kingston: Historically and mercifully, Canadians have not looked to politicians as romantic role models, nor cared particularly about exposing their relationships. But this one might be different.
An explosive gender revolution is under way. So why isn’t it changing anything?
Fuelled by #MeToo and rage, women with strong voices are demanding cultural change like never before. Why has progress stalled?
Brett Kavanaugh’s craven use of women and girls as props
Anne Kingston: Women — mothers, daughters, classmates and friends — have been summoned as virtue shields in a chilling exploitation
Inside the first year of #MeToo
So far, the movement has toppled celebrities, shaken institutions and challenged the way society views sexual assault. And it’s only just begun.