I cook, I clean, I… just grew up?
I’m not quite sure what happened, but I appear to be growing up. No, no, it’s not one of those tearful milestone moments – I don’t have a graduation cap in hand, I haven’t received any prestigious...
View ArticleWhat students are talking about today (Sept. 24 edition)
Texas tuition freeze, a stabbing & mandatory women's studies
View ArticleWente’s university prescription is misguided
Before judging, please consider what professors actually do
View ArticleJob search panic, fat acceptance & birth control scare
What students are talking about today (April 9th)
View ArticleAn announcement: Liveblogging the amazing world of the future
I am in a high-school auditorium in Waterloo, Ontario. Six hundred people are here for a lecture by Nobel laureate William Phillips. So is Margaret Wente of the Globe and Mail and Mike Lazaridis,...
View ArticleMegapundit Extra: How many abortions is too many?
In Thursday’s Globe and Mail (as noted in Thursday’s Megapundit), Margaret Wente argued that the “nearly 30 per cent of pregnancies in Canada [that] end in abortion” is an uncomfortably high figure,...
View ArticleMegapundit Extra: This is our country
UPDATE! Behold: the Stand up for Margaret Wente Facebook page! Behold: the Fire Margaret Wente Facebook page, where a simple, defensible message—basically, that Margaret Wente is a lazy hack—is almost...
View ArticleMegapundit on former Megapundit
Margaret Wente in today’s Globe and Mail: The lesson of the black swan is that the world is governed not by ordinary and predictable events but by extraordinary and unpredictable ones. The asteroid...
View ArticleIs the recession good for the environment? (and why Margaret Wente is wrong)
Could an economic recession actually be good for climate change? Such a thought strikes fear into every moderate green’s heart, because if environmentalism is actually antithetical to the capitalist...
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I’m with the ‘intolerant’ Quebecers
Photograph by Brian Howell The other day, a reader wrote to say that, while en vacances au Québec, he had espied me in a restaurant. With a couple of obvious francophones. And, from the snatches of...
View ArticleStatistical sour grapes
When the U of T Cities Centre announced a couple weeks ago that middle-class neighbourhoods are disappearing in Toronto, the Globe and Mail latched onto the study and squeezed it for all it was worth....
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What is the most effective diet for losing weight?
Kyle May/Flickr This past weekend, Science-ish was disappointed to read Margaret Wente’s column on health evidence, in which she opined: “Today’s health wisdom has a way of becoming tomorrow’s bunk…...
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Boomers, you folks had it easy
The Toronto Star ran a story recently about a 24-year-old “super intern” named Maeghan Smulders, who graduated from Mount Royal University with 29 job offers—all of which she rejected. Smulders...
View ArticleGlobe and Mail, or Cut and Paste?
In January, the Globe and Mail appointed longtime editor and correspondent Sylvia Stead its first “public editor”. What say we pause right there, before we go any further? The job of “public editor” is...
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Margaret Wente, remix artist?
Getty Images The New Yorker‘s Jonah Lehrer, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, and now the Globe and Mail‘s Margaret Wente: three high profile journalists exposed as plagiarists in the past three months. Why now?...
View ArticleThe Wente scandal: a satisfactory resolution?
The Globe and Mail has offered a threefold response today to the critics who have been raising a stir about Carol Wainio’s prosecution brief against Margaret Wente for the crime of plagiarism. Wente...
View ArticleWhere’s the crime in ‘wasting time’ at university?
If you are a university student or a university-bound high school student you probably have the impression, thanks to Canadian media and possibly your parents, that the future is bleak. They would have...
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Thank you, Margaret Wente, for exposing rape culture
Andrew Vaughan/CP This past week, Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente performed a valiant public service by exposing the mechanics of rape culture—the term for systemic attitudes that diminish,...
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