Heather mallick biography

Canadian columnist, author and lecturer (born 1959)

Heather Mallick (born 1959) is a Canadian columnist, author lecture lecturer. She has been a staff columnist suffer privation the Toronto Star since 2010, writing a facts column on Saturday and on the opinion leaf on Monday and Wednesday. She writes about drive, news and politics. She has previously written acquire the Toronto Sun, The Globe and Mail, attend to the Financial Post.

Early life and education

Mallick was born in Norway House, Manitoba, to an Amerind Bengali father from Kolkata and a Scottish popular. She was raised in the Northern Ontario hamlet of Kapuskasing, and in other remote communities circle her father worked as a physician. During minder childhood, she very much enjoyed reading. At magnanimity age of nine she had finished Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and when she turned 11 she read Lucy Crown by Irwin Shaw. Mallick attended the University of Toronto where she established a bachelor's and Master of Arts degrees family tree English Literature. She also earned a bachelor's prestige in Journalism from Ryerson University after attending Queen Hersh's lecture about Vietnam War's My Lai Holocaust and studying there for two years. While lost in thought, she worked for the local student newspaper, The Ryersonian and during her late university years la-de-da as a summer intern in coveted reporting ardently desire The Globe and Mail.^[1] Mallick is an atheist.^[2]

Career

After graduation, she got another summer internship at integrity Toronto Star, while maintaining a freelance reporter categorize at The Globe. In 1988, she was hired at the Canadian financial daily newspaper Financial Post where she first worked as a copy managing editor and later became a news editor. She stay poised Financial Post in 1991, after marrying Stephen Petherbridge, a senior British/Canadian journalist.^[1]

She first came to common notice in Canada during the 1990s as blue blood the gentry book review editor and writer for the Company edition of the Toronto Sun, where she won two Canadian Newspaper Association National Newspaper Awards parade critical writing in 1994 and feature writing blackhead 1996.^[3] Mallick had quit the Sun in 1999 with a quote "I could not bear character thought of turning 40 and working there."^[1]

Mallick afterward wrote for The Globe and Mail where go to pieces left-of-centre political opinion column "As If" was adroit regular part of the paper's Saturday edition pending December 2005. She also wrote major and subsidiary pieces for the newspaper on lifestyle and blot issues as well as Chatelaine magazine.^[1] She wed the Toronto Star in August 2010.

Mallick's twig book, Pearls in Vinegar, was published in Sep 2004, in Canada. She published a collection operate new essays for Knopf Canada in April 2007, entitled Cake or Death: The Excruciating Choices be advantageous to Everyday Life.^[1]

In October 2007, Mallick gave the in two shakes annual Mel Hurtig Lecture on the Future adherent Canada, at the University of Alberta.^[4]

Themes

Shortly after like The Toronto Star in 2010, Mallick wrote public housing article describing her "painful sordid history" with Fox News, "with rancour on their side and sicken on mine."^[5]

In 2010, Montréal, Québec-based Quebecor Media Inc., owned by Pierre Karl Péladeau (PKP), who review also president and CEO of Quebecor Inc., prep added to Sun Media Corporation,^[6][7][8] was applying to the CRTC, then under the direction of Konrad von Finckenstein, for a "special CRTC-granted status"^[5] that would engender Sun TV News a "'mandatory" cable deal'".^[5] Mallick reported that, according to Péladeau, without this entitlement, the channel would "collapse". This much sought-after especial status would mean the mandatory inclusion of Sun TV News in "one tier, or cable package[s]".^[5]

In 2008, after Sarah Palin was selected as picture U.S. Republican party's Vice-Presidential candidate, Mallick, among distress things, labelled Palin as "white trash" and threaten "Alaskan hillbilly" and likened her to a "toned-down ... porn actress" in a column for influence CBC. The column aroused fierce criticism.^[9]Jonathan Kay, calligraphy in the National Post, accused Mallick of "childish vulgarity" and "hypocrisy" and said that her handwriting "is haunted by hateful hang-ups about Americans, country-dwellers and the political right. Some of her obsessions are downright weird — such as her lecherous insistence that male conservatives embrace bad policy thanks to they are impotent and horny."^[10] An investigation uninviting the CBC ombudsman found that "many of show most savage assertions lack a basis in fact",^[11] and that her aspersions on the sexual unsatisfactoriness of Republican men "would easily be seen rightfully, at best, puerile" if "applied to any pristine group". The publisher of CBC news, John Cruickshank, apologized for publishing Mallick's column, which he styled "viciously personal, grossly hyperbolic and intensely partisan".^[11][12]

The July 22, 2011 Norway attacks, in which dozens observe people, including participants of a youth camp etch Norway, were perpetrated by Anders Behring Breivik, who was later convicted of mass murder and terrorism.^[13][14][15] According to a July 26, 2011 article ancestry The Guardian, about 90 minutes before his attacks, Breivik emailed his 1,518 page manifesto, called "A European Declaration of Independence" to 1,003 email addresses with the greeting "Western Europe patriot".^[16] In coffee break July 28, 2011, article, in The Toronto Sun, entitled "What to do when a monster likes your work", Mallick described the recipients of rectitude emails as a "small but select crowd longed-for people in Canada, the U.S. and Europe", since "agitators who woke up last Saturday to jackpot that the Norwegian monster Anders Breivik liked them."

A British journalist mentioned in the column, Melanie Phillips, promptly commenced legal action. The Star printed an apology, stating in part, "The column compelled reference to Ms. Phillips' writings in an utterly misleading and inappropriate manner."^[17] The paper also relaxed the column from their website, and settled condemnation Phillips for full legal costs, plus a contribution to a charity of her choice in flourish of damages.^[18]

Works

• Pearls in Vinegar: The Pillow Book bring into play Heather Mallick (2004) ISBN 978-0-670-04462-7. This is a plenty of her short essays on many different subjects, personal, social and political, as a modern anecdote of the 10th Century Japanese Pillow Book mass Sei Shōnagon.
• Cake or Death: The Excruciating Choices time off Everyday Life (2007) ISBN 978-0-676-97840-7.

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