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Author Archives: Linda McQuaig

Journalist and best-selling author Linda McQuaig has developed a reputation for challenging the establishment.

As a reporter for The Globe and Mail, she won a National Newspaper Award in 1989 for a series of articles which sparked a public inquiry into the activities of Ontario political lobbyist Patti Starr, and eventually led to Starr’s imprisonment.

As a Senior Writer for Maclean’s magazine, McQuaig (along with business writer Ian Austen) probed the early business dealings of Conrad Black, uncovering how Black used political connections to avoid prosecution. An irate Black suggested on CBC radio that McQuaig should be horsewhipped.

In 1991, she was awarded an Atkinson Fellowship for Journalism in Public Policy to study the social welfare systems in Europe and North America.

McQuaig has been a rare voice in the mainstream media challenging the prevailing economic and political dogma — as a columnist in the financial pages of the National Post in the late 1990s, and since 2002, as an op-ed columnist in the Toronto Star.

She has also taken on the status quo in a series of controversial books — including seven national best-sellers — such as Shooting the Hippo (short-listed for the Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction), The Cult of Impotence and It’s the Crude, Dude: War, Big Oil and the Fight for the Planet. Her most recent book is The Sport & Prey of Capitalists: How the Rich Are Stealing Canada’s Public Wealth.

Palestinians inspect the damage following an Israeli airstrike on the El-Remal area in Gaza City on October 9, 2023.
Posted inWorld Politics
CA

The heartbreaking narrative of Palestinian history

by Linda McQuaig April 9, 2024April 11, 2024
A photo of Brian Mulroney with his wife Mila. Mulroney was Prime Minister of Canada during the Charlottetown referendum.
Posted inCanadian Politics
CA

Brian Mulroney’s legacy is built on corporate profits made at the expense of workers

by Linda McQuaig March 22, 2024March 22, 2024
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre speaking in the House of Commons.
Posted inCanadian Politics

Pierre Poilievre bows to Donald Trump

by Linda McQuaig February 22, 2024February 22, 2024
A photo of Ontario Premier Doug Ford in a hospital setting, as the province prepares to expand for-profit clinics.
Posted inCanadian Politics
ON

Ford’s new infrastructure bank will likely exacerbate problems in long-term care

by Linda McQuaig February 8, 2024
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Posted inWorld Politics
CA

Canada could help Palestinians achieve statehood

by Linda McQuaig January 25, 2024January 25, 2024
Oil pumps near Falher Alberta.
Posted inEnvironment
CA

Ottawa supports Big Oil over the climate

by Linda McQuaig January 12, 2024January 12, 2024
A vial of a mRNA vaccine.
Posted inHealth
CA

Canada’s mRNA contribution helped Big Pharma, but left out global poor

by Linda McQuaig December 14, 2023
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Posted inHealth
CA

Big Pharma expecting big win from Trudeau

by Linda McQuaig November 16, 2023
Canada's Ambassador to the UN, Bob Rae.
Posted inCanadian Politics
CA

Canada fails to add its voice to worldwide plea for humanity in Gaza

by Linda McQuaig November 2, 2023
A destroyed residential apartment complex in Gaza after an Israeli air strike.
Posted inHuman Rights
CA

Canada must call for an end to Israel’s use of collective punishment

by Linda McQuaig October 19, 2023
A photo of the Leader of the Opposition Pierre Poilievre in the House of Commons during Question Period on September 21, 2022.
Posted inLabour
CA

Poilievre says he supports workers, but not when they’re on the picket line

by Linda McQuaig September 22, 2023
Social media apps on a phone.
Posted inEconomy
CA

Canada needs a digital infrastructure that isn’t beholden to private interests

by Linda McQuaig September 8, 2023September 13, 2023

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