While National Newswatch does not keep an archive of external articles for longer than 6 months, we do keep all articles written by contributors who post directly to our site. Here you will find all of the contributed and linked external articles from Heather Mallick.
The year of 2025 is looking very much like the year of 2024, chaotic, grim, worrisome, airplane-crashy, genocidal, and frankly a bit short of the generous human behaviour I had been expecting for its first week. I’m glad that former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, a good man among less good men, reached 100 but even he didn’t want to add...
It’s Friday, International Women’s Day 2024. Let public joy be confined, possibly under a weighted blanket. We are not doing well. Women let their guard down. We will need to be tougher than ever in this fatal era. It has been decades since women’s rights were withdrawn so precipitously around the world. We expected feminism to expand exponentially. “Now I...
There’s good news and bad news. Google, a huge and immensely powerful American corporation, has agreed to pay a measly $100 million annually to Canadian news sites who depend on Google links for traffic, just as Google depends on us for content. It was always Big Tech’s plan that everyone around the globe would come to depend on Google and...
The online reaction to news that American war criminal Henry Kissinger had finally died at 100 was a kind of mad gaiety. Joy was unconfined. The ponderous headlines on legacy media about a “polarizing statesman” (CBC) leaving a “complicated legacy” (NYT) only revealed how badly they misunderstand and relay common public opinion. “Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop...
I am all aflutter. This week I did my annual Christmas shop at Loblaws to use up points on my PC Financial card. Such is price inflation that the points didn’t fully cover the bill, which is new. But fine. The purchase went about as well as it does at Pearson Airport check-in. A trade unionist by nature, I try...