The Quill

A constitutional lawyer exposes how free speech is being eroded across professions in Canada — from nurses to teachers to lawyers — and why women are being forced to fight back.

A childhood story of isolation, a grey giant named Nessie, and how one dog's unconditional love became the anchor that held me here.

Behind those who can wave their faces like banners and announce their names with the gusto of a game show host, there are hundreds—no, thousands—of women forced into the daily, death-defying act of tightrope-walking: The greatest show on earth.

It’s not the pumpkin spice or the fake cobwebs that haunt me, but the sight of fall jackets emerging from their closet hibernation, like bears roused by distant screams.

We were somewhere near the Mason-Dixon line, a place I had never heard of but would always remember.