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Nov 22 2023 — Marsha Lederman — Globe and Mail — Pursuant to the standing order of bills delivered monthly to this House, I have the honour to table, in one official language, this fall economic statement for my own family’s household. This Canadian household’s fiscal update reflects the affordability crisis that the individuals who make up this great nation are facing. We are worn out, […]
Nov 11 2023 — Marsha Lederman — Globe and Mail — Last Saturday, I met a man named Faisal Salama at a pro-Palestinian rally in Vancouver. Mr. Salama, 30, had just moved to the city. He is Palestinian – born in Kuwait, raised in Edmonton – and still has family in Gaza, including an aunt and first cousins, now displaced from the north as Israeli bombs […]
Oct 26 2023 — Marsha Lederman — Globe and Mail — On the night of Oct. 8, the day after the Hamas massacre that killed more than 1,400 people in Israel, I was woken in Vancouver by a knock on a door. “This is it,” I thought. “They’ve come for me.” “They” were the Hamas terrorists, the latest version of the shadowy Jew-haters – Nazis, previously […]
Oct 18 2023 — Marsha Lederman — Globe and Mail — Israel’s national anthem is called Hatikvah: “The hope.” It’s hard to feel any hope at this moment, with so many deaths, including from that hospital blast in Gaza; as I write this, it’s still unclear who is responsible. When it was adopted as the anthem, Hatikvah symbolized hope for this refuge rising from the ashes […]
Oct 12 2023 — Marsha Lederman — Globe and Mail — “Someone’s taking photos of your house,” a friend called out to me upstairs, from my living room. No big deal, right? Although this week, it was. Why was a stranger taking pictures of the place where I live? I was immediately anxious. Paranoia? The result of sleep deprivation caused by very terrible world events? Or […]
Oct 5 2023 — Marsha Lederman — Globe and Mail — Before the Manitoba Progressive Conservatives lost the election, they lost the plot. And their soul. When you are campaigning on not searching a landfill site where police believe the remains of murdered women were buried – and what’s more, when you turn that message into an actual billboard – what does that say about your […]
Sep 25 2023 — Marsha Lederman — Globe and Mail — Jews across Canada were preparing for the holiest day on the religious calendar on Sunday, as word was spreading about a major snafu in Ottawa two days earlier. Ahead of a 24-hour fast to atone for sins committed in the previous year and ask to be inscribed into the Book of Life for the year […]
Sep 15 2023 — Marsha Lederman — Globe and Mail — School libraries have finite resources, including space, and will never be able to include every book that was ever published – nor every book that was once offered by that individual library. Collections are weeded not just to make space though – updates are needed when books are beyond repair, but also for textual accuracy […]
Sep 13 2023 — Marsha Lederman — Globe and Mail — “The most important job of any leader is to bring hope,” Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre told an enthusiastic crowd (even if it was somewhat depleted, nearing the end of his marathon speech) at the party’s convention on Friday. But is it really? Unlike many other declarations made in that speech, this particular statement is a […]
Sep 8 2023 — Marsha Lederman — Globe and Mail — For all its faults, social media offered great promise: Democratization of voice and a platform for all, gatekeepers be damned (with exceptions to keep things safe). Here was a way, beyond the letters-to-the-editor page, to scream into the void with results; someone might hear you and engage.
Aug 12 2023 — Marsha Lederman — Globe and Mail — I couldn’t believe what I was seeing: A video promoting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who wants to be the Republican nominee for U.S. president, ended with his face, surrounded and ultimately replaced by a strange, circular spinning symbol. This motif, with its jagged rays emanating from the centre, is known as the Black Sun, or […]
Aug 3 2023 — Marsha Lederman — Globe and Mail — Most people do not get married thinking they’ll become a divorce statistic down the road. But it happens. A lot. And if it does, the unhappy couple – and maybe their children – drown in things to navigate. In addition to the grief and emotional heavy lifting, there are ugly practicalities to work through. Who […]
Jul 29 2023 — Marsha Lederman — Globe and Mail — So many bad things can happen at work. Among the worst is being subjected to racist treatment. Harassment of any sort is up there too. The workplace should be a safe space. The lucky among us think of our jobs as a vocation, and our place of employment as a sort of second home. Another […]
Jul 24 2014 — Marsha Lederman — Globe and Mail — Canadian environmental superstar David Suzuki is teaming up with actual rock stars – and other big name celebrities – for a cross-Canada tour to launch a new environmental campaign. The Blue Dot Tour features a star-studded line-up of musical and non-musical guests, including Neil Young, Feist, and Margaret Atwood.