Heather Mallick
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Heather Mallick (born 1959) is a left-wing Toronto-based columnist and author who, until December, 2005, wrote for the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail. She now writes a bi-weekly column for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's website http://www.cbc.ca/, as well as a monthly column for Chatelaine magazine.
Raised in the northern Ontario town of Kapuskasing where her father was a medical doctor, Mallick attended the University of Toronto where she received a Master of Arts degree in English Literature. She also has undergraduate degrees in English Literature from U of T and in journalism from Ryerson University.
She was employed, after graduation, at the Canadian financial daily newspaper Financial Post where she first worked as a copy editor and later became a news editor.
She first came to attention as a columnist and writer for the Sunday edition of the Toronto Sun during the 1990s. Mallick later wrote for The Globe and Mail where her politically left-of-centre opinion column was a regular part of the paper's Saturday edition. She also wrote major and minor pieces for the newspaper on lifestyle and other issues. Stylistically, Mallick has been compared to writers such as the American commentators Maureen Dowd and Molly Ivins and the British commentator Julie Burchill. Mallick's first book, Pearls in Vinegar, was published in September, 2004 in Canada. It is a collection of her short essays. Mallick is married to Stephen Petherbridge, a senior Canadian journalist. She is writing a new collection of essays for Knopf Canada to be published in April, 2007 titled Cake or Death: The Excruciating Choices of Everyday Life.[1]
