Heather Mallick

Where this writer stands

Only opinion columns and editorials are scored. Each piece is read twice by a language model, which records the author's own stance on a policy topic only where the piece argues one, with a quote that must appear in the piece. An author's position on a topic is the average of their pieces, weighted by the model's confidence. News reporting is listed but never scored.

Recent work

• Heather Mallick: I’m saying farewell — and leaving you with this lesson about care and power from a dead snail in a bottle of ginger beerOpinion · Toronto Star · Oct 10, 2025
• Heather Mallick: Here’s a list of people to whom I owe a debt of gratitudeOpinion · Toronto Star · Oct 8, 2025
• Heather Mallick: We are sitting ducks for AI and its avalanche of ultraprocessed data. Like online haters before it, AI will show no mercyOpinion · Toronto Star · Oct 1, 2025
• Heather Mallick: Why we keep losing stellar women politicians like Catherine McKennaOpinion · Toronto Star · Sep 26, 2025
• Heather Mallick: I long for the days when making fun of silly science was a beautiful thingOpinion · Toronto Star · Sep 24, 2025
• Heather Mallick: There are many problems with draping a city with glass buildings including last week’s daycare horrorOpinion · Toronto Star · Sep 19, 2025
• Heather Mallick: If dirt is ‘matter out of place’ the city of Toronto is full of it — and not just because of our woeful trash binsOpinion · Toronto Star · Sep 17, 2025
• Heather Mallick: Fear of vaccines is a social contagion. How did that happen?Opinion · Toronto Star · Sep 12, 2025
• Heather Mallick: We have already entered a dystopian eraOpinion · Toronto Star · Sep 10, 2025
• Heather Mallick: A tough but practical reading list for modern timesOpinion · Toronto Star · Aug 22, 2025
• Heather Mallick: Fanjoy and Mamdani, two politicians who radiate charmOpinion · Toronto Star · Aug 15, 2025
• Heather Mallick: A memoir full of falsehoods sold millions of copies.The truest thing about it may be how it revealed our yearningsOpinion · Toronto Star · Aug 13, 2025
• Heather Mallick: I am childish, like a 12-year-old boy, so I snickered at the new POO crew on TTCOpinion · Toronto Star · Aug 8, 2025
• Heather Mallick: Why would female lawyers represent men in sexual crimes?Opinion · Toronto Star · Jul 25, 2025
• Heather Mallick: Was Friends star Matthew Perry a victim of his own wealth?Opinion · Toronto Star · Jul 23, 2025
• Heather Mallick: Matthew Perry, like many rich people, died as a result of their wealth. Are they victims?Opinion · Toronto Star · Jul 22, 2025
• Heather Mallick: Canada’s most generous literary prize needs a wealthy sponsor to survive. It comes with naming rightsOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 18, 2025
• Heather Mallick: Texans don’t like taxes. They prefer to endure disaster and then file lawsuitsOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 16, 2025
• Heather Mallick: Convicted killer Bryan Kohberger studied murder and how to get away with it. He was a lousy studentOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 11, 2025
• Heather Mallick: Despite being in the U.S. illegally, Canadian Cynthia Olivera supported Trump. Now she’s awaiting deportation in an El Paso prison campOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 9, 2025
• Discover the “Heart On” exhibit: Joyce Wieland's love letter to CanadaOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 3, 2025
• Heather Mallick: The U.S. is a nation with violence in its bloodstream and mocking the freshly murdered is now acceptableOpinion · Toronto Star · Jun 20, 2025
• Heather Mallick: Now that everyone’s in turmoil, all decisions seem to be bad from cancelling subscriptions to vacuuming hornetsOpinion · Toronto Star · Jun 18, 2025
• Heather Mallick: How Many Parking Spots Does a Man Need? And other Tolstoyesque truths about transit on Bathurst StreetOpinion · Toronto Star · Jun 13, 2025
• Heather Mallick: If the smoke in the air in Toronto feels apocalyptic, that’s because it isOpinion · Toronto Star · Jun 11, 2025
• Heather Mallick: Like women, men are now being told how to be and the advice is not goodOpinion · Toronto Star · Jun 6, 2025
• Heather Mallick: This is what happens when you ask an AI slop factory to write like meOpinion · Toronto Star · Jun 4, 2025
• Heather Mallick: Wayne Gretzky, hockey and our stomach for Trump-adjacencyOpinion · Toronto Star · Mar 2, 2025
• Heather Mallick: The magic of the snow is gone. Now we’re left with unplowed streets, dog-yellowed piles and road salt in our hairOpinion · Toronto Star · Feb 26, 2025
• Heather Mallick: Trump is threatening invasion of our country. Should you panic? Yes of course. But it won’t helpOpinion · Toronto Star · Feb 21, 2025
• Heather Mallick: This is our country. I took a late-night walk in the snow to remember just how lucky we areOpinion · Toronto Star · Feb 14, 2025
• Heather Mallick: Here’s the first thing you should ditch in this Trump eraOpinion · Toronto Star · Feb 12, 2025
• Heather Mallick: Speak up and fight back, Canada! It’s the patriotic thing to doOpinion · Toronto Star · Feb 7, 2025
• Heather Mallick: It’s wartime. Do without. Shop locallyOpinion · Toronto Star · Feb 5, 2025
• Heather Mallick: When passion trumps reason, it’s fear that really rulesOpinion · Toronto Star · Jan 31, 2025
• Heather Mallick: I am shocked and in shock. How are other Canadians reacting as Trump and his MAGA followers detach from sanity?Opinion · Toronto Star · Jan 29, 2025
• Heather Mallick: A bishop preached that Trump could be like God. Trump responded with blank disinterestOpinion · Toronto Star · Jan 24, 2025
• Heather Mallick: We’re in crisis now. We need a normal prime minister — and I know just the personOpinion · Toronto Star · Jan 22, 2025
• Heather Mallick: We’re in crisis now. We need a normal prime minister — and I know just the personOpinion · Toronto Star · Jan 21, 2025
• Heather Mallick: As Trump plants landmines, now’s the time for Canadians to pull togetherOpinion · Toronto Star · Jan 16, 2025
• Heather Mallick: As my city chores increase, I tire. Bring on the property tax increaseOpinion · Toronto Star · Jan 15, 2025
• Heather Mallick: Donald Trump has a new best friend; Justin Trudeau doesn’t have any friends leftOpinion · Toronto Star · Jan 3, 2025
• Heather Mallick: Only in Alberta can politicians score points with the wackadoodle claim that we need fewer cameras to keep our roads safeOpinion · Toronto Star · Dec 13, 2024
• Heather Mallick: My short list of the best people of 2024Opinion · Toronto Star · Dec 11, 2024
• Heather Mallick: Five more books that soothed in a fretful 2024Opinion · Toronto Star · Dec 6, 2024
• Heather Mallick: It’s been a fretful year. Here are five of my best reads of 2024Opinion · Toronto Star · Dec 4, 2024
• Heather Mallick: Taylor Swift is loved by several generations of fans. This makes some men very angryOpinion · Toronto Star · Nov 15, 2024
• Heather Mallick: What lies ahead if Kamala Harris wins? Joy, violence, baggage, rage — everythingOpinion · Toronto Star · Nov 2, 2024
• Heather Mallick: What lies ahead if Kamala Harris wins? Joy, violence, baggage, rage - everythingOpinion · Toronto Star · Nov 1, 2024
• Heather Mallick: In daily life and not just garden pots, many words are beyond the paleOpinion · Toronto Star · Nov 1, 2024
• Heather Mallick: What the ‘Monsters of Avignon’ teach us about predators and menOpinion · Toronto Star · Oct 25, 2024
• Heather Mallick: We’re going to keep losing Toronto’s local treasures if we don’t make space for one anotherOpinion · Toronto Star · Oct 23, 2024
• Heather Mallick: Toronto will keep losing treasures like my favourite magazine shop in the Annex if we don’t figure out how to make space for one anotherOpinion · Toronto Star · Oct 22, 2024
• Heather Mallick: Four ways to mock Doug Ford for trying to buy our fleeting loveOpinion · Toronto Star · Oct 21, 2024
• Heather Mallick: Long COVID took over my body like Hurricane Milton ravaged FloridaOpinion · Toronto Star · Oct 18, 2024
• Heather Mallick: Sandbags? Protein snacks? Here’s my battle-ready plan for summer in the cityOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 29, 2024
• Sandbags? Protein snacks? Here's my battle-ready plan for summer in the cityOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 28, 2024
• Heather Mallick: We are losing the prettiest places in Canada. And still, we will not changeOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 26, 2024
• We are losing the prettiest places in Canada. And still, we will not changeOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 25, 2024
• Heather Mallick: Here come the attacks on Kamala Harris. Good thing she knows how to reactOpinion · Toronto Star · Jul 24, 2024