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Heather Mallick
Canadian author
and journalist

Doris Lessing’s
2007 Nobel Speech 

In Defence of Books
I am standing in a doorway looking through clouds of blowing dust to where I am told there is still uncut forest. Yesterday I drove through miles of stumps, and charred remains of fires where, in 1956, there was the most wonderful forest I have ever seen, all now destroyed. People have to eat. They have to get fuel for fires.
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2008-07-31 Dim view of Beijing Games
2008-07-24 Internet alert: John McCain does not compute
2008-07-17 The Mosley trial: being whipped for history
2008-07-10 It's a lonely business, caring about beauty
2008-07-01 The debate is over: Time to honour Henry Morgentaler
2008-06-26 Canada date
2008-06-19 Who needs to survive a Japanese game show?
2008-06-12 Garden dreams
2008-06-08 Whither the factory worker?
2008-06-01 Bosom buddies
2008-05-25 Ignoring the lessons of history
2008-05-18 Avoiding the Sex and the City deluge
2008-05-11 Dungeon case leads to gender rethink in Austria
2008-05-04 Horrifying Fritzl case shouldn't trigger Austro-phobia
2008-04-27 Cheap and convenient come at a cost
2008-04-20 Dump the plastic, save the sea
2008-04-13 Low bridge! Everybody down!
2008-04-06 Political infighting and squabbles a liberal way of life
2008-03-30 When advice is the worst advice
2008-03-23 Nouveau deadly sins
2008-03-16 Facebook group teaches students how to fail
2008-03-09 The craze for notoriety
2008-03-02 Stereotypes prevail, change still distant
2008-02-24 The most depressing book since Bambi
2008-02-17 Religionists
2008-02-10 A house is a home, not an investment
2008-02-03 The decline and fall of public courage
2008-01-27 Privacy and pregnancy
2008-01-20 Identifying justice in a world of victims
2008-01-13 Balancing cheap cars, pricey gas and the environment
2008-01-06 No appetite for the food fetish
2007-12-30 2007 look back
2007-12-23 Taking better, smarter, care of children
2007-12-13 Every family has a Brian Mulroney
2007-12-09 Robert Latimer versus 'the undeveloped heart'
2007-11-29 Hockey wives and abortion
2007-11-25 Crime bills vs. bills for crimes
2007-11-18 Show and Tell time for Canada
2007-11-11 Memoirs of Beijing
2007-11-04 Dollar daze
2007-10-25 Media trivia quests lose sight of real news
2007-10-19 Nazi vacation photos an eerie echo
2007-10-15 Nobel Calling
2007-10-08 Big, rich and popular
2007-10-01 Word games
2007-09-24 Don't Taser me, I'm a writer
2007-09-17 Hats off: lifting the veil on voting legislation
2007-09-10 Gay in Idaho?
2007-09-03 'Mass fatality events present enormous challenges'
2007-08-24 Pregnant, poor and raped in Africa: debate over options
 
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