Who is Linda McQuaig and what does she do?
Linda McQuaig. Linda Joy McQuaig is a Canadian journalist, columnist, non-fiction author and social critic. She is best known for her series of best-selling books that challenge the dominant free-market economic ideology of recent decades.
When did Linda McQuaig leave The Globe and Mail?
In 1984, McQuaig returned to the Globe as a political reporter, where she first came to national prominence in 1989 for uncovering the Patti Starr affair, in which former Ontario Place CEO Patti Starr was found to have illegally used charitable funds to make political donations, and for which McQuaig was awarded a National Newspaper Award .
When did Linda McQuaig write the trouble with billionaires?
In The Trouble with Billionaires (2010), McQuaig and co-author Neil Brooks, a professor of tax policy at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, examined the rise of the billionaire class and its negative impact on society, and argued for a much more progressive tax system.
When did Linda McQuaig and Fred Fedorsen get married?
In the mid-eighties McQuaig and two female friends created The Make-Out Game, a boardgame she has described as “a satire on the different ways men and women approach sex.” In the early nineties she married criminal defence lawyer Fred Fedorsen, with whom she has a daughter, Amy. The marriage ended in 1994.
When did Linda McQuaig write holding the bully’s coat?
It’s the Crude, Dude: Greed, Gas, War and the American Way (2006) is a version of McQuaig’s 2004 book with added information relating to the U.S. In Holding the Bully’s Coat: Canada and the US Empire (2007), McQuaig argues that Canada should stop supporting the US in its role as an imperial power.
When did Linda McQuaig start writing for the National Post?
McQuaig has been a rare voice in the mainstream media challenging the prevailing economic and political dogma — as a columnist in the financial pages of the National Post in the late 1990s, and since 2002, as an op-ed columnist in the Toronto Star.
