Leah McLaren
The Walrus
Mississauga, ON, Canada
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Past articles by Leah:
Is Elizabeth Denham the Only Person Powerful Enough to Take on Facebook?
How a privacy regulator from British Columbia forced Silicon Valley to change the way it uses your personal data → Read More
What Running Away Taught Me About Finding My Way Home ·
At eight, I wanted to escape my Ontario town. Decades later, my failed adventure still has a lot to teach me → Read More
Leah McLaren: Today's kids still feel the pressure of gender expectations
As a mother of boys, I take a particular interest in gender expectations and the subtle ways in which we place them on our children → Read More
Leah McLaren: Women, beware the post-truth world of woo woo
Woo woo is short-hand for anything slightly silly, trendy and/or new agey that exists for the primary purpose of making people feel better about our bodies and minds → Read More
Mommy nearest: Why I deleted these matchmaking apps
Peanut and Mush are two new matchmaking apps out of London. Both are pitched as “Tinder for Mums,” and our columnist decided to try them both → Read More
Fidget spinners: The latest craze that’s almost over before it began
Fidget spinners in most big cities today are like rats: You might not notice them, but chances are you are never more than three feet from one at any given time → Read More
Leah McLaren: How not to hate a working mom’s lot in life
Domestic dissonance on who does the chores makes great grist for books. Sadly, the intended audience – men – isn’t reading it → Read More
Leah McLaren: How not to hate a working mom’s lot in life
Domestic dissonance on who does the chores makes great grist for books. Sadly, the intended audience – men – isn’t reading it → Read More
Unmarried baby boomers are living in sin, happily
According to U.S. and Canadian data, a growing number of older people are opting to live together instead of getting married. → Read More
On Mother’s Day, stepmoms navigate tricky emotional territory
Many blended families are left wondering: What, if anything, do stepmothers actually deserve on Mother’s Day? → Read More
Social-media giants can afford to police their platforms — and so they should
The Internet belongs to humans, so we must pressure providers to better police its content and keep it safe → Read More
Leah McLaren: As malls die, so too does a way of life
It wasn’t so long ago that parents frowned on kids hanging out at the shopping centre. In hindsight, it now seems positively quaint → Read More
Leah McLaren: Death might seem frightening, but so does an empty eternal life
If the pursuit to overcome death seems an unsettling prospect, the kind of people driving this quest are even more so → Read More
Leah McLaren: Going grey (by choice) — it’s what all the kids are doing
Rather than simply waiting for time to catch up with you, why not meet silver halfway? → Read More
Leah McLaren: Going grey (by choice) — it’s what all the kids are doing
Rather than simply waiting for time to catch up with you, why not meet silver halfway? → Read More
Leah McLaren: Feminism rightly reframing women’s issues as human issues
HeForShe campaign has helped to usher in a new and more inclusive kind of feminism → Read More
Leah McLaren: News that's neither true or fake ... until you click
Powerful interests can, and likely do, avail themselves of tools to manipulate cognitive bias on a mass scale through social media → Read More
Leah McLaren: Donald Trump isn't just a crackpot. He is reframing the American political debate
Trump’s verbal dysentery, though universally condemned, has successfully reframed the American political debate, bringing it to an odious low → Read More
Leah McLaren: Are nudie pics the new first base?
A man at a dinner party showed me a picture of the vagina of a woman he’s dating. I wanted the room to swallow me whole → Read More
Ikea Foundation building easy-to-assemble refugee shelters
The Ikea Foundation has come up with a Swedish-designed refugee shelter that is changing the lives of hundreds of thousands of displaced persons → Read More