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Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI They came from around the country, drawn to the U.S. capital for a celebration that Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan called 'a day of atonement and [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI It is, oddly, the great leveller - a garment equally suited to Cary Grant (above) and a gangly teenager on his way to the prom. Properly fitted [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Renzetti; Special to The Globe and Mail My first addictive taste of seeing my name in a newspaper occurred early, when my siblings and I visited our grandparents [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Renzetti; Special to The Globe and Mail As I pick my way over the rocks on the shore, my eyes fall from the Pacific horizon, where they've been [...]

Byline: TAVIA GRANT, ELIZABETH RENZETTI, MOLLY HAYES Intimate partner violence has been called the shadow pandemic, one that intensified as COVID lockdowns limited women's ability to leave abusive partners, while [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI; Special to The Globe and Mail When I heard the distressing news that Hilary Mantel had died, I went back and listened to an interview I'd done [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI; Staff To understand just how much the Queen loved horse racing, look no further than her eldest son's second wedding. A rocky path had already preceded Prince [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Renzetti; Staff I had one pressing question about meeting the Queen: What happens if you don't curtsy? Fortunately, as I stood in a long receiving line at Buckingham [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI; Staff Way back in 2017, when I marched in Washington alongside hundreds of thousands of angry people in the inaugural Women's March, there was one particular message [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI; Staff There are always many questions on my mind as I approach the Tim Hortons drive-through: Can I actually find the end of the line, or will [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI; Staff Almost 10 years ago, 20 children were murdered alongside six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Those kids would have been teenagers now, [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI; Staff When my kids were little they loved a book called Everyone Poops, which was second in their hearts only to another literary masterpiece called My Big [...]

Byline: TAVIA GRANT, MOLLY HAYES, ELIZABETH RENZETTI Sixteen months after the federal and provincial governments issued a joint declaration that they would work toward creating 'a Canada free of gender-based [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI; Staff While I was working on a magazine story in Manila in 2000, I travelled to the shoe museum housing former Filipino first lady Imelda Marcos's famous [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI; Staff If you're surprised by the leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion that seems to indicate that Roe v. Wade is set to be overturned, then you [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI; Staff I can't look away from the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard defamation trial. Not literally, of course: I could look away if I chose. But I'm [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI; Staff I've always taken comfort in the fact that there's a sport out there for non-sports fans. You know, the people who were picked last for volleyball [...]

Byline: TAVIA GRANT, MOLLY HAYES, ELIZABETH RENZETTI In Quebec, where 17 women and two children were killed by men in intimate-partner violence in 2021, and amid a surge in hotline [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI; Staff I was watching the BBC World News coverage of the invasion of Ukraine when the anchor prefaced a report with a warning that it contained disturbing [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI; Staff Not all heroes in the Ukrainian resistance of Russia's invasion are fighting in the streets. At least one of them could be found performing his patriotic [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI; Staff When Sofia Lazzaro met Carlo Ponti, she was a 16-year-old beauty-pageant contestant and he was a 38-year-old movie producer. Although he was considerably shorter and much [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI; Staff 'You don't want to make me mad,' Bonnie Robichaud says, with a rolling laugh, over the phone from her seniors' residence in Ottawa. This is true, [...]

Byline: MOLLY HAYES, ELIZABETH RENZETTI, TAVIA GRANT Jacqueline Suchite Rivas thought she knew what abuse looked like. When her ex-husband hit her, that was abuse. Early in their relationship, when, [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI; Staff In January, five of the world's nuclear-armed states - China, Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom and France - released a rare joint statement affirming [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI; Staff The horns are silenced in Ottawa, at least for the time being. The vehicles that blocked downtown streets, and the drivers who leaned on their horns [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI; Staff Recently I began to notice that all sorts of people on social media were recommending Carl Sagan's 1995 book The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Renzetti; Staff Elizabeth Renzetti is a Globe and Mail columnist. Her latest book is Shrewed: A Wry and Closely Observed Look at the Lives of Women and Girls. [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI, Staff Lead You may have seen a recent picture of NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh in a classic newparent pose, holding his infant daughter while also trying to [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI, Staff Lead Some of you may remember a toy called Buckaroo, in which a mule was gingerly laden with all manner of mining gear until the burden [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI, Staff Lead In the very heart of downtown Toronto on Boxing Day, two cars collided and one of them flipped onto the sidewalk, sending seven people and [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI, Staff Lead The heels of my walking boots were worn away, and it was hard not to see this as a metaphor. Everything has been ground down [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI, Staff Lead He was the least likely political success story: A highschool dropout with reading difficulties whose greatest natural talents were selling refrigerators and placing his foot [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI, Staff Lead Getting a group of rock stars together is like herding cats, even when they're recording a charity single. When the cream of British pop gathered [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI, Staff Lead Two stories, from opposite ends of the world, expose a painful truth about the power dynamic at the heart of sexual abuse: Power does not [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI, Staff Lead Until very recently, Britney Spears said that she couldn't spend her own money to buy candles. She couldn't paint her house the colours she wanted, [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI, Staff Lead If you saw someone holding out their hand, with the thumb tucked into the palm and fingers folded over the thumb, would you know what [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI, Staff Lead When I was a kid, there was a snippet of song you'd hear in the playground: 'Work your fingers to the bone, what do you [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI, Staff Lead It was a stealthy operation. On this day in 1995, Diana, Princess of Wales, dismissed her staff at Kensington Palace for the day and sneaked [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI, Staff Lead Western feminism has long had a problem with inclusivity. In its first wave, some leaders of the movement thought that eugenics were a good idea. [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI, Staff Lead I'm not sure my heart can take many more scares, and Halloween is still two weeks away. Perhaps it's the fact that every day feels [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI, Staff Lead On the 10th anniversary of Princess Diana's death, I wandered down to London's Hyde Park to talk to people at a memorial fountain that bore [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI, Staff Lead Did your scrolling finger itch unbearably when Facebook and Instagram went down on Monday? Did you feel a twitch, a pang, a sense of unease [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI, Staff Lead Before she became an international superstar, a member of the French Resistance and a hero of the civil rights movement, Josephine Baker arrived on stage [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI, Staff Lead The federal election has wound down, but the People's Party of Canada continues to leak toxins like an old battery. And those corrosive aftereffects are [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI, Staff Lead As I write this, Gabby Petito's video 'Beginning our van life journey' has been viewed almost five million times on YouTube. In it, the 22-year-old [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Renzetti, Staff Lead Elizabeth Renzetti is a Globe and Mail columnist. Her latest book is Shrewed: A Wry and Closely Observed Look at the Lives of Women and [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI, Staff Lead When Natasha Fritz became a carpenter 15 years ago, she found that her colleagues on job sites often wouldn't refer to her by name, but [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI, Staff Lead What does it take to enable a sexual predator? It takes a village, as it turns out. If the predator is a wealthy and well-connected [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI, Staff Lead Anyone who uses Canada's public parks will be familiar with the sight of extended families sprawled under the trees, grilling and chilling. Sometimes they're playing [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI, Staff Lead The Canadian Armed Forces offers excellent career prospects for women, according to the Canadian Armed Forces. Its recruiting page promises women a life of adventure, [...]