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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 [...]

Nothing will change for women until those who gain most from the system ask for changes, Elizabeth Renzetti is a journalist and novelist based in Toronto whose latest book isWhat She Said: Conversations About Equality, from which this essay has been adapted. When my kids were [...]

Across The Globe’s 180-year history, female journalists have fought for equality in an industry that was not always quick to give it, Perhaps no one on the editing desk saw the irony. In February, 1976, The Globe and Mail profiled Maureen McTeer, the wife of new Progressive Conservative leader Joe Clark. She [...]

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 [...]