I Hate Watching the Alberta Flag Become a Symbol of Separatism

Writer Christie Blatchford had two powerful arrows in her quiver: empathy and outrage. There were good guys and bad guys, and God help you if you were picking on the good guys and Blatch knew about it. There was no better example of the immense firepower she wielded with these sometimes-contradictory qualities than 9/11. Blatch, a Governor-General’s-Literary-Award-winning author who worked for every major Toronto daily during her 45-year career, died in February 2020 after falling ill while covering the 2019 election. On Sept. 11, 2001, she was a Toronto-based columnist for the...