Heather Mallick

Heather Mallick is a Canadian columnist and author who has also worked as a reporter and book review editor for several Toronto newspapers. On September 5, 2008, Mallick slammed Republican vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, in her column titled "A Mighty Wind blows through Republican convention" in which she stated that "Palin has a toned-down version of the porn actress look favored by this decade's woman, the over treated hair, puffy lips and permanently alarmed expression." She also added comments about Palin's family and referred to Palin's husband, Todd, as a "roughneck."¹

Fast Facts

Born: 1959

Raised in northern Ontario

Columnist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's website

Teaches politics and writing at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies

Wrote the book Pearls in Vinegar in 2004

Wrote an essay collection called Cake or Death: The Excruciating Choices of Everyday Life in 2007

Heather Mallick Column Excerpt

"Palin has a toned-down version of the porn actress look favored by this decade's woman, the over treated hair, puffy lips and permanently alarmed expression. Bristol has what is known in Britain as the look of the teen mum, the "pram face." Husband Todd looks like a roughneck; Track, heading off to Iraq, appears terrified. They claim to be family obsessed while being studiously terrible at parenting. What normal father would want Levi "I'm a f***in redneck" Johnson prodding his daughter?"²