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Leah McLaren

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Leah McLaren (born November 7, 1975) is a Canadian author and newspaper columnist.

Her writing has been published in several newspapers including The Times, The Evening Standard, and The Sunday Telegraph, [citation needed] as well as in the weekly magazine The Spectator, for which she wrote a controversial and widely read cover story on the romantic failure of the modern English male.[1]

In 2008, the CBC shot Abroad, a television movie of the week, written and produced by McLaren and based on her experiences as a young Canadian newspaper reporter living and dating in London. It aired once, on March 14, 2010 and was being developed as a series; until CBC Television cancelled it before any other episodes were made.[2]

McLaren describes herself as a feminist.[3] She had a regular Saturday column in the Life section of The Globe and Mail, in which she talked about living as a single woman in modern-day Toronto. She has written a column in the Arts section. She also writes "The Leah Files", a monthly column in Flare, a fashion magazine. She has written for other publications including Toronto Life, McGill Daily, enRoute, and others. [citation needed]

Leah McLaren is currently Maclean's Magazine's London correspondent.[4]

References

  1. ^ Leah McClaren (27 July 2002). "The tragic ineptitude of the English male". spectator.co.uk. The Spectator. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  2. ^ "Leah McLaren turns life in London into TV show". www.cp24.com. CP24. 17 February 2010. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  3. ^ McLaren, Leah (July 19, 2014). "The importance of being courteous: Why parents need to focus on their kids' manners". Globe and Mail. Retrieved May 12, 2015.
  4. ^ http://www.macleans.ca/author/leahmclaren/