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Globe and Mail Public Editor: Does an idiom have a ‘best before’ date?

By Sylvia Stead for the Globe and Mail Our language doesn’t stay still. It adapts to a changing world, gains new terms, drops old ones and changes course when a term or…
Globe and Mail Public Editor: Overuse of term ‘populism’ can be misleading

By Sylvia Stead, Globe and Mail Public Editor Here’s a word that has surged in popularity in the last year. It has been used to describe Donald Trump’s ascendancy, the majority vote…