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Linda McQuaig
Linda Joy McQuaig is a Canadian journalist, columnist, non-fiction author and social critic. She is best known for her series of best-selling books that challenge what she describes as Canada's departure from the principles of universal social programs, towards an American-style means-based system. The ''National Post'' newspaper has described McQuaig as "Canada's Michael Moore."
==Early years and personal life==
McQuaig was born in 1951 to a comfortable middle-class Toronto family that she has described as opinionated and interested in politics. Her father Jack, who she has called "politically conservative but with a strong sense of social justice", is founder of the McQuaig Institute of Executive Development and has written a half-dozen books on leadership and personal development. McQuaig's mother Audrey was also trained as a psychologist, but gave up her career to raise McQuaig, her sister Wendy and brothers Peter, Don and John.
From the ages of seven to nine, McQuaig wrote and published the one-page ''DeVere Weekly'', a newspaper named after the street in Toronto on which her family lived. From 1963 to 1970 McQuaig attended Branksome Hall, a Toronto private girls school where she became president of the debating society, and from which she graduated with the Governor General's medal for academic achievement. Later she attended the University of Toronto, where she worked for the student newspaper ''The Varsity'' and served as co-editor in chief with Thomas Walkom.〔
In the 1970s McQuaig and four friends co-owned a house they called The Pit in Toronto's east end, where they hosted frequent house parties and dinners for friends in academia, media and the arts. In 1976 she lived for a year in Paris, where she learned French and wrote a never-published novel, set in Paris, about a relationship between a female journalist and an Arab man. In the mid-eighties McQuaig created ''The Make-Out Game'', a feminist boardgame she has described as "a satire on the different ways men and women approach sex." In the early nineties she married criminal defence lawyer Fred Fedorsen, with whom she has a daughter, Amy. The marriage ended in divorce in 1994.〔
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