Toula Drimonis
Quebec columnist | Montreal
About Toula Drimonis
Toula Drimonis is a Montreal-based writer, editor, and award-winning columnist. A former News Director with TC Media, her freelance work, which focuses mainly on Quebec politics and women's issues, has appeared in the National Post, the New York Times, Women in the World, Ricochet Media, Ms. Magazine, Buzzfeed Canada, and Mic, among others. She is a women's issues and political panel contributor for City Life, a local Montreal current affairs TV show and was on the advisory board for Use the Right Words, a national media guide on how to report on sexual violence.
Mighty Greta motivates Montreal climate march
Was the “Greta factor” instrumental in getting this many people out? There’s no doubt. But those on the streets sound purposeful and committed to change. They were inspired by Greta, but actively looking for local solutions to a global crisis.
Sounding the alarm on Quebec's secularism law
Feminist analyst Alexa Conradi says some Quebec legislators are operating under false assumptions that women who wear head coverings need saving.
I’m so damn tired of debating abortion rights…
I’m tired of watching strangers and friends alike sharing their deeply personal abortion stories just so they can convince strangers, whose opinions and input should be utterly irrelevant to their day-to-day lives, that they are entitled to their own reproductive decisions about their own bodies and their own futures.
Governments are planning for climate-driven migration – in the worst way possible
The world is preparing for climate-driven migration in the worst way possible, not by attempting to mitigate and tackle the root causes of climate change, but with increased militarization and tougher immigration policies.
Take white supremacist terrorism more seriously, please
White-supremacist terrorism is every bit the ideological twin to ISIS jihadist terrorism. It can radicalize and inspire the same kind of narrow-minded hate, death and destruction – perhaps even more so, because it continues to benefit from the denial of people who refuse to see it as the global threat that it is.
Montreal man ticketed for doing exactly what every other Montrealer has done this winter
Like every other Montrealer, I, too, have found myself zigzagging on and off sidewalks as I navigate snowbanks, icy patches and messy, slushy puddles. And yet I have neither been stopped nor ticketed by a police officer for the so-called offence. If police are now handing out tickets for walking on Montreal roads, we should have all gotten one by now. But we haven’t, have we?
Concordia sexual harassment complainant calls the process ‘Kafkaesque’
“I want to see a transparent process, one that isn’t punitive, where we don’t have to chase people for information. The fact that I only learned that he had been exonerated via an email from my journalist contact… This is systemically discouraging. It feels like gaslighting." - Ibi Kaslik
Proposed sexual assault court in Quebec long overdue
In a powerful display of bipartisan female solidarity, representatives of Quebec’s four major political parties are advocating establishment of a court that could re-establish faith in the legal system for sexual assault victims.
Francophones say Doug Ford needs to learn the lessons of history
Ontario Premier Doug Ford's recent decision to cancel plans for a new French university and slash the French-language commissioner position in the province has outraged Franco-Ontarians, writes Toula Drimonis.
Sex work: time to end the stigma and the condescending narratives
Recognizing that sex workers are capable of agency and independence in their actions is major... Their voices are often silenced, in favour of a condescending, disrespectful narrative that portrays them as either victims or criminals, writes Toula Drimonis