Elizabeth Nickson

Elizabeth Nickson is a freelance Canadian journalist. She was a prominent columnist for the National Post newspaper and its CanWest Global affiliates, until being dropped in November 2004 for plagiarism.

Nickson is particularly known for her biting editorials of a right-wing bent, which have often fiercely attacked politicians and public figures associated in some way with the political left.

Her column was discontinued by CanWest Global after it was discovered that a 2002 column titled "Beneath the glamour, you find film scum", detailing the supposed "bad behaviour" of "fully paid up and noisy liberals" such as Kim Basinger, Sylvester Stallone, and Mike Myers, contained five sentences that should have been attributed to a 2001 article by Jonah Goldberg of the National Review.

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"The original voice is irreplaceable, and unmistakable, and should never be overrun in desperation. You deserve to get caught, because what you are selling is that perfect distillation of you up against raw material, and that drags us out of the cave, our narrow little tribes, into the light." -- "Plagiarism is Stealing", March 15, 2002