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Margaret Atwood Is Mad Online About a Condo Building

Tensions in Toronto always run high when it comes to housing, and Atwood was involved in several passionate online exchanges last week over the motives behind her opposition to a project and the precedent she and her neighbors were setting.

The author and several of her wealthy neighbors have taken exception to an 8-story building planned near their homes, writing a number of hyperbolic letters and emails to their local councillor. Julie Jacobson/AP

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By Chris Bateman

September 5, 2017 at 7:17 PM UTC

It's been a big year for Margaret Atwood.

In April, Canada's most famous author debuted a TV adaptation of her 1985 novel, The Handmaid's Tale, to widespread critical acclaim, and the show was just picked up for a second season.