She proceeds to give us her insights, analysis and critique not only with rhetorical, stylistic and intellectual rigor, but with gusto and passion, a rare commodity in today's bland politically correct journalism.
She continued as media critic until June 2007, when she became the social issues and cultural affairs columnist at the Toronto Star.
[7] On the day before retiring from The Star, during the controversy over allegations that CBC Radio personality Jian Ghomeshi had assaulted half a dozen women, Zerbisias, along with then-Montreal Gazette reporter Sue Montgomery, created the hashtag #BeenRapedNeverReported[8][9] which went viral internationally and was translated into other languages.
While focusing on entertainment, media and cultural issues for the bulk of her career[10] Zerbisias has also taken positions in regards to the Middle East including the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the Iraq War.
[1] In 2009, on Twitter, she took issue with former Justice Minister Irwin Cotler who, as a keynote speaker at a Stand With Us event at Israel's Bar-Ilan University, boasted about his children enlisting in the Israeli military and asked "Which country are you loyal to, sir?
"[11] In the same year, she mocked Bernie Farber, then CEO of the Canadian Jewish Congress, in her blog for wearing a "Nobody knows I'm gay" T-shirt while marching in Toronto's Pride parade in a protest against the inclusion of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid in the march after he had said that political groups do not belong in the Pride parade.
"[14] The Canadian Jewish Congress responded by filing a complaint with the Toronto Star against Zerbisias for allegedly "outing" Farber.
But I think her attempt at irony failed here; the quip – as published without that context – was ambiguous and could be misunderstood",[16] adding "To be fair to Zerbisias, it should be made clear, though, that she did not 'make things up,' as Farber interpreted it.