In Britain, McLaren's writing has been published in newspapers including The Times, The Evening Standard, and The Sunday Telegraph, [citation needed] as well as in the weekly magazine The Spectator, for which she wrote a controversial and widely read cover story on the romantic failure of the modern English male.
[3] She had a regular Saturday column in the Life section of The Globe and Mail, in which she talked about living as a single woman in Toronto.
The piece was ruled a conflict of interest by the Globe's Public Editor Sylvia Stead, although that was too late to stop the $600,000 home from selling above its listing price.
[5][6] McLaren came under fire for a controversial column she wrote for The Globe and Mail on March 22, 2017, where she admits she once attempted to breastfeed the infant child of Conservative leadership candidate Michael Chong without his or his wife's consent, and while she was not lactating.
Five days after its publication Chong confirmed via Twitter that the incident occurred over ten years previously, describing it as "no doubt odd, but of no real consequence".