An old truth packaged in a new study: fat is good for youTuesday September 12th, 2017
Humans die quickly if utterly deprived of fat. A high-fat, carb-free life produces lean, fit bodies
Healthy eating and weight management are both obsessions in my family. There are no food regimes known to man that have not been followed by one or more of us in our quest for the magic bullet that will keep us trim in perpetuity without catching the Grim Reaper’s eye prematurely.
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Quebec’s niqab ban is progressive. The NDP apparently isn’tTuesday August 29th, 2017
In their Sunday night French-language debate in Montreal, four NDP leadership aspirants gingerly navigated the minefield of Quebec’s Bill 62, nearing enactment, which will ban face coverings in the delivery and reception of publicly-funded services.
As good leftists one and all, Charlie Angus, Guy Caron, Jagmeet Singh and Niki Ashton oppose any such ban in their multicult...
Promoting “nanny dogs” is a threat to public healthTuesday August 15th, 2017
Very young children do not see animals as “other.” It seems natural to them that stories should feature animals who speak and wear clothing. There is no harm in that. Babar, Curious George, Paddington Bear: toddlers don’t actually get up close and personal with elephants, bears and monkeys before they have sorted out the difference between what is imaginary and ...
France finally admits to its history of Jew hatred. What about the present?Tuesday July 25th, 2017
July 16 marked the 75th anniversary of the infamous 1942 mass roundup of French Jews in Paris’s Velodrome d’Hiver (“Vel d’Hiv”), when 13,152 Jews were deported to Nazi death camps. Benjamin Netanyahu’s motorcade arrival at the commemoration ceremony, his limousine sporting gold-fringed Israeli flags, was an electric moment for French Jews, representin...
Misandrist mother sure to damage her vulnerable sonsTuesday July 18th, 2017
Last week, motivated by a sense of duty, I took my nine-year old granddaughter to the film Despicable Me 3, my first exposure to this popular series. It turned out to be no chore at all; I laughed with a child’s abandon throughout.
Except, that is, for one sobering moment, at the hero Gru’s reunion with his long-unseen, toxic mother. She had pushed him into a life of crime (f...
Marin trivialized rights of accusedTuesday July 18th, 2017
Why Bill C-51 will likely lead to wrongful convictions for sexual assault
In his Toronto Sun column of July 9, (“Just some legal spring cleaning”) André Marin took strong exception to recent columns written in opposition to Bill C-51 by me and my National Post colleague Christie Blatchford.
He accused us of shilling for the views of “hysterical defence lawyer...
KAY VS. KAY: HAS CANADA BEEN GOOD FOR THE JEWS?Thursday July 13th, 2017
As Canada celebrates its 150th anniversary, it offers the opportunity for the Jewish community to evaluate its role within Canadian society, and how it has evolved since Confederation. Has Canada been good for the Jews? Has the anti-Semitism that previous generations faced after immigrating to this country largely disappeared? Or have many of the anti-Jewish sentiments th...
Bring on the sex robots and make our world a better placeWednesday July 12th, 2017
In the case of controversial sex bots, which seem to me a victimless fetish, I find myself remarkably unoffended, even somewhat boosterish at their potential for alleviating human distress
At Toronto’s Idea City last month, where I spoke, no fewer than four presenters addressed the fast-approaching era when beef will be replaced by plant-based proteins. At a breakout session,...
Doctors who conscientiously object to providing euthanasia referrals should not be forced to do soWednesday June 21st, 2017
Conscientious objectors shouldn't be shunned for merely holding to the originalist criterion of their vocation.
From June 12 to 15, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice heard legal arguments relating to conscience rights for doctors in Ontario. Five doctors and three physicians’ organizations want the court to declare portions of policies created by the College of Physicia...
The West's willful blindness to the threat of Islamist terrorism knows no boundsTuesday June 20th, 2017
In January 2016, a 24-year-old woman in Mannheim, Germany was reportedly raped by three migrants. At first, she identified them to police as German nationals, later explaining her lie as reluctance to “help fuel aggressive racism.” Then, astonishingly, she wrote a letter of apology to her attackers in which she blamed her society for their crime, saying “I wanted an open Eu...
Kathy Griffin just learned a tough lesson about free speech — sometimes, people tell you you’re firedWednesday June 7th, 2017
Pity naive comedian Kathy Griffin. She discovered, to her cost, there are limits to tolerance for edgy humour, even amongst the entertainment world’s most irreverent, Trump-loathing denizens.
In a now-infamous photo released by photographer Tyler Shields on Twitter last week, a deadpan Griffin holds aloft — in mock ISIL-style trophy mode — the bloody, lookalike “head” of Donald Trump....
Scheer should ensure fathers have the same parenting rights as mothers in child custody disputesWednesday May 31st, 2017
My success rate for failed predictions remains unsullied. Just as I confidently predicted Donald Trump would never win the primaries, and then just as confidently predicted he would never win the presidency, I likewise predicted that Maxime Bernier was a shoo-in for the Conservative Party of Canada leadership race.
I paid scant attention to the winner, Andrew Scheer, during the race, and now am...
Congratulations, Mr. Scheer. Might I suggest that equal shared parenting be one of your key policy planks?Wednesday May 31st, 2017
My success rate for failed predictions remains unsullied. Just as I confidently predicted Donald Trump would never win the primaries, and then just as confidently predicted he would never win the presidency, I likewise predicted that Maxime Bernier was a shoo-in for the Conservative Party of Canada leadership race.
I paid scant attention to the winner, Andrew Scheer, during the race, and now am...
Pro-hijab kids book sends dangerous messageTuesday May 30th, 2017
In my last Rebel video, I spoke about the hijab and the push to normalize it in our culture.
If adult women freely choose to wear the hijab, that’s concerning but essentially their business.
But I get angry when I read propaganda in the form of children’s literature that pushes the hijab on little girls, and I am learning that there are more and more ...
A lone academic dares to challenge accepted narratives about Canada’s residential school systemTuesday May 23rd, 2017
As the token conservative on otherwise liberal panels, I have been a regular contributor to CBC radio’s comedy news trivia program, Because News, since September 2016. I was let go from this panel last week for my politically incorrect views on indigenous cultural appropriation (that I did not even express on CBC). I can now empathize (as opposed to merely sympathize) with t...
Why does a report on ‘gender equality’ in mental health all but ignore the illnesses of men and boys?Tuesday May 16th, 2017
In a column last March, I described the radical progressive mind’s inability to see iniquities on the left and its fixation with right-wing evil as the ideological equivalent of a neurological syndrome called “hemispatial neglect.” Those afflicted with hemispatial neglect lose recognition of space on one entire side of the body. It isn’t that they have a desire to see what’s on the side that is...
Why does a report on ‘gender equity’ in mental health all but ignore the illnesses of men and boys?Tuesday May 16th, 2017
In a column last March, I described the radical progressive mind’s inability to see iniquities on the left and its fixation with right-wing evil as the ideological equivalent of a neurological syndrome called “hemispatial neglect.” Those afflicted with hemispatial neglect lose recognition of space on one entire side of the body. It isn’t that they have a desire to see what’s on the side that is...
“Stealthing”: Feminists open Pandora’s box of sexual assault double standardsFriday May 12th, 2017
As the definition of sex assault becomes broader and shallower, men become ever more vulnerable to the heavy hand of a legal system that is biased toward women.
“Stealthing” is an immoral behaviour practiced by both men and women, but only punishes men.
Watch as I explain why what has come to be accepted in Canadian law as a form of “reproductiv...
In landlord vs. religious Muslim couple, no one won. Everyone lostTuesday May 9th, 2017
Years ago, my then-lawyer son was seeking affordable lodging in Manhattan. He discovered many landlords wouldn’t rent to lawyers: too quick to litigate small grievances. This was a permitted form of rental discrimination? Yes, according to my son, who wouldn’t have conformed to that stereotype, but was penalized for it anyway.
I wondered about the discretion allowed to Canadian landlords....
The problem with Handmaid’s Tale is that it’s not a believable dystopia. It’s sci-fiTuesday May 2nd, 2017
The current Hulu remake of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, is getting rave reviews. But I passed on it.
Handmaids projects a Christian theocracy — the Republic of Gilead — that has replaced American democracy, and consigned women to their most reductive biological roles as forced breeders in a mysteriously infertile society. I’m interested in artistic dystopias — the word alw...
An old truth packaged in a new study: fat is good for you
Tuesday September 12th, 2017
Promoting “nanny dogs” is a threat to public health
Tuesday August 15th, 2017
Pro-hijab kids book sends dangerous message
Tuesday May 30th, 2017
