Articles / Media

BC Conservatives are province's only hope for fair, sex-segregated sports

  • June 2, 2024
In 2021, Linda Blade, former NCAA All-American track and field champion, today a high-performance coach, published a book (which I co-authored): Unsporting: How trans activism and science denial are d...
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National Post

Leaked files expose the ethical rot behind modern transgender medicine

  • March 10, 2024
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) promotes its standards of care (SOC) as a lodestar for the treatment of gender dysphoria. Its devotion to the “affirmation&rdquo...
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National Post

Summer Camp in the Digital Age Propels Some Parents Into Neurotic Overdrive

  • August 8, 2023
In my socially cloistered youth, I assumed that summer camp—especially the sleep-away kind for at least a month’s duration—was the norm for children and teens. In time, I realized th...
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The Epoch Times

Generation XXX: Billie Eilish is right about how porn warps kids

  • December 16, 2021
On Monday, singing sensation Billie Eilish, only 19 years old, confessed to Howard Stern that she had started watching porn movies on TV while still in grade school. “I used to watch a lot...
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New York Post

Barbara Kay: Finding hope in the unlikeliest ways

  • February 26, 2021
In January 2014, Harold Heft, a successful writer, educator and communications executive, learned he had inoperable brain cancer of the kind that killed the Tragically Hip’s Gord Downie. He had ...
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National Post

Barbara Kay: The glaring flaw of ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ that no one wants to mention

  • December 11, 2020
Thanks to a well-crafted Netflix series, “The Queen’s Gambit,” chess is having more than a moment this season. Google chess searches doubled from October to November, and participati...
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National Post

Drug addicts do not benefit from 'harm reduction,' but from rehabilitation and treatment

  • September 11, 2020
On Aug 25 the BC government announced there has been a shocking rise in street drug deaths this year, 175 in the last month and, to date in 2020, more than 900 people, a 136 percent increase from July...
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The Post Millennial

Barbara Kay: Jordan Peterson and the deadly overprescription of benzos

  • February 11, 2020
In a 2018 CBC interview, Wendy Mesley asked Jordan Peterson, then at the zenith of his celebrity, what he thought lay ahead for him. Peterson responded with his typical gloomy realism: “I don...
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National Post

Trump puts on a clinic at State of the Union address

  • February 5, 2020
No matter how much you hate President Trump—and I have some world-class Trump haters in my immediate circle of family and friends, so I know how deeply authentic and ferociously visceral that partic...
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The Post Millennial

Barbara Kay: Will 2020 will be the year of reason in the cancel-culture wars?

  • January 23, 2020
In the hard news business, it is well understood that “if it bleeds, it leads.” In cultural news, the same principle applies. Not a day goes by that we don’t see a story of a panel discussion...
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National Post

In a world of sex dolls and robots, ethics are hard to pin down

  • May 28, 2019
The older I get—and I am already pretty old—the more I struggle to find the bright line that existed in my youth between written words that meant what they said and words that were meant t...
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The Post Millennial

Twitter bans prominent doctor for stating facts

  • May 19, 2019
Twitter has been in our lives for 13 years. But its practice of suspending and banning upright citizens for no other reason than holding incorrect views only got underway about four years ago. Today, ...
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The Post Millennial

Barbara Kay: SNL could never smear another group like it does fathers

  • December 18, 2018
Saturday Night Live usually hits the mark, humour-wise, but when it misses, it can miss big time. On Dec. 1, SNL mounted a skit called “Dad Christmas.” One blogger commented on it, &ldquo...
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National Post

KAY: Can conservatives and liberals really be friends in 2018?

  • December 10, 2018
A dialogue between two former enemies, “Can You Love the Person You Love to Hate?” published by the New York Times, has attracted a lot of attention. The protagonists are female writers wh...
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The Post Millennial

Barbara Kay: Absolutist dogma is chilling transgender research

  • May 31, 2016
Grayson Perry, a successful British potter, has from the age of 10 enjoyed dressing up as a woman. Perry’s “alter ego” Claire sometimes favours a Mrs. Thatcher persona, someti...
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National Post

Barbara Kay: Scandal at CAMH — one entirely of its own making

  • February 3, 2016
CAMH — Toronto’s prestigious Centre for Addiction and Mental Health — now finds itself where no publicly-funded institution wants to be: sitting in the glare of a media spotli...
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National Post

Barbara Kay: The ugly truth about ‘cat ladies’

  • November 17, 2015
Hallowe’en is always a gold mine for cute pics of kids in unusual costumes appearing on social media. One I especially liked this year — I simply had to “share” it &mdas...
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National Post

Barbara Kay: Harvard students want to learn the law without discussing ‘upsetting’ crimes

  • December 18, 2014
There are days when I think the entire media has been taken over by the satirical publication, The Onion, whose hilarious riffs on cultural and political trends skewer political correctness wit...
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National Post

Barbara Kay: Britain’s noble stand against porn

  • July 22, 2013
Warning in a recent speech that access to online pornography was “corroding childhood,” British Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that Internet providers — who he sai...
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National Post

Barbara Kay: Punishing the criminal, treating the addict

  • November 28, 2012
In his latest Saturday column, Conrad Black wrote: “Let us abolish imprisonment for all non-violent offences except the briefest periods, the most egregious offences, or the chronic recidivis...
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National Post