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Barbara Kay: Mary Simon’s flippancy about French is a danger to Canada

  • July 9, 2021
It was always very likely that the new governor general would be Indigenous, so Inuk leader and former ambassador Mary Simon’s appointment came as no surprise. And the news was warmly received: obs...
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Barbara Kay: Canadian sovereigntists are more likely to take cues from Belgium than Scotland

  • September 10, 2014
With polls pointing to a very close vote in Scotland’s referendum on independence, some Canadian pundits are nervously contemplating the effect on Quebec nationalism if the Yes side shoul...
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Barbara Kay: The desperate separatist quest for winning conditions

  • February 26, 2014
The issues that preoccupy the politically engaged in other provinces — the economy, infrastructure, public services — are incidental beside the only question that seems to matter to...
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Barbara Kay: Jean-François Lisée, Quebec’s minister in charge of blowing smoke at anglos

  • February 22, 2013
Jean-François Lisée, the Quebec minister charged with improving government relations with the province’s anglophones, has a way with words. Words that soothe, words that fla...
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Justice a la carte (National Post March 26, 2008)

  • March 26, 2008
Barbara Kay, National Post   Published: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 Rowan Williams, Anglican Primate of all England, shocked Britons recently, stating tha...
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The best reader a columnist could have (National Post, July 06, 2005)

  • July 6, 2005
This column, approximately my 100th, marks my second anniversary of weekly contribution to the National Post. Happy contemplation of this milestone was cut short, though, by distressing parallel news ...
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