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A Father's Day I'd like to see (National Post, June 15, 2005)

  • June 15, 2005
Father's Day is meant to celebrate dads. This year, instead of buying them ties or barbecue tools, let's pledge to roll back the ideological campaign aimed at belittling their virtues and achievements...
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A Lance of my own (National Post, July 27, 2005)

  • July 27, 2005
International competitions like the Tour de France, or the World Aquatic Championships now in progress in Montreal, motivate kids to take up sport. That's good. But over-ambitious parents of talented ...
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A land with no leaders (National Post, May 11, 2005)

  • May 11, 2005
A federal election is imminent or in prospect. With two parties -- the Bloc Quebecois and the NDP -- mired in a state of permanent opposition, we are left to ponder a choice between Paul Martin and St...
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Academic freedom is under attack (National Post, January 12, 2005)

  • January 12, 2005
Canadian students in the arts and social science departments of our universities are being recruited to the hyperorthodoxies of multiculturalism, feminism, Marxism, postmodernism and...
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Adoption is forever (National Post, April 06, 2005)

  • April 6, 2005
When our children were toddlers, my husband and I planned a vacation by ourselves involving a transatlantic flight. Morbid images of downed planes and orphaned children assailed us. Since there were s...
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Another victim of PC orthodoxy (National Post, October 26, 2005)

  • October 26, 2005
After certain publicized remarks he made about women colleagues at a Toronto trade event a few weeks ago, legendary adman Neil French was forced to resign as worldwide creative director for ...
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At the nail salon, boredom's antidote (National Post, December 7, 2005)

  • December 7, 2005
Archimedes discovered his hydrostatic principle while sloshing about in the tub. I too had my "Eureka!" moment, when I suddenly realized why men throw themselves into their careers...
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Awakening the conservative within (National Post, November 30, 2005)

  • November 30, 2005
Published: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 MONTREAL - There's a book launch tonight at S...
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Befriend the sinner, banish the sin (National Post, June 22, 2005)

  • June 22, 2005
MONTREAL - Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick,Yet with my nobler reason, 'gainst my furyDo I take part: the rarer action isIn virtue than in vengeance..." (The Tempest, Prospero to...
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Break the feminist lock on abortion policy (National Post, March 23, 2005)

  • March 23, 2005
Too bad Scott and Laci Peterson weren't Canadian. Had they been, the Conservatives might have felt emboldened to add a review of abortion policy to their agenda, instead of sweeping fetal rights under...
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Breaking faith with Jane Austen (National Post, November 16, 2005)

  • November 16, 2005
Pride and Prejudice, arguably the most-loved novel in English literature, is a magnet for film and TV directors. Understandably: The story of middle-class Elizabeth Bennet and the aristocrat...
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Cancer patients deserve better (National Post, April 27, 2005

  • April 27, 2005
At my age, nobody hasn't had a personal brush with cancer. If not yourself, others in your extended family or circle of friends have it or did: Some are now dead, some have undergone multiple surgerie...
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Charlotte Simmons' world - and my own (National Post, January 29, 2005)

  • January 29, 2005
Master satirist of the American Zeitgeist Tom Wolfe has previously tackled the swarming social habitats of modern New York and Atlanta, and the cultural forces that shaped them. In h...
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Circumcision: vindicated at last (National Post, July 13, 2005)

  • July 13, 2005
The International AIDS Society will meet in Rio de Janeiro later this month. There, senior researcher Bertran Auvert, representing the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, will an...
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Conrad's London, then as now (National Post, August 10, 2005)

  • August 10, 2005
At his recent trial, Mohammed Bouyeri, 27, a Dutch citizen of Moroccan descent, who last year ghoulishly assassinated film-maker Theo Van Gogh, coldly addressed the victim's tormented mother: "I don't...
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Don't talk to him (National Post, May 18, 2005)

  • May 18, 2005
Two years ago, David Ahenakew, former national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, was charged with promoting hatred in a 2002 rant against Jews. His unprovoked denunciations, captured by a report...
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Enter the modern sleuth, fat, drunk and incompetent (National Post, September 7, 2005)

  • September 7, 2005
The older I get, the more I feel that whatever I read should educate, edify or elucidate. Only on vacation do I feel justified indulging myself in the "mere" entertainment of detective fiction.I looke...
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Eulogist for the American dream (National Post, February 14, 2005)

  • February 14, 2005
Like many contemporaries who saw their parents diminished by external forces, Arthur Miller railed bitterly against the random suffering imposed by capitalism Broadway theatres dimmed their marquee...
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Fighting is for men (National Post, November 9, 2005)

  • November 9, 2005
As soon as Remembrance Day lapel poppies make their annual appearance, wars, old and new, occupy my thoughts. I am especially keen to see the film Jarhead, which tells the story of a U.S. Ma...
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From Abraham to Seinfeld, kvetching galore (National Post, October 19, 2005)

  • October 19, 2005
'When I was a teenager, it used to terrify me when I entered non-Jewish households. No one raised their voices. They talked elegantly and meaningfully about absolutely nothing. With nuan...
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