Is multilingualism always an unalloyed blessing? May not absolute
command of a single language be preferable to mere competence in two or
more?Promotions for the new movie, The Interpreter, a thriller...
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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...
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...
'Blonde Bombshell"! "Whore"! "Dipstick"! "Barbie!" The media
Belindatron has whirled for days with outrage over sexism against poor
Ms. Stronach. Never mind Belinda's opportunistic betrayal of her par...
MONTREAL - The French have just voted non to the EU constitution.
Current EU president Jean-Claude Juncker says countries voting No need
a second referendum to obtain "the right answer." That ploy can...
Summer reading lists are sprouting in the weekend newspapers.
Everything sounds beguiling, so how does one choose? I'm sometimes
lucky judging books by their cover. For example, my latest purchase,
ir...
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...
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...
KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine - As Canada Day approaches -- with American
Independence Day close on its heels -- I feel distant from Prime
Minister Paul Martin and very close to President George Bush. It isn't...
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 ...
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...
MONTREAL - I was startled -- not in a good way -- to learn from
political scientist Jean-Sebastien Rioux in a Post op ed last week that
a majority of (francophone) callers to a Radio-Canada talk show
...
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 ...
Lo, how the mighty hath fallen. Can it really be true? I have just
read that the Atkins Diet empire has crumbled. They've declared
bankruptcy. I imagine all the sugar industry executives in America ar...
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...
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...
Have you seen March of the Penguins?The film chronicles
Antarctica's Emperor penguins on their multiple annual 70-mile treks
from feeding to breeding grounds. They suffer astonishing privations in
ord...
There's a convention in column-writing that makes us shrink from
mentioning the accomplishments of our op-ed page confreres. None of us
wants to come across as a groupie in print. Instead, we send eac...
To earn their keep, all I ever ask of royals or their Canadian
surrogates is to make me feel honoured in their presence. I do not take
a G-G's measure from the stirring kitsch of an installation speec...
My husband enjoys telling people how he "proposed" marriage to me.
Ronny was from Montreal but working in Toronto at the time. It was
1964. I was in my last undergrad year of university. After we'd da...