MONTREAL - My federal riding is Westmount-Ville-Marie, a lengthy east-west strip comprising most of Montreal's downtown core, including three universities, plus the demergered city of We...
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In a now-infamous government-funded research paper revealed last week, three law professors from Queen's University argue that the criminal status of polygamy serves no useful purpose. L...
It can be anti-climactic to finally get what you've long wanted. It isn't that the Conservatives didn't win big enough to please me; it was that the Liberals didn't lose big ...
According to my late mother, the pediatrician to whom my older sister and I were taken for our periodic check-ups was a genius. He claimed to know, just from a child's arm muscles, what ...
The escalating furor over the Danish cartoons depicting Muhammad has morphed from questions of free speech and cultural insensitivity into a clash of two civilizations, both of which honour ...
MONTREAL - 'I'm in love," my daughter Joanne, whose maternity leave is almost over, sighed down the telephone yesterday.
"Ah!" I twigged immediately, knowing this ...
Far from the riots, vandalism, church burnings and murders by Muslim mobs in the wake of the Danish cartoons, Canada has so far played the role of concerned onlooker. Like the proverbial cou...
A tragic irony in the story of Ilan Halimi, the French Jew kidnapped and tortured to death two weeks ago, is that he wanted to emigrate to Israel but, according to his mother, was working to...
In his Monday column, Jonathan Kay gave a thumbs up to Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak, a collection of candid musings by Israeli and Palestinian children designed for a...
My husband Ronny waves a Wall Street Journal clipping at me, exhibiting the smug expression that can mean only one thing: Somebody in authority has proven me wrong on one of his alleged shor...
French is an exquisite language. The French are an articulate people. So why do the French always take to the streets rather than simply exchange views on prospective political or economic c...
This month, there were two high court cases, one in Britain, one in Canada, both dealing with the limits to freedom of religious expression in public schools. The British case met an importa...
Last week, while touring the Middle East and India, Prince Charles and Camilla visited an organic farm in the Punjab. Clearly in his element, Charles engaged his hosts with gusto, closely qu...
Two weeks ago, I proposed that Canada follow France in banning religious accessories from our public schools. I argued that all religious costume on children is a needless social distraction...
Nobody wants to go to war, but there's nothing to compare to the feeling of having fought and survived a victorious one. Mine -- the 1995 Referendum and its toxic aftermath -- was a poli...
MONTREAL - Keen to witness his first triumphant return to Montreal as PM, I made an early reservation at the media table for Stephen Harper's guest appearance at the Montreal Board of Tr...
REHOVOT, Israel - My last trip to Israel was in July, when Tel Aviv is punishingly hot. The landscape was brown and thirsty-looking. One never stepped out of doors -- and never for long in a...
An intriguing article in the Post's April 28 Body and Health section explored the properties of asexuality (not to be confused with celibacy, the voluntary repression of natural urges), ...
Opus Dei, the real-life Catholic fellowship Dan Brown mauls to fictional shreds in his novel The Da Vinci Code, has profited from the public's fascination with the Code phenomenon by ope...
When news broke of Canada's first female combat death last week -- that of Captain Nichola Goddard in an Afghanistan firefight -- Canadians greeted the news in a gender-neutral way. It w...