We have heard the story before. The names change, the province changes, the particulars of the custody case change, the age of the dead child changes, but some things stay the same when a mo...
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It would appear that Pope Benedict XVI intends to reinvigorate the beleaguered (Tridentine) Latin mass, which in the late '60s was almost universally replaced by individual vernacular la...
MONTREAL - Last week, while being buffed for an interview on a French-language TV talk show, I observed a quartet of young Muslim women trooping in for their touch-ups. They were amateur mod...
MONTREAL - Just when the newly designed Maclean's seemed finally to have shucked all the turgid remnants of its former politically correct image, the Nov. 6 issue reverted to type on the...
MONTREAL - Pity Sorya Ingrid Gaulin. Her role as VP of Public Relations at Indigo Books and Music demanded she confront the wrathful public face of North America's most formidable conser...
Response to Criticism from Librarian regarding column of
November 01,2006
On the Post's Nov. 11 Letters page, Brenda Roberts, Ottawa Pubic Library librarian, accused me of "inte...
I attended the National Post's lively 8th anniversary party in Toronto last month. Alas, the band was far too loud for my oldie taste. Mindful of encroaching hearing loss, I left early w...
Until August, my name was completely unknown to most of Quebec's francophones. On Aug. 9, that all changed with my National Post column titled "The Rise of Quebecistan." Sudden...
Hunting the fox, skewering the Finn
Renaissance man Roger Scruton serves up original ideas, chiselled prose
Barbara Kay, National Post
Published: Wednesday, November 29, 2006
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Seventeen years ago today Marc Lepine killed 14 women and himself at the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal in Canada's worst mass murder. From this human tragedy of no inherent political s...
Traditionally minded Canadians and their libertine counterparts resemble dysfunctional lovers: The traditionalists' needs go unfulfilled, while their litigious bedmates selfishly achieve...
Comes Christmas, columnists rummage through their metaphorical larders for a hidden morsel of topical originality to tempt readers' jaded palates.
This year, my musings are inspired ...