Barbara Kay asks: Where are all the gay brides and grooms? I am indebted to a faithful reader, Joseph Beaudoin, who occasionally writes for Insight. The facts below were gleaned from an a...
For two Wednesdays following today, readers will see the cryptic notice, "Barbara Kay will return," where my column would otherwise be. My regular readers will know that we are vacationin...
King's University College, an affiliate of the University of Western Ontario, treasures its 2007 Race Relations Award from the City of London, Ont. It's proof that the Catholic liberal arts colleg...
I was 21 when I got married in the early 1960s, and not a moment too soon. I felt I was on the cusp of being perceived as an "old" bride. My older sister had married a month after her 19th birthda...
Six years after his death, Mordecai Richler remains a giant of the Canadian literary firmament, and interest in his work remains strong. This week, CBC Television will air a two-part adaptation of...
[ Follow-Ups ] [ Post Followup ] [ Canadian Coalition for Democracies Public Message Forum ] Posted by By B. Kay on 09:24:24 2007/12/17 In Reply to: Information About the Canadian Is...
At the age of 26, 10 years before earning his first million dollars as cofounder of the Second Cup coffee empire, Frank O'Dea was a homeless alcoholic panhandler. Almost 40 years on, the reason fo...
The year 2008 marks the 400th anniversary of French explorer Samuel de Champlain's arrival on the shores of what would become Quebec City. Celebratory plans abound. Predictably, although f...
A jubilant Montreal Gazette headline announced on Monday: "We've got babies on the brain." July births in Quebec -- 7,400 -- are the highest monthly total this decade, and 2007 the busiest year fo...
From the burgeoning annals of that wildfire phenomenon, the "social utility that connects people with friends" --better known as Facebook -- comes a cautionary tale of a guy who is, as the saying ...
Hard on the heels of the controversial Nobel Peace Prize for Al Gore comes news of the more modest, but -- according to some critics --equally inappropriate Man Booker Prize awarded Oct. 16 to Dub...
The Post's columnists have been tasked with advocating change in one institution, policy or attitude to help "fix" Canada. I have chosen the Petri dish for many of Canada's problematic tendencies:...
Harry Potter series author J.K. Rowling has caused a sensation by revealing that the beloved headmaster of Hogwarts and Harry Potter's mentor, protector and sometimes surrogate father, Albus Dumbl...
It's usually satisfying for a pundit to anticipate the direction of a political wind, but I take no pleasure whenever one of my gloomy predictions about Quebec materializes. For example, I was sco...
As Remembrance Day approaches, the media's wartime love affair with our troops serves as an ironic reminder of how rarely in the fourth estate one sees sympathetic editorial treatment of manhood. ...
While the sun set on the British empire years ago, a significant anniversary on Nov. 20 reminds us that it is also beginning to set on two lingering quintessential qualities associated with Britain...
A1930s Jewish joke has two Polish yeshiva students walking down the street, suddenly aware of a pair of anti-Semitic thugs behind them brandishing sticks. The boys flee, the hooligans in pur...