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Full Comment: Where are all the gay brides and grooms? (National Post August 02,2007)

  • August 2, 2007
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...
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Rebelling against a culture of porn
  • August 8, 2007

Published: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 Which is the greater oppression -- sexual virtue imposed by the patriarchy, or sexual libertinism imposed by the matriarchy? They call it e...
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Full Comment: Barbara Kay on Alan Nadler's confused, contradictory defense of Hasidic civic manners(National Post August 13,2007)

  • August 13, 2007
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In praise of the beaten path (National Post August 15,2007)

  • August 15, 2007
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...
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At a 'Catholic' college, the writing's on the wall (National Post September 05,2007)

  • September 5, 2007
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...
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Canadians reject the mainstream (National Post September 12,2007)

  • September 12, 2007
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...
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Trapped On St. Urbain Street (National Post September 17,2007)   

  • September 17, 2007
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...
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Re: Information About the Canadian Islamic Congree (Canadian Coallition September 17,2007)

  • September 17, 2007
[ 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...
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Forgetting the male victims of child abuse (National Post September 26,2007)   

  • September 26, 2007
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...
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Erasing the British influence on modern Quebec (National Post October 03,2007)

  • October 3, 2007
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...
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Full Comment: Barbara Kay responds to Michael Bliss on yesterdays conservatism (National Post October 03,2007)

  • October 3, 2007
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From Chatelaine, a condescending rant by yesterday's feminist (National Post October 10,2007)

  • October 10, 2007
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...
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Living life by Facebook rules (National Post October 17,2007)

  • October 17, 2007
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 ...
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Forget the awards. Just give me a good read(National Post October 19,2007)

  • October 19, 2007
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...
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Liberate The Campus(National Post October 24,2007)

  • October 24, 2007
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:...
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Dumbledore has been diminished(National Post October 25,2007)

  • October 25, 2007
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...
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From desperate separatists, a Hail Mary pass(National Post October 31,2007)

  • October 31, 2007
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...
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An Embattled Champion Of Male Values(National Post November 07, 2007)

  • November 7, 2007
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. ...
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I just had to get on with it(National Post November 14, 2007)

  • November 14, 2007
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...
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The college campus: Anti-Semitism's last North American refuge & Taking back the campus (National Post November 21 & 28, 2007)

  • November 21, 2007
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...
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