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A fraudster, not a murderer (National Post April 08, 2009)

  • April 8, 2009
Barbara Kay, National Post Published: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 Fifty-two-year-old Johnson Aziga was convicted this past weekend on two counts of first degree murder, 10 counts of ag...
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A perversion of art (National Post, May 13, 2009)

  • May 13, 2009
Barbara Kay, National Post  Published: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 An old New Yorker cartoon has four men contemplating an abstract painting in a gallery. Two of th...
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An Accidental Journalist (National Post April 29, 2009)

  • April 29, 2009
Barbara Kay, National Post Published: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 Much has been written in recent months about the future of newspapers. In a week-long ...
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An intellectual infection

  • July 23, 2009
An intellectual infection Barbara Kay, National Post  Published: Wednesday, June 05, 2009 Last week York Humanities professor Martin Lockshin wrote a column in these p...
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An ugly truth

  • November 17, 2009
Finally, the government has explicitly recognized that socially approved violence against women is barbaric   Last week the Post published excerpts from the new guidebook issued by Citizenshi...
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  • May 5, 2009
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Barbarians within the gate (National Post February 18, 2009)

  • February 18, 2009
Barbarians within the gate Barbara Kay, National Post Published: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 The Canadian Institute for Conflict Resolution...
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Boy-hating is in

  • October 21, 2009
As my first-born was a boy, I quite reasonably hoped for a girl the second time around. In my technologically antediluvian era, one discovered one's child's sex upon delivery. So the long gestationa...
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Brainwashing the kids to spite the ex (National Post February 9, 2009)

  • February 9, 2009
In what has been called a "stunning and unusual family law decision" released Jan. 16, a Toronto father was awarded sole custody of his three daughters, aged nine to 14. The "persistent and overwhel...
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Burka Barbie

  • December 2, 2009
In the process of conveying a general idea or a cue to an emotional response, we often seek instinctive recourse in a linguistic device called antonomasia. We'll substitute an antonomastic ...
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Chewing: A brief history

  • October 28, 2009
You'll never see a fat chimpanzee in the wild. Chimps spend about six hours a day chewing their diet of raw fruits and vegetation to absorb enough energy to survive. That explains their wide mouths ...
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Cutting off their noses to spite their race

  • November 25, 2009
Last week, while sitting in my plastic surgeon's waiting room reading brochures extolling the magical properties of mysteriously named "fillers" that can reverse nature's cruel depradations to the f...
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David Solway’s Hear, O Israel!: A Feast for the Conservative Mind

  • December 21, 2009
Hear, O Israel! By David Solway Canadian Values Press (Mantua Books) 181 pages; $25 On September 10, 2001, Canadian David Solway was merely an acclaimed poet, educator, and literary cr...
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Death's sunny waiting room

  • December 9, 2009
I have two sisters, an older and a younger. We like to pretend we all make our life choices independently, but in fact, every little decision by one sister immediately prompts low-grade competitive...
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Dying in beauty

  • September 9, 2009
What is the state of Canadian literature? For many readers and authors, the answer is "flourishing and rich." For others, it's "floundering and forgettable." In a week-long series, National Post con...
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England's perished cultural sun

  • October 8, 2009
On our first trip to London some 35 years ago, my husband and I sought directions to a point of interest from two obvious City denizens, bowler-hatted gentlemen in three-piece suits, carrying briefc...
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Fat, and getting fatter (National Post, May 27, 2009)

  • May 27, 2009
Fat, and getting fatter Barbara Kay, National Post  Published: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 This past weekend, we were in the United States, land of the free --and the fat....
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Feminism is still assaulting academia (National Post, May 20, 2009)

  • May 20, 2009
Feminism is still assaulting academia Barbara Kay, National Post  Published: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 If I were writing a novel illustrating the sad decline of academic...
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Fictional Drivel (National Post February 25, 2009)

  • February 25, 2009
Barbara Kay, National Post  Published: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 Monday's front page news contained an unprecedented case of literary lese majeste. A parent of a Gr...
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From toad hall to the book of psalms

  • August 12, 2009
As the summer reading season peaks, debates abound over what books serve the soul best. The answer, many argue, depends on the age of the reader Barbara Kay, National Post  ...
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