A just-released study from the Vanier Institute of the Family by York University professor Anne-Marie Ambert, Divorce: Facts, Causes and Consequences, vindicates assumptions many conservatives hold ...
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National Addictions Awareness Week begins today (Nov. 18-24). Everybody -- informed or otherwise -- has an opinion on addiction and how to treat it, so the subject never fails to generate animated p...
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...
They don’t call it the scary-sounding “Hemlock Society” any more. The new name is “Compassion and Choices.” Under this cuddly rubric, bespoke death is now endorsed by respected society matro...
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 ...
"The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society.
The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself...
Chris Wattie, Reuters
The Liberal Women's Caucus has released their 40-page Pink Book, Volume III.
Clearly a great deal of midnight oil was consumed by the Pink Book writers in agonizing about wha...
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...
English poet Philip Larkin, informed that heaven would restore him to a state of childish innocence, abjured the supposed gift, preferring "money, keys, wallets, letters, books, long-playing records...
"[Liberalism] is an ethos that aims simultaneously at political and social collectivism on the one hand, and moral anarchy on the other.
It cannot win, but it can make us all losers."
by I...
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...
Here's a first for me: a citation from the Koran in support of an historically unhappy truth about my people. Surah 59:14 says of the Jews: "There is much hostility between them: Their hearts are di...
MONTREAL -Lately, we have witnessed a pernicious cultural trend toward the rebranding of legalized euthanasia as a gift rather than a menace to society's most vulnerable citizens.
I doubt that Bloc...
Broadly speaking, 9/11 produced two instinctive responses in the thinking population, which then became political positions that have continued to diverge and harden with the years.
The realists in...
"When all is said and done there are just four institutions through which human beings imbue their lives with meaning: vocation, family, community and faith."
- Charles Murray, American Ente...
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...
Are children worth the trouble? For most parents, the answer is a resounding yes. But not so for French writer (and parent) Corinne Maier --author of the newly published book, "No Kids: 40 Good Reas...
"Mankind can never get rid of the need for religious self-identification:
who am I, where did I come from, where do I fit in, why am I responsible, what does my life mean? how will I face death? ...
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 ...
“Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.”
- Ayn Rand ...