Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2010
My 2011 will begin with a bang. Literally. When we return from our annual Laurentian Yuletide holiday in e...
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Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010
I hope, after I have shuffled off this mortal coil, that none of my granddaughters will turn into useful i...
In teenhood, mere days after I got my licence, I was pulled over while driving. My law-abiding heart thumping furiously, I asked the officer why he had stopped me. He mildly informed me th...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2010
The wind is howling. Snow is piling up faster than it can be shovelled away. The days are short. Civilizati...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Friday, Dec. 3, 2010
As proof that there is no subject on earth so trivial that it cannot be transmogrified into an entertaining co...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the 43-year-old Iranian woman sentenced to death in 2006, is still alive. The d...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010
In an op-ed published in Monday's National Post -- titled, Too Jewish then, too Asian now -- cultural cr...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Friday, Nov. 19, 2010
In the West, the idea of stoning a woman to death for adultery, or for any reason at all, evokes revulsion.
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He just couldn’t leave well enough alone. Judge Alfred Stong, I mean, who presided over the Elaine Campione murder trial. Two days ago the jury brought in a decision of first-d...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010
Last week Ontario announced it will begin impounding cars of fathers who fall behind in their child support ...
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The who’s who of Canada’s cultural elite — that is to say, Toronto’s glitterati — will all be at the Scotiabank...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010
'Don't hate me because I'm rational," read one sign at last weekend's Jon Stewart/ Stephen Colbert Washington rally, organized to...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010
During my last round of buffing at the Montreal aesthetics salon that I frequent, I enjoyed an interesting...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010
Last Saturday I chatted with a young woman I met after a panel discussion I'd participated in. "A...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010
In April, Belgium became the first Western country to ban face cover in public. France, which has for years...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010
According to Israeli literary lion Hillel Halkin, Islam is "an insult to human intelligence." Th...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010
Prostitution has Canadians' attention, thanks to a recent Ontario court ruling striking down barriers t...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010
Responding to a Charter challenge mounted by three prostitutes, the Ontario Superior Court has struck down the prostitution law tha...
I love doing talk radio shows. There's no downside. It's fun, informal, gets your issue out there and it may even lead to a few more people reading your column.
Mostly, I g...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010
In the name of changing social mores and social justice, Ottawa's 1998 Special Joint Committee on Chi...