Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010
Quebec's roving public consultations on euthanasia and assisted suicide began on Sept. 7, and wrap up...
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Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010
This is a tribute column to one of the National Post's most loyal fans, Lois Hashimoto, who died last ...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010
Back to school! To mark the occasion, I recommend a little book for parents of school-age children. The no-nonsense title o...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010
Recently friends invited my husband Ronny and me and another couple to dinner at their upscale tennis club. Upon our arriva...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010
In one of those neat coincidences that bring a gleam to a columnist's eye, the news cycle last month brought us C...
In its Aug. 2 round-up of “Good News” and “Bad News,” Maclean’s magazine included under “Bad News” the Syrian government’s decision to ban n...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Jul. 28, 2010
"Strange times to be a Jew." That's the master theme, voiced early and demonstrated often, in a haunting 2...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Jul. 21, 2010
Writing about Canadian fiction last September, I bemoaned Canadian publishers' penchant for somnolent navel-gazing over...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Jul. 14, 2010
Last Thursday, my daughter dispatched me to fetch my five-year old granddaughter home from summer camp. Normally, accompani...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Friday, Jul. 9, 2010
Touchy subject, kids in restaurants. Some people seem to think restaurants are like public parks and must accept all comers who...
Afshan Azad in London on July 3, 2007.
Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Jul. 7, 2010
U.K. Actress Afshan Azad (best known as Hogwarts student "Padma" ...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Jun. 30, 2010
My husband and I spend June near a certain adorable coastal town in Maine. It isn't exactly St. Barts-- but it does often yield a notable ...
Is there a solution to honour killings? Should we be doing more to impress on immigrants that barbaric customs from their home countries are not acceptable here? Full Comment presents a panel di...
Happy are those for whom Father's Day means a barbecue and a card poking fun at Dad's foibles. Not so much for children whose "father" was anonymous sperm sold to creat...
It's convocation season. Although not de rigeur, university convocation keynote speakers usually receive an honorary doctorate as well. Which means they are ... well, what nowadays does it ...
On May 27, Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe tried to set a political persecution in motion by "outing" several completely innocent people: "Mr. Speaker, Ottawa's bishop s...
To inaugurate a Domestic Violence Awareness Day conference in London, Ont., this coming Saturday, a vigil and commemorative ceremony will be held for Dave Lucio.
Dave Lucio’s...
A study released May 26 on birth and abortion rates for girls aged 15-19 in four countries – Canada, the U.S., England/Wales and Sweden –presents data showing that between 1996-2006 Canada’s t...
Last week, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney indicated he will shortly unveil a complete overhaul of the means by which immigration consultants are regulated. After years of bitter infighting and ...
Whether they admit it or not, virtually all Westerners hate the niqab and burka for the anti-democratic ideology and misogynistic gender relations they signify. Many are increasingly willing to...