There are only two polemically unassailable positions on abortion: (1) never, because it is always murder; and (2) whenever, because an unborn baby is part of the mother's body, hers to d...
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It seems the rules are changing on who gets a state funeral in Canada. Jack Layton never led a government, never sat in cabinet and never served as governor-general. According to protocol and traditio...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Aug. 10, 2011 | Last Updated: Aug. 10, 2011 3:03 AM ET
What's the worst thing that ever happens in Canadian fiction? Somebody f...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Aug. 4, 2011 | Last Updated: Aug. 4, 2011 3:06 AM ET
When my son was a boy, he and a friend used to have the kind of idle conversations that made...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Aug. 3, 2011 | Last Updated: Aug. 3, 2011 5:24 AM ET
On Aug. 14 in Vancouver, a bonfire will be lit to launch the Ignite The Road to...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Jul. 27, 2011 | Last Updated: Jul. 27, 2011 3:12 AM ET
Tonight will be our last night in the big Edwardian pile of a house my husba...
I received an email last week from a father in southern Ontario who has a seven-year-old son enrolled in his town's day camp. On the camp's "gender-bender" day last week, when the...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Jul. 6, 2011 | Last Updated: Jul. 6, 2011 2:02 AM ET
When I was young, and assumed social mores were etched in stone, I feared growing old.
Back then, "old" meant ab...
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"Did you hear Rob Ford is skipping the Pride parade because he'd rather spend a weekend at the cottage than celebrate our sexuality? can you believe it?"
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Barbara Kay, National Post · Jun. 22, 2011 | Last Updated: Jun. 22, 2011 2:02 AM ET
A while ago a Toronto policeman had the misfortune to suggest publicly that women who didn't w...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Jun. 15, 2011 | Last Updated: Jun. 15, 2011 3:03 AM ET
Shania Twain recently published a memoir detailing her anguish at her ex-husband's affair with...
Honour motivated violence continues to make the headlines -- even here in Canada. We chat with columnist and ideaCity 2011 presenter Barbara Kay about this important topic.
It isn’t alway...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Jun. 8, 2011 | Last Updated: Jun. 8, 2011 2:03 AM ET
The most popular attraction at most zoos is the primate section. We're all fascinated by chimps,...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Jun. 1, 2011 | Last Updated: Jun. 1, 2011 2:03 AM ET
Remarkably, a PhD student in Criminology at the University of Toronto, Alexandra Lysova, has been awarde...
Barbara Kay, National Post · May 25, 2011 | Last Updated: May 25, 2011 3:18 AM ET
In 1978, a children's book was published called X: A Fabulous Child's Story, about a child w...
On Wednesday, the prestigious Man Booker International Prize, accompanied by £60,000, was awarded to American author Philip Roth. However, media attention was rather dramatically diverted fro...
Barbara Kay, National Post · May 18, 2011 | Last Updated: May 18, 2011 3:16 AM ET
Insite, in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside is the only "safe-injection site" (SIS) i...
In his wilder dreams, the relentlessly optimistic Jack Layton may have envisaged taking political ownership of Quebec, but I'm still reeling from it. Happily, though. All the Bloc Québécois cared...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Apr. 27, 2011 | Last Updated: Apr. 27, 2011 4:07 AM ET
Grief over the loss of a loved one is a universal phenomenon. But grief's expression and atten...
In a robust democracy, fringe political parties such as the Trotskyists and the Marijuana party are cute. They're like four-week old puppies, confidently waddling around a crate they assume is ...