From the loving, engaged portrayals of fathers featured in recent popular movies like “The Descendants,” “Moneyball” and “A Better Life” — all three per...
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WESTMOUNT, Que. — I was smitten by an enormous pang of guilt when I read that the Nicholas Hoare bookshop, for 40 years a fixture in my neighbourhood’s tiny, semi-tony shopping hub, is closi...
Nobody disputes the fact that preterm birth (PTB) is a risk factor for a number of infant and childhod afflictions. The more extreme the prematurity, the worse the problems. The most feared risk as...
Conservative backbencher Mark Warawa is making life miserable for the opposition. He has asked the Commons to approve a motion – M408 – to “condemn discrimination against females ...
Ronald started using drugs at 14, soon falling into a life of crime and ending up in Vancouver’s notorious Downtown Eastside (DTES). At 40, he stopped using. Drug-free for seven years, he now...
Family photoRaymond Cave and Linda Dawe lost touch after the pain of surrendering their child as tenagers, but reconnected at their high school reunion in 2006 and found ...
The Alberta Council of Women’s Shelters (ACWS) has just published the results of a Leger Marketing poll of 1000 men age 18 and over on their views of domestic violence.
According to the s...
October is National Anti-Bullying month. As a tragic reminder of the need for this, we learn that 15-year old Amanda Todd, a former “spunky” cheerleader and Grade 10 student at th...
Today, August 1, marks the implementation of Israel’s new draft law that will end 60 years of sanctioned draft-dodging for thousands of Ultra-Orthodox men in the Haredi community.
The exe...
There are two main categories of women killers, and both types were featured on the front page of the National Post today.
One article, “’Burning-bed cases rarer than thought”...
It’s not targeted to my demographic, but I love the TV series Glee.
The talent is dazzling, the production numbers gloriously executed: It’s like watching a mini-Broadway show in the comfort ...
There used to be a time when beauty contests were only about beauty. Fortunately that all changed, and beauty queens today hold and express confidently strong opinions on how to make the world a be...
A few months ago, a young Saudi man, Hamza Kashgari, expressed his views on the prophet Mohammed in a Tweet: “I have loved things about you and I have hated things about you and there is a lo...
Don’t you feel sorry for atheists? They’re so downtrodden. They can’t catch a break. People are always saying to them, “Oh sorry, no, you can’t apply for this job....
The first radical shake-up of family courts in decades is under way in the U.K. A dramatic list of consequences will befall any breach of court orders that flout court-endorsed arrangements for the ca...
Not for the first time, I must take issue with my colleague Chris Selley’s occluded interpretation of why burka-haters get “pretty crazy about that issue,” as he says in his lates...
But enough already about the U.S. elections. Instead, let me tell you about the 90 minutes that I spent two weeks ago taping a one-on-one interview with Montreal public-affairs journalist Richard M...
I see that famous dog whisperer Cesar Millan will appear at Toronto’s Bell Centre Sunday as part of the 19-city Canadian tour of his show, “Trust Your Instincts.” Tickets to hear ...
A Windsor, Ontario licensing commission has unanimously voted to have a 3-pound Chihuahua declared a “dangerous dog.” Molly, the canine mite in question, is accused of nipping a postal ...
Four words in the first sentence of an article on the sudden enthusiasm for “birth photography” caught my attention in a big way, after which I found it difficult to focus fully on what fo...