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...
National Post
National Post
AJuly 29 article in the Toronto Star, entitled “Ontario’s pit bull ban: The pit bull underground railroad,” compels my brisk re-entry into the debate over dangerous-dog legislatio...
So the famous atheist Sam Harris believes that “free will is an illusion” and every single thing we do or say is programmed to be said or done by our genes or early childhood experiences. Suc...
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...
Say what you will about Mordecai Richler – and much has been said, with love, hate and everything in between – he was a gifted writer of international status and renown. One critic called him...
When my children were toddlers, I advertised for a mother’s helper (as we then called them) who could provide me with summer-long help, stipulating that candidates must be at least 15 and abl...
Marni Soupcoff says the chuckwagon races at the Calgary Stampede should be cancelled because the latest accident, in which three horses died, prove that the sport is just too inherently risky to th...
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...
The head of Jun Lin, the dismembered and defiled victim of alleged killer Luka Magnotta, was discovered a few days ago in a Montreal park.
This exceptional case — it is unusual for killer...
There’s nothing more humiliating for a journalist than pontificating on a subject with ardent conviction, and then being proved wrong. But there’s nothing more gratifying for...
Ocean or lake?
Ocean or lake?
For ten months a year, we opinion writers are racked by inner debate over the hard news of the world: Should Israel bomb Iran? Can the European Union survive? ...
Although not a gay male, I had a passion for musical theatre in youth, participating in amateur performances whenever opportunity presented. (Mine was the golden era of musicals, many of them in ...
Not since amateur singer Susan Boyle lit up the stage on Britain's Got Talent in 2009 has an obscure, plain, overweight white woman caused such a YouTube sensation. I refer, of course, to grandmother ...
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...
It’s the problem that won’t go away for professionally successful mothers: “work-life balance.” The more they achieve in their careers, the more guilt and tension they feel abo...
Alice Walker, best known as the author of the novel The Color Purple, is a longtime political activist, with a special — one might even say obsessional — fixation on Israel as the avatar o...
I have a big family — and a few of my relatives have gone on to great things. Last week, for instance, a cousin of mine retired, full of honours, from a distinguished 50-year career in child and...
From the loving, engaged portrayals of fathers featured in recent popular movies like “The Descendants,” “Moneyball” and “A Better Life” — all three per...
In his new book, The Secret of the Crown: Canada’s Affair with Royalty, John Fraser describes a 1953 scene in which his not-quite nine-year-old self is sprawled prone in front of “IT.&r...
Nobody doubts the sincerity of Barack Obama’s recent gay-marriage endorsement. But this usually cautious politician’s definitive self-outing is politically puzzling. After all, ordinary...