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Barbara Kay: When does life begin? Ottawa doesn't want to know

  • May 8, 2013
Top court backs new trial for woman accused of hiding dead baby in trash bagThe Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that a woman accused of hiding her dead baby in a plastic bag must once again stand tr...
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Barbara Kay: Quebec's history, through the separatist looking glass

  • May 15, 2013
When the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage recently was tasked with reviewing the way Canadian history is taught to children, Quebec’s politicians and pedagogical mandarins immediately made th...
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Barbara Kay: Heroic? If you're at high risk for cancer, a double mastectomy is a no-brainer

  • May 15, 2013
When Angelina Jolie talks, people listen. And when Angelina Jolie’s breasts walk, People magazine and all other media listen. Via an op ed in the New York Times, Angelina Jolie has shared her news t...
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Barbara Kay: A quick fix for Montreal's Jewish parking exemption issue — 'parking goys'

  • May 16, 2013
PQ minister takes aim at Jewish parking exemption in apparent attempt to inflame votersSince 1984, Montreal has practised a policy of “parking tolerance” on Jewish high holidays, waiving restricti...
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Barbara Kay: Supreme Court falls for fairy tale that prostitutes are ‘happy hookers,’ not victims

  • December 20, 2013
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that offences to the Criminal Code around prostitution are unconstitutional, reversing a 1990 SCC ruling stating that elimination of prostitution through l...
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Barbara Kay: Battered women should not get away with statutory murder

  • December 20, 2013
In a just-published book, Defending Battered Women on Trial, University of Ottawa law professor Elizabeth Sheehy argues that chronically battered women should have a “statutory escap...
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Barbara Kay: Parenthood is not the government’s job

  • December 19, 2013
I felt sympathy for federal minister for industry James Moore the other day, when he uttered those fateful words to a Vancouver radio reporter: “Is it my job to feed my neighbour&rsq...
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Barbara Kay: Don’t separate babies from convict moms

  • December 17, 2013
The British Columbia Supreme Court has ruled that the cancellation of a prison’s “Mother Baby Program,” which allowed female inmates to serve time with their babies, violated ...
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Barbara Kay: Prof makes bizarre plea to place battered women above the law

  • December 13, 2013
When ideology takes up the brain space normally reserved for reason and the golden principle of equality under the law, the very best minds can go AWOL. That seems to be the case with Uni...
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Barbara Kay: Hard truths about abortion

  • December 11, 2013
One in 10 new cancers worldwide is a female breast cancer. And North American rates of breast cancer are the highest in the world. While there is no magic bullet assuring prevention, epid...
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Barbara Kay: Yet more family law gender injustice

  • December 10, 2013
A year ago 19-year old Preston King was a light-hearted young Southern California man in love with his high school sweetheart. Her pregnancy changed their lives dramatically. But, even though t...
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Barbara Kay: Don’t exaggerate ‘rape culture’ on campus

  • December 4, 2013
Sixteen months ago, three McGill University Redmen football players were charged with sexual assault of a former Concordia student whom they met in a Montreal bar. The incident was described, i...
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Barbara Kay: Fear the slippery slope

  • November 27, 2013
Quebec’s advocates for legalized euthanasia approve of Belgium’s system, which makes accommodation for unbearable mental as well as physical pain. But as this week’s Post seri...
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Barbara Kay: ‘Be it resolved we live in a misandric society’

  • November 20, 2013
Yesterday, November 19 was International Men’s Day, a fitting moment for the announcement that Canada’s first Canadian Centre for Men and Families (CCMF) will open next spring in To...
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Barbara Kay: For Republicans, Obamacare schadenfreude isn’t enough

  • November 20, 2013
Two scandals involving political leadership. Two ongoing media circuses. In both stories, the central figure falls from a grace that existed largely in the minds of those who elected him. ...
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Barbara Kay: Set Orthodox women free

  • November 13, 2013
New Jersey resident Gitel Dodelson is a 25-year old Orthodox Jewish woman and new mother. Recently separated from her husband of 10 months, she wrote candidly about her marriage breakdown in th...
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Barbara Kay: Ottawa fails veterans with cynical displays of show over substance

  • November 11, 2013
Normally, on Remembrance Day, my thoughts are with Canada’s fallen soldiers. This year, having just seen the documentary film, Broken Soldiers, I find myself brooding over war’s suf...
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Barbara Kay: Eyewitness to native lawlessness

  • November 6, 2013
North American progressives once believed non-violent protest was the noblest course of action for citizens when government failed to ensure the common good and safety of society. Until the 196...
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Barbara Kay: Banning hijabs won’t halt honour killings

  • November 4, 2013
Quebec’s Status of Women Committee has released a 167-page report that primarily addresses the disturbing phenomenon of honour killings of girls and women, 17 of which have been officiall...
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Barbara Kay: Second thoughts on surrogacy

  • November 1, 2013
An unidentified British couple will be travelling to Mumbai, India next March to pick up some valuable merchandise they ordered a while ago: their four biological newborn babies. The 30-s...
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