On December 21, 2005, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled (with two vigorous dissents) that for-profit sex clubs could operate legally without regard for community standards of decency, on the grounds t...
[](/sites/default/files/uploads/2013/10/2011_Kay_B_Photo_Original.jpg)My favorite Canadian newspaper is the National Post, and my favorite thing about the National Post is a lady named ...
You know the old expression “You will never go broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people?” May I amend that? Please remove the word “American” and substitute the word “Ca...
The other day my five-year old granddaughter’s friend asked her why she plays so much soccer. I expected to hear, “Because it’s fun!” Instead, my granddaughter said, &ld...
As we all know, there is no limit to human depravity. Not only are there human beings who rape for pleasure, torture for pleasure and kill for pleasure, there are people – deserving of an inner ...
In a breathless announcement from the Toronto Star, we learn today that Ontario is “on the brink” of having a woman as premier “for the first time in history”!! In early ret...
Now that I’m losing it — my once excellent memory, that is — my brain sometimes lets me down at social events.
Last week, at a Toronto book launch, a woman my age approa...
More than half the city of Richmond in B.C. is of Chinese descent. Commercially this has translated into numerous enterprises whose sometimes large signage is in Chinese only. This situation irks a nu...
A group of influential Canadian women who are rushing shoulder to shoulder into the cultural breach to remind us that that in our country’s national anthem, someone had blundered! Our ant...
Since 1984, Montreal has practised a policy of “parking tolerance” on Jewish high holidays, waiving restrictions on street parking for a few blocks around synagogues. The gesture allows...
When people are accused of a crime, they should be considered innocent until proven guilty. When proven guilty, they should be punished. If they have been falsely accused and their accusers acted i...
In my baby-making era — we were all in our early or mid-twenties — I had a friend who told me one day that she planned on getting pregnant that night. The next day I asked, in ...
A notorious West Philadelphia abortion provider has come to trial on charges of killing one woman (3rd degree murder) by an overdose of anaesthetic and seven babies allegedly born alive in illegal ...
The University of Regina has installed two special washing stations for the religiously observant amongst the 800 Muslim students there, who are required to wash both hands and feet before pray...
The following are excerpts from a Feb. 7 speech to the upper grades of Hawthorn School for Girls, a private Toronto Catholic K-12 school serving both Catholic and non-Catholic students, that stresses ...
Pauline Phillips, better known as the famous long-running advice columnist, Abigail Van Buren – “Dear Abby”- has died at the age of 94 in Minneapolis.
For decades Paulin...
Abortion is legal in Canada. Yeah, we get that. Hear it a lot. A lot. So is driving a car. But driving is a regulated activity, and so far none of the many driving regulations that help to save liv...
On April 11, Progressive Conservatives and NDP members of the Ontario Legislature joined forces (with one Liberal) to pass the second reading of Bill 42, an act that would allow the province&rs...
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...
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...