Global anti-Semitism is on the rise. Ground zero for the propagation of anti-Semitism is the university. On campuses everywhere, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) movement is allegedly dir...
Emma Teitel, a columnist of progressive views for Macleans magazine, recently walked into a north Toronto camping stores serving a largely Jewish clientele. There she saw something “that ...
The CBC’s Jian Ghomeshi is the most amiable, open-minded guy in the world, with a good sense of humour to boot. The perfect radio host. His weekly show, Q, frequently provides proof ...
In 1973, U.S. Vice-President Spiro Agnew spoke at Drexel University’s graduation ceremonies. Left-wing students hated what he stood for, but assumed his right to speak. But in 2014, the h...
In Los Angeles tonight family, friends and admirers will celebrate the 75th birthday of David Horowitz, the most formidable scourge of the American left since Whittaker Chambers. Horowitz...
I do not love buying gifts. That’s an understatement. Shopping for others brings on a feeling of creeping paralysis that is quite unsettling. Department stores are the worst. It seems tha...
David Mitrovica, 56, is a white, able-bodied man (yes, this is a gender column) who in 2013, after many productive years in Alberta, resettled in Toronto in order to care for his aged mother. ...
In 1999, an exhaustively researched Joint House-Senate committee report, entitled “For the Sake of the Children,” offered recommendations whose spirit is encapsulated in Bill C-560,...
In the historical scheme of things, Israel’s summer war with Gaza was small potatoes. But western media, largely critical of Israel, made a banquet of it. And in the familiar way of most ...
The blow fell too late for a counter-punch. But that seems to have been the idea behind Pride Toronto’s arbitrary ejection of the Canadian Association of Equality (CAFÉ) from Sunda...
A four-year old Calgary boy is in hospital today with “some serious lacerations to the upper torso” following an attack by a “dog” as the Calgary Herald had it in their ...
Comfort and palliative care should be available to anyone for whom death is an approaching certainty, especially when technological intervention and sustenance is not only futile, but a source ...
I once sued a horse dealer for fraud. I had an excellent case, but my lawyer said I would make a “bad witness.” Shocked, I protested that I was unusually articulate. That, apparentl...
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is one of the bravest women on the planet. To anyone who cares about women’s rights in patriarchal cultures, she needs no introduction. But to recap, Ali was raised ...
In the spring, a young man’s fancy may lightly turn to thoughts of love, but in the summer, most Canadian men’s fancy usually turns to thoughts of barbecue, and what will be sizzlin...
With polls pointing to a very close vote in Scotland’s referendum on independence, some Canadian pundits are nervously contemplating the effect on Quebec nationalism if the Yes side shoul...
It was called “the trial that never ends.” A custody battle, in which the London-Middlesex Children’s Aid Society (CAS) became the cynosure of a London court’s ire, took...
On the multiculturalist front, there was no dearth of news and opinionating this week. One news item deserves mention simply because the attached opinion was so breathtakingly wrong, a pr...
“There’s nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as messing about in boats.” So said Rat, in one of the most often-quoted lines from Wind in the Wi...
The escape Monday of 32 teenagers from the Woodland Hills Youth Development Center, in Tennessee brought the facility under scrutiny, and not for the first time. Last May, a half doze...