I have five granddaughters. The older ones can read, and my oldest, though pre-adolescent, actually scans the newspapers at times. Even if she didn’t, how could she fail to be aware by osmosis alone...
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In her 28 October Maclean’s column, Emma Teitel tackles gendered perceptions of suffering. She believes the public is kinder to men who are afflicted with the demons of depression o...
It’s like a volcano. The rumbles go on for weeks, months, even years. But when the volcano finally erupts, the lava flow is surprisingly swift and can mean sudden death for anyone in its ...
According to Eizabeth Kübler-Ross’s famous thesis, the moribund experience five cognitive stages from the moment they learn they are dying to death itself. On Sunday, I came to under...
It’s not often that my daughter pleads with me to write something about some or other cultural phenomenon. But this week she sent me a Youtube video, and told me I had to write about...
Two men died in Ottawa on Wednesday. One was evil and guilty. One was good and innocent. The hearts of all Canadians go out to the parents of the victim, reservist Nathan Cirillo. Including the...
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...
By any standard, 14-year old Gracie Attard, an English girl from the tiny Maltese island of Gozo, is an extraordinary child: bright, charming, poised, with ambitions for a career in medicine. She has ...
Writer Douglas Anthony Cooper and I share common ground as Canadian journalists. Neither of us have any personal experience with pit bull type dogs, yet we both write about them -- both frequently ...
So far the issue of assisted suicide has been framed in polar terms. You’re for it or you’re against it. It’s a human right or it isn’t a human right. It’s a sin o...
Institutions charged with the safety of the people to whom they provide services used to confine themselves to combatting known evils that had proven consequences. In the past decades, we&rsquo...
When a child is critically ill, who has the final word on treatment – both the “if” and the “what” regarding treatment – when doctors and parents disagree? I...
Up until the recent revelations that Rob Ford was battling a life-threatening illness, many of us outside Toronto considered that city’s mayor, along with his pugnacious brother Doug, at ...
News analysis by Barbara Kay
The news cycle of the last two weeks has turned up two remarkable pit bull-related stories in North America, both worthy of editorial mastication, so to speak. Ther...
Happy 50th birthday to the Free Speech Movement.
Those of us who were young adults at the time well remember the galvanizing effect on students everywhere of those culturally game-changin...
Well, here we go again. Another controversial plan for assisted suicide – not surprisingly in Belgium, as so often in the past – and a first for a couple seeking an exit from life t...
We opinion columnists all have our little foibles. One of mine, I am a bit ashamed to admit, is occasionally rising to the bait when the thestar.com’s Heather Mallick writes a particularl...
On Scotland’s referendum day last week, observers from Spain’s northeastern secessionist region of Catalonia, Italy’s German-speaking Sud-Tirol (seeking reunion with Austria),...
In Quebec, “values” is a loaded term. Last year, the Parti Québécois bought into the assumption that a crackdown on hijabs and yarmulkes and other outward signs of rel...
This is a story of chickens coming home to roost in the nicest possible way.
In the early 1980s, I founded and edited an annual anthology of creative writing by Montreal and area high sch...