Barbara Kay columnist and writer focusing on political subjects

An Academic Mobbing at McGill

October 16, 2018

Editor’s note: More than 200 pages of supporting documents have been gathered by Professor Ibrahim for use in a defamation lawsuit he is engaged in against a student and a colleague. These docum...

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Andrew Scheer, the Media and our Society’s “decadent last phase”

August 31, 2018

In a scene from the film Casablanca that has retained instant recognition since 1942, bar owner Rick asks police captain Renault: “How can you close me up? On what grounds?” Renault responds: “I...

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Barbara Kay: A celebrated figure today could well be the condemned sinner of tomorrow

June 5, 2018

It was a happy day for the Winnipeg Pakistani community at the recent official opening of a park named for Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan in 1948. The ceremonies were presided over by...

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Barbara Kay: A few ‘toxic’ anti-male women are derailing the validity of #MeToo

October 17, 2018

According to a survey in the latest Economist magazine, the effect of the #MeToo movement has been to elevate Americans’ skepticism over sympathy for victims. Among other findings, the survey no...

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Barbara Kay: A gift for Israel’s birthday: a legal summary of its clear legitimacy

April 17, 2018

Israel’s 70th birthday will be celebrated Thursday. Note the passive voice. I would have preferred “the world will join in celebration of Israel’s 70th birthday,” but immedi...

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Barbara Kay: A new documentary gives ammunition to the sugar-is-deadly warriors

May 30, 2018

For decades, the low-fat diet has been to health and weight as Marxism to political governance: a catastrophic failure. People are fatter and sicker than ever. Why? Because lowering fat intake resu...

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Barbara Kay: A new report sounds the alarm on Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria

August 22, 2018

Imagine yourself the parent of an adolescent boy or (more likely) girl without a single previous sign of body dysphoria, who “out of the blue” decides she is transgender. She demands a ...

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Barbara Kay: Another cultural institution succumbs to Jordan Peterson hysteria

May 1, 2018

This Friday marks the 175th consecutive weekly “Free Raif Badawi” vigil in Sherbrooke, Quebec, where the imprisoned Saudi blogger’s family found asylum and have lived as permanent...

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Barbara Kay: Another school, another recording, another free-speech crisis

October 11, 2018

The old adage has it that “a picture is worth a 1,000 words.” But, as former Wilfrid Laurier University teaching assistant Lindsay Shepherd showed Canadians last November, in academia 1,00...

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Barbara Kay: B.C. school official protests ‘transgender education’ — and pays the price

January 24, 2018

Barry Neufeld, a long-time trustee of British Columbia’s Chilliwack School District, hadn’t planned to find himself at the centre of a legal battle, whose outcome could have far-reachin...

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Barbara Kay: Canada is better for having the Post — and far more interesting

October 27, 2018

The birth of the National Post 20 years ago had a profound impact on our national conversations about politics, the economy and our swiftly evolving culture. The Post was meant to be a journalistic di...

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Barbara Kay: Canada’s own little Stalins are making politically incorrect authors disappear

September 5, 2018

Stalin and his monstrous inner circle aren’t obvious fodder for humour, but the film The Death of Stalin is indeed hilarious, without sidestepping the horrors of that regime.Playing the role ...

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Barbara Kay: Canadians don’t need a ‘National Day’ scolding us for being Islamophobic

January 17, 2018

The federal government has been asked by the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) to declare Jan. 29, the first anniversary of a murderous attack on a Quebec mosque that left six dead and se...

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Barbara Kay: Collapse of basic fact-checking helps feed the fake-news narrative

February 21, 2018

Fake news is a big problem. Increasingly, serious citizens look to mainstream media for responsible reportage. When media betrays the public’s trust, it’s scary. And the media does fall...

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Barbara Kay: Delaware students can now choose their own race. This should end well

February 13, 2018

The state of Delaware is poised to adopt what is known as “Regulation 225.” Approved both by the Delaware State Education Association and Gov. John Carney, Regulation 225 would safeguar...

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Barbara Kay: Did #MeToo activists target a top Canadian prof for his blunt lessons about Islam?

October 20, 2018

McGill University, my grad school alma mater, has, in my opinion, acted dishonourably in a recent and unusual case of tenure denial to a brilliant and popular professor. When I learned of Ahmed Fekry...

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Barbara Kay: Diluting the meaning of ‘woman,’ to appease transgender activists, is misogyny

September 14, 2018

In his writings on totalitarianism, George Orwell powerfully exposed the link between the manipulation of language and the erosion of individual liberty. Ideologues understand that linguistic control ...

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Barbara Kay: Do none of these Edmonton ingrates realize how much fresh lemons cost?

November 19, 2018

The world is going to hell in a handbasket, as we know, but to preserve our sanity we must periodically step back from the sturm und drang of hard-core news, without entirely depriving ourselves of fo...

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Barbara Kay: Exploding the myth of cure-all female corporate boards

September 5, 2018

The Liberals are looking at an amendment to diversity-themed Bill C-25 that would force businesses to open their diversity policies to shareholders or explain why they don’t (“comply or ex...

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Barbara Kay: Fighting off the chill (no pun intended) against skeptical climate science

January 9, 2018

Baby, it was cold outside. I’ve felt grateful the past few weeks that I live in a draft-free house with a reliable furnace. Another reason for gratitude: the recent record-breaking low temper...

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