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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Pit bull lobby put on its heels by Quebec’s dangerous dog bill, CBC documentary

  • September 5, 2018
In April, the Quebec government introduced Bill 128, which will authorize the province to prohibit any person from owning, breeding or acquiring “potentially dangerous” dogs, which include...
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Barbara Kay: Weinstein worst example of common problem in film industry

  • September 5, 2018
I lunched last weekend with friends, both in the film business, one a successful documentarian, the other a producer. Naturally, the tsunami of sexual assault charges unleashed by the Harvey Weinstein...
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Barbara Kay: We are ignoring a key part of ‘dying with dignity’

  • September 5, 2018
Ing Wong-Ward is disabled, dependent on a wheelchair and afflicted with colon cancer, accompanied, for the past year, by a stubbornly persistent abdominal abscess. This seems a depressing scenario,...
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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: The Yazidis are in danger of extinction and Ottawa’s stopped helping

  • September 5, 2018
I’ll call her “Nada,” not her real name.Nada is a Yazidi woman from Sinjar, Iraq, now age 31. On Aug. 3, 2014, ISIL came for her people. The Kurdish Peshmerga, tasked with protect...
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Barbara Kay: Gender studies don’t help us understand how dogs behave

  • September 5, 2018
For the “dog days” of summer, a column about dogs and their social life.Last year, a certain Helen Wilson, claiming to hold a “doctorate in feminist studies” submitted a pap...
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Barbara Kay: WLU’s contemptible conduct proof of intellectual assault underway on campuses

  • September 5, 2018
The story of Wilfrid Laurier University grad student and teaching assistant Lindsay Shepherd — who was recently subjected to a creepy, but instructive, grilling by campus superiors over material...
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Barbara Kay: Trump, Trudeau and the front lines of the fight against bull

  • September 5, 2018
American commentator Joseph Epstein once described himself, vocationally speaking, as “standing off on the sidelines, viewing the various public escapades — political, cultural, social &md...
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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: If ideologues are teaching our judges, the public has a need to know

  • September 5, 2018
Legal academics are openly reinterpreting their mission. Historically teachers of legal principles and law codes, they now see themselves as social-justice warriors called upon to right historical wro...
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Barbara Kay: If writing off 2019 gets us a real conservative party, so be it

  • August 28, 2018
Rub a dub dub, three men in a tub: Trudeau and Scheer fight for the oars, while a smiling Bernier rocks the boat.Did Bernier walk away from the CPC or was he pushed? Whatever, a poll immediately fol...
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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: It’s time to bring some order, and safety, back to our classrooms

  • July 24, 2018
The term “tough love” was not yet in usage when I was in high school, but it was the prevailing attitude in terms of discipline. Chronic disruptors were expelled. Teachers had real auth...
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Barbara Kay: For the first time, Israel is the world’s most Jewish country — this is a game-changer

  • July 17, 2018
The announcement was not unexpected. On the contrary, for those who follow the subject, it was long anticipated. But the words themselves, spoken by Israel’s Immigration Minister, Sofa Landve...
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Barbara Kay: One woman’s journey from social-justice warrior to free-speech champion

  • July 10, 2018
When my son’s family took up residency in Toronto’s Riverdale neighbourhood, previously unknown to me, I discovered a continually gentrifying urban paradise, rich in cultural diversity....
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