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Barbara Kay: There’s no safe space on campus to debate bathroom politics

  • March 6, 2018
Heather Brown, a third year Business student at Trent University, is no transphobe. She takes a live-and-let-live approach in gender matters.But Trent has instituted a policy of gender-neutral wash...
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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: The #MeToo court of public opinion needs some ground rules, fast

  • January 30, 2018
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s courtship of his wife, Chirlane McCray, has all the makings of a Hollywood romcom. They met in 1991 when she started working at New York City Hall. He — ...
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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: 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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Fighting off the chill (no pun intended) against skeptical climate science

  • January 16, 2018
Yes, the Earth is warming. How much and how fast is so far all hypothesis. It is therefore imperative that scientists be free to debate each other’s theories Baby, it was cold outside...
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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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Confessions of an underperforming grandmother … 'Regrets, I’ve had a few'

  • January 6, 2018
I’m at the age (considered significant if you believe Hallmark) where, when I hear Sinatra singing, “Regrets, I’ve had a few …”, I feel myself nodding where I use...
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Barbara Kay: Confessions of an underperforming grandmother … ‘Regrets, I’ve had a few’

  • December 29, 2017
I’m at the age (considered significant if you believe Hallmark) where, when I hear Sinatra singing, “Regrets, I’ve had a few …”, I feel myself nodding where I used only t...
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A sadly necessary handbook for men falsely accused of sexual assault

  • December 21, 2017
It is a sad commentary on our culture that few people care what happens to men falsely charged with sex crimes   Liam Allan, a 22-year old London, England-area criminology student, spe...
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Parents face scorn for worrying about letting their children change genders

  • December 21, 2017
The “identity model” of working with transgender people stipulates that it is wrong to question someone's self-determined identity. The mental health model looks at the underlying c...
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Barbara Kay: A sadly necessary handbook for men falsely accused of sexual assault

  • December 19, 2017
Liam Allan, a 22-year old London, England-area criminology student, spent two years “in a terrible form of limbo” when he was charged with 12 counts of rape, based on allegations by a w...
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Barbara Kay: Parents face scorn for worrying about letting their children change genders

  • December 13, 2017
In a December 7th article, sexologists J. Michael Bailey and Ray Blanchard, unafraid of taking on difficult topics, describe three basic types of gender dysphoria (which is when someone feels they&...
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Germany was determined to expunge dangerous anti-Semitism. Now it's back

  • December 7, 2017
Bad things that are tips of bad icebergs shouldn’t happen to good people. But if they must, it’s as well they happen to people with influence to command respectful attention. ...
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Barbara Kay: Germany was determined to expunge dangerous anti-Semitism. Now it’s back

  • December 6, 2017
Bad things that are tips of bad icebergs shouldn’t happen to good people. But if they must, it’s as well they happen to people with influence to command respectful attention.Gordon Wass...
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Barbara Kay: Campus free speech advocates owe pro-life students their help

  • November 28, 2017
Amidst the deluge of Twitter postings around the Lindsay Shepherd affair at Wilfrid Laurier University, a Nov. 23 tweet struck me for its hutzpah: “In all of the media frenzy over #LindsayShe...
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Barbara Kay: Let’s hope Canadian courts see the true meaning of the niqab

  • November 15, 2017
As was widely anticipated, Quebec’s Bill 62, banning face cover in the realm of public services, will be legally contested: by an individual niqab-wearing woman, supported by the CCLA and the...
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Barbara Kay: The Jewish blindspot to the horrors of the niqab

  • October 31, 2017
Sir Salman Rushdie spoke at Montreal’s Jewish Public Library last week. We were two of an estimated 700-strong (mostly Jewish) audience. Rushdie’s insightful and entertaining address on...
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Barbara Kay: Honouring Lord Balfour, who made Israel possible

  • October 24, 2017
This coming November 2nd marks the centenary of the Balfour Declaration, which with its portentous words, “His Majesty’s government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a nati...
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