Barbara Kay columnist and writer focusing on political subjects

Barbara Kay: The TDSB steps on another politically correct landmine

October 17, 2017

Out of desperation to claim title as the most politically correct institution in Canada, the Toronto District School Board has made itself a target for mockery twice in the last month. Last week, t...

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Barbara Kay: Liberals left reeling by clear, rational criticisms of M-103

October 4, 2017

With Parliament’s passage in late March of Motion 103, which condemned “Islamophobia and all forms of systemic racism and religious discrimination,” the Canadian Heritage...

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Barbara Kay: Boycott Roger Waters, rock legend and rabid Israel hater

September 26, 2017

Art and political activism make awkward bedfellows. They become unethical bedfellows when activist artists bully politically neutral colleagues into complicity with their cause. ...

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Barbara Kay: This could destroy our civilization, but we don’t talk about it

September 20, 2017

Menace of war is the “hermit kingdom’s” stock in trade. For the first time, two weeks ago, North Korea threatened an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack on North America that could...

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An old truth packaged in a new study: fat is good for you

September 12, 2017

Humans die quickly if utterly deprived of fat. A high-fat, carb-free life produces lean, fit bodies Healthy eating and weight management are both obsessions in my family. There are no food regi...

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Barbara Kay: Quebec’s niqab ban is progressive. The NDP apparently isn’t

August 29, 2017

In their Sunday night French-language debate in Montreal, four NDP leadership aspirants gingerly navigated the minefield of Quebec’s Bill 62, nearing enactment, which will ban face ...

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Barbara Kay: France finally admits to its history of Jew hatred. What about the present?

July 25, 2017

July 16 marked the 75th anniversary of the infamous 1942 mass roundup of French Jews in Paris’s Velodrome d’Hiver (“Vel d’Hiv”), when 13,152 Jews were deported to...

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Barbara Kay: Misandrist mother sure to damage her vulnerable sons

July 18, 2017

Last week, motivated by a sense of duty, I took my nine-year old granddaughter to the film Despicable Me 3, my first exposure to this popular series. It turned out to be no chore at all; I laughed ...

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Barbara Kay: Bring on the sex robots and make our world a better place

July 12, 2017

In the case of controversial sex bots, which seem to me a victimless fetish, I find myself remarkably unoffended, even somewhat boosterish at their potential for alleviating human distress ...

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Barbara Kay: Doctors who conscientiously object to providing euthanasia referrals should not be forced to do so

June 21, 2017

Conscientious objectors shouldn't be shunned for merely holding to the originalist criterion of their vocation. From June 12 to 15, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice heard legal arg...

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The West's willful blindness to the threat of Islamist terrorism knows no bounds

June 20, 2017

In January 2016, a 24-year-old woman in Mannheim, Germany was reportedly raped by three migrants. At first, she identified them to police as German nationals, later explaining her lie as reluctance...

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Barbara Kay: Kathy Griffin just learned a tough lesson about free speech — sometimes, people tell you you’re fired

June 7, 2017

Pity naive comedian Kathy Griffin. She discovered, to her cost, there are limits to tolerance for edgy humour, even amongst the entertainment world’s most irreverent, Trump-loathing denizens. In a n...

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Barbara Kay: Scheer should ensure fathers have the same parenting rights as mothers in child custody disputes

May 31, 2017

My success rate for failed predictions remains unsullied. Just as I confidently predicted Donald Trump would never win the primaries, and then just as confidently predicted he would never win the pres...

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Barbara Kay: Congratulations, Mr. Scheer. Might I suggest that equal shared parenting be one of your key policy planks?

May 31, 2017

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Barbara Kay: A lone academic dares to challenge accepted narratives about Canada’s residential school system

May 23, 2017

As the token conservative on otherwise liberal panels, I have been a regular contributor to CBC radio’s comedy news trivia program, Because News, since September 2016. I was let go from this panel l...

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Barbara Kay: Why does a report on ‘gender equality’ in mental health all but ignore the illnesses of men and boys?

May 16, 2017

In a column last March, I described the radical progressive mind’s inability to see iniquities on the left and its fixation with right-wing evil as the ideological equivalent of a neurological syndr...

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Barbara Kay: Why does a report on ‘gender equity’ in mental health all but ignore the illnesses of men and boys?

May 16, 2017

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Barbara Kay: In landlord vs. religious Muslim couple, no one won. Everyone lost

May 9, 2017

Years ago, my then-lawyer son was seeking affordable lodging in Manhattan. He discovered many landlords wouldn’t rent to lawyers: too quick to litigate small grievances. This was a permitted form of...

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Barbara Kay: The problem with Handmaid’s Tale is that it’s not a believable dystopia. It’s sci-fi

May 2, 2017

The current Hulu remake of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, is getting rave reviews. But I passed on it. Handmaids projects a Christian theocracy — the Republic of Gilead — t...

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Barbara Kay: When pointing to CBC’s anti-Israel bias, there are plenty of examples

April 25, 2017

Marwan Barghouti is a bad man, which is why he’s 15 years into a 40-year prison sentence. He’s also a charismatic political activist. In its April 16 Sunday edition, The New York Times ...

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