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Barbara Kay: Understanding the jihadi mind (I hope this column isn’t Islamophobic)

  • March 14, 2017
M-103 is a motion before Parliament that seeks to condemn (undefined) “Islamophobia” as a phenomenon distinct from hatred directed at individual members of all minorities. M-103 rests its case for...
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Barbara Kay: Actually, it turns out that you may be less racist than you’ve been led to believe

  • February 28, 2017
I had the pleasure, a few weeks ago, of attending a seminar at Ryerson University as a specially invited guest to hear University of Toronto psychology professor Jordan Peterson address a colleague’...
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Barbara Kay: Actually, one needn’t be a hysterical bigot to have concerns with M-103

  • February 21, 2017
I have serious concerns about M-103, a private member’s motion currently before Parliament that would condemn Islamophobia. But I want to reassure my colleague Andrew Coyne that I’m not nearly...
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Barbara Kay: Enter Milo Yiannopoulos, progressivism’s spawn and history’s pendulum in action

  • February 14, 2017
Freedom for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is an organization that defends freedom of speech for students and academics at American universities. They’ve tracked disinvitations and speech dis...
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Barbara Kay: Fascism in America? Sure, but not because of You Know Who

  • January 31, 2017
NDP leader Thomas Mulcair says Trump is a “fascist.” And so do countless others. Fair comment? No. It’s fair to say that all fascists are populists, but not all populists are fascists. When left...
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Barbara Kay: Betsy DeVos’ support of due process on campuses makes her an excellent pick for secretary of education

  • January 24, 2017
Barack Obama was the first president to make the advancement of feminist demands a priority. So the election of the sexist Trump has hit progressive women particularly hard. They fear that their hard-...
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Barbara Kay: For me, another 10 years or so sounds about right

  • January 17, 2017
There was a woman at our synagogue I knew superficially, a widow about 20 years older than me, a fine amateur artist. At long last liberated from onerous maternal and breadwinning obligations, her agi...
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Barbara Kay: U of T’s ‘antipsychiatry’ scholarship — and not believing in mental illness — is an attack on science

  • January 10, 2017
In November, the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), an all-graduate school at the University of Toronto, announced it had established a world first, a scholarship in the “field...
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Barbara Kay: It should have been obvious all along that Obama really favoured Arabs over Israel

  • January 3, 2017
Given Obama’s education, mentors and ideology, we should not really be shocked by his long-calculated decision to have the U.S. abstain from voting on UN Security Council Resolution 2334, ensuring i...
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Barbara Kay: Across North America, seeds of a religious rebound

  • December 20, 2016
My grandparents, immigrants from Poland and Romania, were Orthodox Jews and deeply observant. My parents, born here, joined a Conservative shul (mixed seating), and kept a traditionally Jewish ...
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Barbara Kay: One gay man’s lonely fight against Ontario’s new law banning ‘mother’ and ‘father’

  • December 14, 2016
LGBT rights and pro-pit-bull advocacy are niche passions for the Ontario NDP’s Cheri DiNovo. The latter cause was my introduction to the MPP. Today’s column is about the former, spe...
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Barbara Kay: Curb the chivalric impulse, women don’t need it

  • December 8, 2016
In a recent column, my colleague Colby Cosh took Conservative Party leadership candidate Kellie Leitch’s proposal that Canadians be allowed to carry chemical mace and pepper spray for sel...
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Barbara Kay: Driverless cars are coming — but what about the fight for the right to drive your own vehicle?

  • December 6, 2016
Since 1982, alcohol-related fatalities in the U.S. have come down 52 per cent overall, and 79 per cent for drivers under the age of 21. What should be cause for satisfaction, how...
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Barbara Kay: When reaching out to the Muslim community, choose your ambassadors carefully

  • November 29, 2016
Crime Prevention Ottawa (CPO) was founded in 2004 to develop strategies for enhancing community safety, addressing problems like violence against women, neighbourhood gangs, abuse of the disabl...
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Barbara Kay: A Marxist revolution by alt-left millennials?

  • November 23, 2016
In her post-election column, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan described the mood of Hillary supporters as one of “enraged mourning,” an excellent description for the emoti...
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Barbara Kay: The deplorables’ get their moment. Break out the pointed hoods

  • November 16, 2016
An old New Yorker cartoon sprang to mind in the days following the U.S. election. In it, rain pours down in sheets. Two frowning children inside a car parked roadside are peering out at their s...
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Barbara Kay: U.S. Democrats show they still haven’t learned a thing

  • November 15, 2016
Until president-elect Donald Trump named Reince Priebus, the Republican National Committee chairman, as his chief of staff, there was concern that the job might go to Stephen Bannon, chief exec...
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Barbara Kay: For gender Marxists, pronouns are the latest patch of hotly contested terrain in the revolution

  • November 8, 2016
A young conservative friend of mine was surprised to discover that my preferred honorific is “Ms.” He’d assumed that as a critic of feminism, where the title originated, I&rsq...
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Man’s worst friend

  • November 8, 2016
There are presently about 350,000 pit bulls in Canada. Until the 1980s there would have been almost none, since unlike the United States, with a population of about four million pit bulls today...
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Barbara Kay: Death at the Pumpkin

  • November 1, 2016
The winner of the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction will be announced in Toronto Wednesday. I would delight in seeing the award bestowed on Toronto-born Israeli journalist...
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