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A Canadian childhood Forty famous Canadians share their favourite memories

  • July 5, 2016
Until I was 10 and bundled off to overnight summer camp, I spent whole summers in Balfour Beach, a 50-family community near Keswick on the south end of Lake Simcoe, a relatively short commute for f...
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Barbara Kay: In BLM’s view to be white is to be racist and to be black is to be a victim

  • July 5, 2016
Don’t you just hate it when you invite the new folks next door to dinner so they can meet the neighbours, and then they arrive an hour late, after which they trash your cooking skills and...
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Barbara Kay: The indigenous tribes of Israel

  • June 28, 2016
Two stories this week turn on a misunderstanding of the word “indigenous.” On June 21, Conservative MP Jason Kenney tweeted: “On Aboriginal Day we honour those who first...
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New Haven pit bull attack

  • June 27, 2016
It was announced this month that both Montreal  and Quebec City intend to pass dangerous-dog legislation bills that have enraged pit bull advocates but will, in a victory for public-safety pro...
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Barbara Kay: Could Islamism be to blame for the Orlando attack? Perish the thought!

  • June 21, 2016
Last week, I was invited into a talk-radio forum on the Orlando massacre. It provided a good example for listeners of the competing interpretive narratives the mass killing has generated. ...
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Barbara Kay: Want to help society? Let kids know their fathers

  • June 14, 2016
Fathers Day — celebrated this Sunday — is rapidly becoming the most meaningless holiday of the year. Or, for too many kids, the saddest. U.S. government statistics t...
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Barbara Kay: There’s no argument. Pit bulls kill

  • June 11, 2016
Thursday the Montreal Gazette commissioned two responses to the fatal attack of a pit bull on a Montreal woman, which happened to occur just as the city is weighing the potential benefits of a ...
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Barbara Kay: Let’s not become Belgium when it comes to assisted suicide

  • June 7, 2016
In February, the archbishop of Edmonton announced that in the event of legalized euthanasia, physicians and other health-care workers of Covenant Health Hospital would not be participating in t...
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Barbara Kay: Absolutist dogma is chilling transgender research

  • May 31, 2016
Grayson Perry, a successful British potter, has from the age of 10 enjoyed dressing up as a woman. Perry’s “alter ego” Claire sometimes favours a Mrs. Thatcher persona, someti...
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Barbara Kay: A testimony to Canada’s human rights superstar

  • May 30, 2016
Is there a Nobel Peace Prize in the near future for former Liberal Justice Minister and human-rights luminary Irwin Cotler? There will be if fellow human-rights superstar Alan Dershowitz h...
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The Enemy Within the “Safe Spaces” of Jews on campus

  • May 27, 2016
Academia is awash in social justice warriors (SJW). There are SJW consumed with racism, gender and Islamophobia, but the issue that looms largest and most relentlessly on all campuses with a si...
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Barbara Kay: Montreal moratorium is bad news for horses and drivers

  • May 26, 2016
Montreal is a great tourist town, but our tourism season is relatively short as compared to other North American cities of similar size. So entrepreneurs invested in those five profitable month...
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Barbara Kay: The Dorchester Review — the little magazine that can

  • May 24, 2016
My heroes in the writing game are the contrarians who beat against cultural currents by publishing small magazines. These magazines boast rich content, but appeal to circumscribed markets. The ...
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Barbara Kay on preserving aboriginal languages: Cultural will cannot be outsourced

  • May 17, 2016
Over the weekend, the Globe and Mail published a cri du coeur by Adrienne Clarkson about the importance of language, titled All Canadians Must Tell Their Stories. The piece is stylistically ele...
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Barbara Kay: The case for subsidizing trains

  • May 11, 2016
Next year is Canada’s 150th anniversary. We need a project to mark the occasion that will do us proud in the future, but that speaks to our collective memory. Most nations are born ...
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Barbara Kay: At $317 million, Via Rail is cheap to maintain Canada’s rail heritage

  • May 5, 2016
Uh-oh. The federal auditor general’s office has just released a study casting a cloud, yet again, on the future of rail travel in Canada. The report indicates an increase in late-ar...
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Barbara Kay: Unborn babies will stay persons in fact, but not in law

  • May 3, 2016
In December 2014 Cassandra Kaake of Windsor, Ont., was murdered in her seventh month of pregnancy, and so her already-named unborn baby Molly died as well. To Casandra’s husband and mothe...
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Barbara Kay: When kidnapping is a risk, there are ways to prepare

  • April 27, 2016
What is a government’s proper response to extortion when a human life hangs in the balance? The answer seems obvious to everyone who has no personal stake in the outcome: Don’t pay;...
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Barbara Kay: On cleanliness, dignity and our obligation to the homeless

  • April 26, 2016
My mother-in-law, Maryka, was healthy and independent well into her 80s, but eventually short-term memory loss and general frailty set in. Maryka studiously ignored our gentle suggestion to con...
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Barbara Kay on her experience with Weight Watchers: Vanity has no cutoff date

  • April 19, 2016
The queue was longer than usual last Thursday, but we women — I have never seen a man in this particular lineup — waited patiently. Patiently, but an alert observer would note a com...
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