Dog behaviourist Ray Coppinger, a revered pioneer in the field of canine cognition, and a rugged outdoorsman whose dogs worked for their keep, has no use for wussy urbanites who treat dogs as f...
National Post
National Post
In the historical scheme of things, Israel’s summer war with Gaza was small potatoes. But western media, largely critical of Israel, made a banquet of it. And in the familiar way of most ...
It is probably a good thing that 66-year old UK judge, Mary Jane Mowat, has just retired from Oxford Crown Court. Her new status permits her to remain serenely indifferent to the torrent o...
by John Homans
Penguin USA, 375 Hudson St., New York, NY 10014), 2012.
Reviewed by Barbara Kay
Humans and dogs have travelled a long road togeth...
The ISIS terrorist that executed James Foley spoke to the world with a British accent. News reports tell us that his identity may soon be revealed. But we already know that British-born and raised ...
As the twig is bent, so grows the tree. In every religious faith, in every ideology, leaders know that the surest route to mass compliance and unshakable faith is through the children. Get &lsq...
A few months ago, bowing to pressure from the Canadian Bar Association, the federal government slammed the door shut on a private member’s bill advancing shared parenting as the default i...
I once sued a horse dealer for fraud. I had an excellent case, but my lawyer said I would make a “bad witness.” Shocked, I protested that I was unusually articulate. That, apparentl...
Even in distant Montreal, I can almost hear the great whoosh of relief emanating from Alberta’s Progressive Conservative party caucus at former Premier Alison Redford’s announ...
I grew up reading Archie comics in the 1950s. My kids read Archie comics in the 1970s. And now my grandchildren are reading Archie comics … from the 1970s. Once the Archie gang got polit...
In the past, television ad-makers rarely have dared make fun of moms. But dads usually have been seen as fair game for satirical commercials portraying fathers as immature slovens or domestic i...
A few years ago I took part in a charity event at which the evening’s entertainment was a comic debate, the resolution being, “The shorter man is the better man.” I was a...
Emma Teitel, a columnist of progressive views for Macleans magazine, recently walked into a north Toronto camping stores serving a largely Jewish clientele. There she saw something “that ...
Until a few decades ago, North America’s pit bull population was minuscule — mere hundreds of thousands, owned mostly by security-minded junkyard-dealer types who knew exactly ...
Yesterday, 13 Palestinian children from Gaza and the West Bank arrived at Israel’s Wolfson Medical Center in Holon (near Tel Aviv) to undergo life-saving heart operations. After thei...
In the spring, a young man’s fancy may lightly turn to thoughts of love, but in the summer, most Canadian men’s fancy usually turns to thoughts of barbecue, and what will be sizzlin...
My friend David, an evolving short-story writer, spends a week every summer at the Iowa Writers Workshop. Last year, one of his fellow students in a class taught by novelist Robert Anthony Sieg...
In the annals of Canadian crime, the sexually sadistic murderers Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka stand out for the extraordinary horror they evoked in the nation.
Time has not dimmed that...
The blow fell too late for a counter-punch. But that seems to have been the idea behind Pride Toronto’s arbitrary ejection of the Canadian Association of Equality (CAFÉ) from Sunda...
Quebec’s euthanasia law, Bill C-52, has now passed. My side lost that battle. Did we lose “fair and square” though? I personally felt that the rhetorical quality of public dis...