MP Maurice Vellacott’s child-custody reform proposal, Bill C-560, is coming up for second reading on May 7. The private member’s bill aims to reduce incentives for family-law litiga...
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On Sunday, “Cali,”an Ottawa toddler, was rushed to hospital after being mauled by a dog. The Ottawa Paramedic Service described the wounds as “multiple, severe lacerations to the ...
While perusing my morning newspaper today, I was surprised to learn, from an article about the findings of a newly published study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, that I am a...
I have no childhood recollection of being escorted by a parent to or from the public school that was a short walk from our Toronto home. I only remember walking with my sister, with other kids,...
It was called “the trial that never ends.” A custody battle, in which the London-Middlesex Children’s Aid Society (CAS) became the cynosure of a London court’s ire, took...
When his father spontaneously uttered the f-word in the House of Commons many years ago, it was considered too shocking to be repeated in the media and was sanitized as “fuddle duddle.&rd...
At a 2014 Annual General Meeting (AGM) last week, Ryerson University’s student union joined a number of other provincial student unions — 10, according to organizers — in voti...
Nobody expected Pauline Marois to keep her job as PQ leader after the monumental defeat she presided over on April 7, but it seemed a bit rich for three leadership contenders to be auditioning ...
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is one of the bravest women on the planet. To anyone who cares about women’s rights in patriarchal cultures, she needs no introduction.
But to recap, Ali was raised ...
I was asked for an election prediction in a media interview Monday afternoon. Based solely on an intuition that francophone Quebecers were in a punitive mood after being treated as dummies for ...
I was pleased to read the April 2 op-ed by Zainab Bint Younus in the National Post, “Don’t speak for Muslim women. Speak to us,” written in response to a preceding column by J...
I’m the early bird in my household and get to the newspapers first. Every day my husband comes downstairs with the same question on his lips: “Any new polls?” He’s nervo...
This column was drawn from opening remarks presented at a March 27 Macdonald-Laurier Institute debate in Ottawa, on the resolution: “Free speech in Canadian Universities is an endangered ...
The documentary film “Honor Diaries” was previewed in Chicago in October, but this month marked its global release. Its Canadian premier took place in Ottawa on Monday to a full hou...
The CBC’s Jian Ghomeshi is the most amiable, open-minded guy in the world, with a good sense of humour to boot. The perfect radio host. His weekly show, Q, frequently provides proof ...
Given the timing, with a provincial election campaign in progress, and months of tension surrounding the PQ’s proposed Charter of Values that would ban religious accessories in public ins...
In 1999, an exhaustively researched Joint House-Senate committee report, entitled “For the Sake of the Children,” offered recommendations whose spirit is encapsulated in Bill C-560,...
In democratic countries, tribalism cloaked as a respectable political party can’t hope to bend the population to its will by reason. The only way tribal leaders can get themselves voted i...
David Mitrovica, 56, is a white, able-bodied man (yes, this is a gender column) who in 2013, after many productive years in Alberta, resettled in Toronto in order to care for his aged mother.
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In today’s edition of the Post, there is a very thoughtful and serious discussion of whether the phenomena of “rape culture” even exists. It will no doubt receive the usual st...