The issues that preoccupy the politically engaged in other provinces — the economy, infrastructure, public services — are incidental beside the only question that seems to matter to...
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My Russian mother-in-law, Maryka, never lived in Russia — she was born in Odessa, spent decades in China, and came post-war to Canada — but culturally speaking, she was and remained...
By their attitude to Woody Allen and his alleged molestation of his adopted daughter Dylan as a child shall ye know them. The battle lines have been drawn. On one side, we have those with no pe...
During his first presidential campaign, Barack Obama spoke publicly about fatherlessness in black communities. “[Black men] have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead...
My grandchildren like to put on “shows” for the grown-ups when they are all together. I’m afraid they are rather lame, as the grandchildren with actual talent are too shy to s...
The late Mary Daly, a militant feminist, was a long-time academic at Jesuit-run Boston College. She was a revered icon in the feminist movement, but largely unknown to the general public until,...
If you visit St. Petersburg and tour some of the tsarist palaces therein, you may, like me a few years ago, experience conflicting responses: wonderment at the opulence and scale of the palaces...
It’s happening again. Yet another Canadian university is making life extremely difficult for a group that brings awareness of men’s issues to institutions of higher learning.
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Cultural observer Joseph Epstein wrote a wonderful satirical column in the Wall Street Journal a few weeks about the “Good Intentions Paving Company,” a riff on the old cliché...
It is no crime in Canada for adults to sell sexual services to other adults. Nobody disputes that.
However, what has long been problematic are prostitution’s several core related cr...
In Los Angeles tonight family, friends and admirers will celebrate the 75th birthday of David Horowitz, the most formidable scourge of the American left since Whittaker Chambers.
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In 2009 lesbian Jennifer Schreiner bore a baby girl with the aid of sperm from a certain William Marotta. In 2012 the Kansas Department for Children and Families sought to have Marotta declared the fa...
It’s not often that we Canadians get to see a show trial in progress. But we’re watching one now — namely, the public hearings on the Quebec government’s proposed Bill 6...
It’s award season in Hollywood, that time of year when one’s thoughts turn to American films and the cultural messages they convey.
Three 2013 film hits, all featuring quintes...
U.S. writer Gary Shteyngart’s latest book is a memoir called “Little Failure.” But the title speaks to what the writer felt as an immigrant child, not to the roaring success h...
In his response to a boycott resolution endorsed by the 5,000-member American Studies Association (ASA) against Israel’s institutes of higher learning, Alan Dershowitz recalled a notoriou...
I recently threw a holiday party for some of my colleagues in journalism, including some young up-and-comers. Among them was a couple I’ve known for some years now, who happily informed m...
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that offences to the Criminal Code around prostitution are unconstitutional, reversing a 1990 SCC ruling stating that elimination of prostitution through l...
In a just-published book, Defending Battered Women on Trial, University of Ottawa law professor Elizabeth Sheehy argues that chronically battered women should have a “statutory escap...
I felt sympathy for federal minister for industry James Moore the other day, when he uttered those fateful words to a Vancouver radio reporter: “Is it my job to feed my neighbour&rsq...