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...
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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...
The British Columbia Supreme Court has ruled that the cancellation of a prison’s “Mother Baby Program,” which allowed female inmates to serve time with their babies, violated ...
When ideology takes up the brain space normally reserved for reason and the golden principle of equality under the law, the very best minds can go AWOL.
That seems to be the case with Uni...
One in 10 new cancers worldwide is a female breast cancer. And North American rates of breast cancer are the highest in the world.
While there is no magic bullet assuring prevention, epid...
A year ago 19-year old Preston King was a light-hearted young Southern California man in love with his high school sweetheart. Her pregnancy changed their lives dramatically. But, even though t...
Sixteen months ago, three McGill University Redmen football players were charged with sexual assault of a former Concordia student whom they met in a Montreal bar. The incident was described, i...
Quebec’s advocates for legalized euthanasia approve of Belgium’s system, which makes accommodation for unbearable mental as well as physical pain. But as this week’s Post seri...
Yesterday, November 19 was International Men’s Day, a fitting moment for the announcement that Canada’s first Canadian Centre for Men and Families (CCMF) will open next spring in To...
Two scandals involving political leadership. Two ongoing media circuses. In both stories, the central figure falls from a grace that existed largely in the minds of those who elected him.
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New Jersey resident Gitel Dodelson is a 25-year old Orthodox Jewish woman and new mother. Recently separated from her husband of 10 months, she wrote candidly about her marriage breakdown in th...
Normally, on Remembrance Day, my thoughts are with Canada’s fallen soldiers. This year, having just seen the documentary film, Broken Soldiers, I find myself brooding over war’s suf...
North American progressives once believed non-violent protest was the noblest course of action for citizens when government failed to ensure the common good and safety of society. Until the 196...
Quebec’s Status of Women Committee has released a 167-page report that primarily addresses the disturbing phenomenon of honour killings of girls and women, 17 of which have been officiall...
An unidentified British couple will be travelling to Mumbai, India next March to pick up some valuable merchandise they ordered a while ago: their four biological newborn babies.
The 30-s...
Death has always preoccupied me. The same questions arise, unbidden, sometimes several times a day: When, where, how will I die? I’m not made gloomy by this tic. It keeps my ego in check....
Now that I’m losing it — my once excellent memory, that is — my brain sometimes lets me down at social events.
Last week, at a Toronto book launch, a woman my age approa...
No one in government can use ignorance as an excuse for tolerating Canada’s dysfunctional legal system: Several recent reports have laid the problem bare.
Last April, the federal governme...