National character was on full display this week in Britain and France on the issue of self-presentation of women in public. In England Judge Peter Murphy ruled that a Muslim woman defendant co...
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A few months ago, I appeared on a French language talk show as part of a diverse panel of politicians, aesthetes and chattering-class types to give our two-cents’ worth on Quebec political is...
The University of Regina has installed two special washing stations for the religiously observant amongst the 800 Muslim students there, who are required to wash both hands and feet before pray...
In a perfect world, body size wouldn’t matter. We’d be attracted to people for their character alone. Alack and alas, our world is far from perfect. Ours is not a cover-up world eit...
Embarrassed by a “frosh week” gone awry, administrations and student governments at St. Mary’s University in Halifax (SMU) and the University of British Columbia (UBC) have been s...
Of all Canada’s political party leaders, Pauline Marois may well be Canada’s clumsiest communicator. Almost every pronouncement she makes about language and Quebec culture — littl...
When people are accused of a crime, they should be considered innocent until proven guilty. When proven guilty, they should be punished. If they have been falsely accused and their accusers acted i...
It’s been many years since anti-Semitic motifs — like cartoons showing money-obsessed Jews lusting after power — have been part of mainstream culture here in North America. Yet in...
Thanks to (literally) thick skin, a Calgary-resident beagle named Arlo will recover from a recentunprovoked attack by two neighbouring pit bulls. The vet bill for stitching up Arlo’s nec...
REAL Women of Canada, an activist group composed of socially conservative women (mainly evangelical Christians), has done admirable work in supporting traditional family values, standing up aga...
As the topic for its popular annual debate last May, the Oxford University Union proposed that “This House believes Islam is a religion of peace.”
Considering the venue &mdash...
Earlier this month my esteemed colleague at the National Post, George Jonas, wrote a reminiscent column about irascible dogs.
Dogs are a suitable topic for the dog days of summer, and &nd...
Typically for my generation, I married young and produced two children in my twenties. The fertility industry was then in its infancy; actual fertility specialists were rare medical birds.
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The headline reads, “Fewer rural doctors willing to perform abortions as health workers face increased hostility in small towns.” Without even reading the news account, I knew this ...
It’s because of people like me that the antiquarian book trade is in peril.
I’m a lifelong reader. During the Golden Age of used books – mainly paperbacks – from t...
Warning in a recent speech that access to online pornography was “corroding childhood,” British Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that Internet providers — who he sai...
Back in the day, there were comedies and tragedies, and never the twain met. In comedies, good-hearted heroes got into scrapes, but never died. They generally ended with love conquering all and...
As was widely reported last month, a media study has found that women in a wide spectrum of Western countries are significantly less knowledgeable than men about current affairs and politics. I...
In my baby-making era — we were all in our early or mid-twenties — I had a friend who told me one day that she planned on getting pregnant that night. The next day I asked, in ...
According to a woman friend of mine who is a collector of rare books, she is quite an anomaly in her trade. She estimates that 99% of used and rare book collectors are men.
In a finding s...