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...
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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...
Earlier this year, the Supreme Court of Canada stayed proceedings against Nicole Doucet, who sought to hire at least one hit-man to kill her then-husband, Mike Ryan. Eight of the nine Just...
Norman Podhoretz, former editor of Commentary Magazine and intellectual doyen of the neo-conservative movement in the U.S., took the civil rights movement to task for what he perceived as its explo...
The other day my five-year old granddaughter’s friend asked her why she plays so much soccer. I expected to hear, “Because it’s fun!” Instead, my granddaughter said, &ld...
Toronto’s Pride parade began as a strategy in attracting widespread popular support, in a time-honoured, peaceful, way, for gay rights — not only in Canada, but everywhere. As time ...
Tennis champion Serena Williams is one tough cookie, and she has on her when she’s angry what my mother would have called a “mouth.” I am thinking of the time at the 2009 U.S....
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When I was young, our ...
Beloved actor Mary Tyler Moore, 76, long afflicted with diabetes and its complications, is in seclusion at home after hospitalization for two medical crises — bone fractures from a f...
In alarmed response to emerging “men’s rights awareness” groups (MRA) on a number of Canadian campuses, the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), a union body representing so...
Two of my favourite writers have published a book of e-mail correspondence: Distant Intimacy: A friendship in the age of the Internet.
Joseph Epstein is America’s finest essayist an...
When fears about Mormon Fundamentalists taking child brides sparked the British Columbia government to ask for judicial clarity on Canada’s criminal law against polygamy, a group of people in...
Who’d want Christie Blatchford’s journalism beat?
Blatchford reports on court cases springing from the most pitiful and depraved corners of the human animal in extremis...
Michelle Allaby spent Thursday night carrying a stack of paper door-to-door in her Dartmouth, N.S., neighbourhood. She and two other mothers have amassed more than 350 signatures in protest of what...
Universities must be careful in the awarding of honorary doctorates. What seems like a safe choice at the time can come back to haunt a university later. Sometimes even five minutes later.
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The great Victorian novelist Charles Dickens was doubly traumatized in early youth by a feckless father and a harsh social system with scant appreciation for children’s tender psyches.
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Today, May 22, is the 200th birthday of famed composer Richard Wagner — so his native Germany is awash in concerts, lectures and recordings to celebrate the Jubiläumsjahr (Jubilee Year)....
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