A Pew Research report overturned public perception this week, when it reported that gun violence overall has been declining in the U.S. for two decades. In spite of a dramatic rise in actual gu...
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The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that a woman accused of hiding her dead baby in a plastic bag must once again stand trial.
In a unanimous 7-0 decision Friday, the Supreme Court upheld an ...
Leftist ideologies so dominate the humanities on Western campuses that academia is perceived as a liberal vocation, with conservative scholars a lonely minority.
Who but a liberal grad st...
Last week, on the eve of becoming homeless as his house passed into its new owner’s hands, Earl Silverman of northeast Calgary hanged himself in his garage.
Silverman briefly hit th...
On April 11, Progressive Conservatives and NDP members of the Ontario Legislature joined forces (with one Liberal) to pass the second reading of Bill 42, an act that would allow the province&rs...
Like father, like son.
Or not — as in the case of Pierre and Justin Trudeau. At least not when it comes to terrorism.
The Boston Marathon bombing is the kind of tragedy, touch...
Even if you don’t speak French, you should learn the expression “risée du monde” (RDM). That means “international laughingstock” and that is rapidly what Qu...
Last week, an anonymous male Toronto college student male created a Facebook page in which he described a sexual adventure with a girl so drunk “she could barely walk.” The narrator...
One of my perks as a newspaper columnist is the opportunity to connect with Canadians via radio and TV. I’m a natural ham, so I get a fair amount of air time. It’s all fun and value...
Quite a lot of printer’s ink has been consumed in the last few months on the iniquities inherent in Quebec’s proposed Bill 14, a substantial revision of Bill 101, Quebec’s 197...
Only in our time could a man in Roger Ebert’s condition have made it to the age of 70. I was very sorry to learn of the legendary film critic’s death, because for normal people, 70 now seems quite...
Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin has commissioned a report aimed at overhauling Canada’s family-law system. Its recommendations, which will be officially released later this...
Twitter can be addictive. Particularly enticing are cryptic little phrases or words that point to a story that may or may not be interesting. Yesterday I was intrigued by a retweet of: “Beef strogan...
A 2011 Environics poll found that 92% of respondents opposed sex-selective abortion on moral grounds, and a January 2012 Angus Reid poll found about two-thirds of respondents (about half of the...
One of my most vivid teenage memories has me seated with my sisters and parents at the dinner table in the mid-1950s. We were calmly discussing the pros and cons of building a well-stocked bomb...
In my day, it was well understood (and true) that the best place to snap up excellent husband material was at university.
So it mattered that I went to university, but it didn’t mat...
The first slow-germinating seed of my late-life career as a columnist was planted by a daily newspaper column I glommed onto during my teen years. I’m a bit embarrassed to reveal this columnist’s ...
Twenty years ago Earl Silverman of Calgary, fleeing his home to escape violence from his abusive wife, had no refuge to take shelter in. There were plenty of shelters for women victims of domestic ...
The U.S. Supreme Court began yesterday, and continues today, hearing arguments for and against overturning California’s voter-passed gay marriage ban. In France too, the gay marriage debate r...
Thanks to Bill 101, Quebec’s 1977 Charter of the French language, no language in the world is as regulated as French is in Quebec.
But Pauline Marois’ young minority PQ government w...