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Barbara Kay: The Campus Condition

  • January 30, 2013
In his Saturday National Post column, Rex Murphy considers the case of long-time student Arun Smith, who last week enjoyed his 15 minutes of media fame for vandalizing a message board at Ottawa&rsq...
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Barbara Kay: Law Deans’ position on Trinity Western would shut every law school in Canada

  • January 25, 2013
Trinity Western University (TWU) in British Columbia proposes to establish its own law school. It would teach the same law as secular law schools, but it would ask its students to sign a Community ...
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Barbara Kay: Nova Scotia hitman case reinforces gender bias of Canadian courts

  • January 24, 2013
The more I read, the more bizarre it got. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled this week on a case where an allegation of spousal abuse – never substantiated – is the heart of a troubl...
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Barbara Kay: Be careful about calling it ‘death with dignity’

  • January 23, 2013
I have always found it odd that the same people who feel the death penalty is barbaric often look benignly on euthanasia. And it does show that words matter. One person’s stark “state k...
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Barbara Kay: University of Toronto ‘values’ are OK on orgies, but not an Olympian-producing rifle club

  • January 18, 2013
Yesterday I wrote a post here criticizing the University of Toronto’s Sexual Education Centre (SEC) for its active collaboration in a sex orgy at Toronto’s Oasis Aqua Lounge, a water-th...
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Barbara Kay: Ann and Abby reigned supreme with common sense for ordinary people

  • January 18, 2013
Pauline Phillips, better known as the famous long-running advice columnist, Abigail Van Buren – “Dear Abby”- has died at the age of 94 in Minneapolis. For decades Paulin...
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Barbara Kay: Only the ducks benefit when Quebec’s language police come to town

  • January 17, 2013
For 27 years, we owned a modest country house – sounds grander than “cottage,” but that’s what anglo-Quebecers call their vacation homes – near the Laurentian Mountain...
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Barbara Kay: University of Toronto’s Pimps-R-Us program offers discounts to sex party

  • January 16, 2013
The University of Toronto, you will be edified to know, is “kicking off its annual Sexual Awareness Week” next Monday at a downtown Toronto club, the Oasis Aqua Lounge, where swingers a...
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Barbara Kay: How the Ontario Liberals blew their first chance at a female premier

  • January 16, 2013
Going thru some old files and was reminded of… Lyn McLeod It seems rather strange that so many other provinces already have women premiers – Quebec, Newfoundland, British Colum...
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Barbara Kay: There will be no do-overs for Chris Spence

  • January 16, 2013
What was he thinking? The question rippled through the nation, when it was revealed last week that Chris Spence, much-admired director of education at the Toronto District School Board, had bee...
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Barbara Kay: A female premier means nothing to Ontario

  • January 14, 2013
In a breathless announcement from the Toronto Star, we learn today that Ontario is “on the brink” of having a woman as premier “for the first time in history”!! In early ret...
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Barbara Kay: Twisted minds and the heinous crimes draw fan clubs for mass killers

  • January 10, 2013
The trial trial of accused Colorado mass killer James Holmes is in session. The courtroom is packed with media, victims’ family and friends and curious members of the public. Prosecutors are ...
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Barbara Kay on society’s propensity to submit to the narcissistic impulse

  • January 9, 2013
I laughed out loud when I read my colleague George Jonas’ Saturday column. Background: Every year-end, newspaper columnists are asked to submit what they think are their best (or most the...
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Barbara Kay on Theresa Spence: You call that a ‘hunger strike’?

  • January 4, 2013
And now: something about Theresa Spence that falls into the what-everybody-is-thinking-but-won’t-say file. There are hunger strikes and there are hunger strikes. To me, a hunger strike is...
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Barbara Kay: Delusional pitbull owners and their predictable denials

  • January 2, 2013
It’s happened again. In southeast Calgary on New Year’s Eve afternoon, three dogs savagely attacked two other dogs. Can you guess the breed of all three attacking dogs? Pit bulls, o...
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Barbara Kay: Rise of the independent publishers

  • January 1, 2013
Novelists don’t care if they ever write a newspaper column, but many journalists long to tap their creative juices in novel-writing. In 1995 I wrote a novel. Euphoric, I handed it over to...
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Barbara Kay: When fireworks and alienated youth collide

  • December 31, 2012
My son remembers playing with cap guns when he was young. You would put a roll of red paper with dots on it into the toy gun, and then every time you pulled the trigger, you’d hear a mighty b...
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Barbara Kay: Niqab ruling opens the door for Ottawa to act

  • December 20, 2012
The Supreme Court of Canada has rendered its decision on what has come to be known as “the niqab case,” which pitted against each other the Charter right to freedom of religion and the ...
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Barbara Kay on sex-selective abortion: The ‘war on women’ that dares not speak its name

  • December 19, 2012
Since the dawn of the modern pro-choice movement, liberal activists have done their best to equate abortion-on-demand with women’s rights. Make access to abortion easier, the theory goes, and...
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Barbara Kay: The Olympic stadium is a disaster, not ‘Quebec culture’

  • December 14, 2012
For the past year, a committee has been considering the future of the ill-starred Montreal Olympic Stadium, which was built for the Olympic games Montreal hosted in 1976. You know the building ...
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