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...
National Post
National Post
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
Until 2008, the curriculum of Montreal’s (private) Catholic Loyola High School included a course called “Morals and World Religions” (MWR). MWR taught students the basic history a...
In 1952, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – the DSM – the psychiatrist’s bible for diagnosis of mental problems, was a 132-page booklet. Today, in its fourth incarnation...
Conservative backbencher Mark Warawa is making life miserable for the opposition. He has asked the Commons to approve a motion – M408 – to “condemn discrimination against females ...
I hate to drive because I have bad parking karma, so I use public transportation regularly. I also have a phobia about being pushed onto the subway tracks, so while waiting for trains, I always stand ...