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...
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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 ...
In his National Post column today, “Amish lessons in Mourning,” Jonathan Kay compares two different reactions to tragic killings of women and girls. In 1989 a lone psychotic gunm...
The Shah of Iran had just died. Russia was hosting the Olympics. Linda Ronstadt was starring in The Pirates of Penzance. Sony had just come out with a cute new little gadget called a “Walkman...
On December 1 at an organized rally for Quebec independence, the Canadian flag was desecrated. In the video of the incident, taken by the editor of putbacktheflag.com, an anglo rights website, you see...
I see that famous dog whisperer Cesar Millan will appear at Toronto’s Bell Centre Sunday as part of the 19-city Canadian tour of his show, “Trust Your Instincts.” Tickets to hear ...
In his latest Saturday column, Conrad Black wrote: “Let us abolish imprisonment for all non-violent offences except the briefest periods, the most egregious offences, or the chronic recidivis...
“Beware of camels near the roads,” said a sign in Hebrew, Arabic and English as we rolled through the tawny moonscape of the Negev desert. Minutes later, as if cued, a camel appeared ne...
Yesterday, chancing to find myself on the Sde Boker campus of Ben Gurion University in Israel’s Negev region, I dropped in on the fourth annual Drylands, Deserts & Desertification confere...
But enough already about the U.S. elections. Instead, let me tell you about the 90 minutes that I spent two weeks ago taping a one-on-one interview with Montreal public-affairs journalist Richard M...
Arrests are piling up higgledy-piggledy in the proliferating posthumous investigation of longtime BBC entertainer and pedophile Jimmy Savile (1926-2011). The latest suspects include a “glam r...
This Saturday in Tucson, Arizona, Pit Bull Awareness Day will commemorate the victims of dangerous dog attacks. It will be a heartfelt, but modest affair. Those sympathetic to the (mostly) children...
A Windsor, Ontario licensing commission has unanimously voted to have a 3-pound Chihuahua declared a “dangerous dog.” Molly, the canine mite in question, is accused of nipping a postal ...
Officially sanctioned injustice focuses the victim’s mind wonderfully. When such an injustice befalls someone of high intelligence, iron will and an enormous reservoir of patience, sometimes ...
October is National Anti-Bullying month. As a tragic reminder of the need for this, we learn that 15-year old Amanda Todd, a former “spunky” cheerleader and Grade 10 student at th...
Every politician hopes that events in the news will serve to maximize public awareness of their policy initiatives. But some news coincidences they would happily forego.
Yesterday Minister for Status ...
Canada’s Supreme Court clarified a section of the country’s sex laws Friday, ruling that failure to disclose one’s HIV-positive status to a sexual partner won’t automatically lead to a...
I think we’re going about this abortion debate the wrong way. We all know when life begins in the DNA sense: It begins at conception. The only people who have a bulletproof logical position o...