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Barbara Kay: In Marois’ Montreal, the sound of English becomes an offence

  • September 28, 2012
I have lived in Montreal for almost 50 years. I arrived as a young bride just when the Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ) was beginning its campaign of terror in the service of an independent Quebe...
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Barbara Kay: Addiction is a ‘disease’ … of choice

  • September 26, 2012
Ronald started using drugs at 14, soon falling into a life of crime and ending up in Vancouver’s notorious Downtown Eastside (DTES). At 40, he stopped using. Drug-free for seven years, he now...
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Barbara Kay: Manliness still matters

  • September 19, 2012
Years ago, researching for a column on women in the military, I interviewed a top military historian who approved of women serving in every military role but combat operations. He supported his...
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Barbara Kay: Of all the convention speakers, ‘Condi’ is the ultimate winner

  • September 12, 2012
I am sure you’re eager for my spontaneous reactions to the U.S. party conventions. Actually, I’m eager to tell you. Close enough. So here goes. Obama’s speech left me totally flat, as has every ...
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Barbara Kay: Beauty queen becomes target of the pit bully lobby

  • September 6, 2012
There used to be a time when beauty contests were only about beauty. Fortunately that all changed, and beauty queens today hold and express confidently strong opinions on how to make the world a be...
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Barbara Kay: The face of Identity Studies on campus

  • September 5, 2012
Academics I trust assure me the scourge of political correctness in the universities is on the wane. Specifically, I’ve been told by an English literature professor at one Canadian university...
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Barbara Kay: Twitter critics get it wrong on Krista Ford

  • August 31, 2012
I remember when the vogue for jeans that were strategically ripped at the knee and other places first appeared on upscale women, my perplexed mother could not quite get her head around the fact tha...
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Barbara Kay on dogs: Man’s best friend – and Man’s clearest mirror

  • August 20, 2012
With dogs lately in my thoughts, I recently reread some beloved childhood stories: Lad: A Dog, by Albert Payson Terhune, then Jack London’s Call of the Wild and White Fang. London’s...
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Full Comment Forum: Too much squeegeeing, too few laws

  • August 10, 2012
Montreal businessman Peter Sergakis says it’s time to get serious about homelessness. After chasing some “squeegee kids” away from his restaurant, he’s advocating more services...
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Barbara Kay: Childbirth’s new opportunity for narcissism

  • August 10, 2012
Four words in the first sentence of an article on the sudden enthusiasm for “birth photography” caught my attention in a big way, after which I found it difficult to focus fully on what fo...
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Barbara Kay on Northrop Frye: The power of myths in shaping history

  • August 8, 2012
Apart from fundamentalists and secularists — the former with uncritical reverence, the latter with contempt — who now takes the Bible seriously as a key to our culture’s worldview...
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Barbara Kay: An educated approach to Israel’s ultra-Orthodox dilemma

  • August 1, 2012
Today, August 1, marks the implementation of Israel’s new draft law that will end 60 years of sanctioned draft-dodging for thousands of Ultra-Orthodox men in the Haredi community. The exe...
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Barbara Kay on Ontario’s Pit Bull ban: Pit Bulls are bred to maul — UPDATED

  • August 1, 2012
AJuly 29 article in the Toronto Star, entitled “Ontario’s pit bull ban: The pit bull underground railroad,” compels my brisk re-entry into the debate over dangerous-dog legislatio...
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Barbara Kay: The cold, cramped, atheistic world of Sam Harris

  • July 31, 2012
So the famous atheist Sam Harris believes that “free will is an illusion” and every single thing we do or say is programmed to be said or done by our genes or early childhood experiences. Suc...
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Barbara Kay: Neglect compounds Montreal’s insult to Mordecai Richler

  • July 25, 2012
Say what you will about Mordecai Richler – and much has been said, with love, hate and everything in between – he was a gifted writer of international status and renown. One critic called him...
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Barbara Kay: Burka bans are about fear, not religion

  • July 25, 2012
Not for the first time, I must take issue with my colleague Chris Selley’s occluded interpretation of why burka-haters get “pretty crazy about that issue,” as he says in his lates...
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Barbara Kay: Looking for mother’s helper, at least 15 years old, able to swim

  • July 25, 2012
When my children were toddlers, I advertised for a mother’s helper (as we then called them) who could provide me with summer-long help, stipulating that candidates must be at least 15 and abl...
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Barbara Kay on the Calgary Stampede: The chuckwagon races must go on

  • July 14, 2012
Marni Soupcoff says the chuckwagon races at the Calgary Stampede should be cancelled because the latest accident, in which three horses died, prove that the sport is just too inherently risky to th...
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Barbara Kay: A right to abortion doesn’t outweigh the right to know the risks

  • July 11, 2012
Nobody disputes the fact that preterm birth (PTB) is a risk factor for a number of infant and childhod afflictions. The more extreme the prematurity, the worse the problems. The most feared risk as...
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Barbara Kay: Psychopaths — and the women (and men) who love them

  • July 11, 2012
The head of Jun Lin, the dismembered and defiled victim of alleged killer Luka Magnotta, was discovered a few days ago in a Montreal park. This exceptional case — it is unusual for killer...
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