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...
National Post
National Post
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...
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...
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...
There’s nothing more humiliating for a journalist than pontificating on a subject with ardent conviction, and then being proved wrong. But there’s nothing more gratifying for...
Ocean or lake?
Ocean or lake?
For ten months a year, we opinion writers are racked by inner debate over the hard news of the world: Should Israel bomb Iran? Can the European Union survive? ...
Although not a gay male, I had a passion for musical theatre in youth, participating in amateur performances whenever opportunity presented. (Mine was the golden era of musicals, many of them in ...
It’s the problem that won’t go away for professionally successful mothers: “work-life balance.” The more they achieve in their careers, the more guilt and tension they feel abo...
Not since amateur singer Susan Boyle lit up the stage on Britain's Got Talent in 2009 has an obscure, plain, overweight white woman caused such a YouTube sensation. I refer, of course, to grandmother ...
Alice Walker, best known as the author of the novel The Color Purple, is a longtime political activist, with a special — one might even say obsessional — fixation on Israel as the avatar o...
I have a big family — and a few of my relatives have gone on to great things. Last week, for instance, a cousin of mine retired, full of honours, from a distinguished 50-year career in child and...
The first radical shake-up of family courts in decades is under way in the U.K. A dramatic list of consequences will befall any breach of court orders that flout court-endorsed arrangements for the ca...
In 2008, while on the presidential campaign trail, Barack Obama’s Father’s Day message was: “[Black fathers] have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men...
Last month, Ottawa’s Museum of Science and Technology was criticized for hosting “Sex: A Tell-All Exhibition.” PEN Canada asked two journalists to debate whether the exhibit was a...
Showcasing a stellar cast of Britain’s finest seasoned actors, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel had all the makings of a light, feel-good entertainment about quirky characters in a novel situat...
Nobody can predict the end game in the never-ending Quebec protest against tuition hikes. It can’t be good either way: frozen tuition means the province is being run by mobs; tuition hikes wi...
Six months ago an amendment was passed to Ontario’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA). It was folded in like whipped egg white to a cake batter, the batter being Bill ...
We were dining at a good bistro. The waiter — early 20s — accidentally knocked a glass of water onto my lap. Suppressing annoyance, I was summoning a gracious smile to acknowledge his f...
In case you haven’t noticed, the massive protests in Quebec have been rather one-sided, culturally speaking. As the mindless mobs fill the streets day after day, protesting the injustice of h...
I’m so old, I remember when vampires were scary. I would never have predicted they would quit their lugubrious fortresses in Transylvania to become the cynosure of teenage girls’ romant...