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...
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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...
If you are interested in the results of beauty pageants – and in this day and age, who is left that is? – you will be interested to know that Jenna Talackova failed in her bid to win th...
Sometimes a cabinet minister can’t win, when it comes to public opinion. Such would appear to be the case this week for Heritage Minister James Moore, under whose aegis Sex: A Tell-All E...
Nobody doubts the sincerity of Barack Obama’s recent gay-marriage endorsement. But this usually cautious politician’s definitive self-outing is politically puzzling. After all, ordinary...
Just when you thought Ottawa and area adolescents would never find out a single thing about sex until their wedding nights, along comes “Sex: A Tell-All Exhibition” to the Canada Science a...