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Barbara Kay: Confronting abortion, ‘the defining moral conflict of our epoch’

  • May 9, 2012
Canada is the only developed country in the world with no abortion law. This political vacuum suits liberals and libertarians, but discomfits many other Canadians. Since the issue is being strenuou...
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Barbara Kay: As a social educator, Glee makes a good musical

  • May 2, 2012
It’s not targeted to my demographic, but I love the TV series Glee. The talent is dazzling, the production numbers gloriously executed: It’s like watching a mini-Broadway show in the comfort ...
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Barbara Kay: Won’t win a Tony Award, but I enjoyed this family drama

  • May 1, 2012
When I was growing up in Toronto, annual visits to my Detroit cousins were much-hyped occasions. Sometimes it meant a day off from school. Then there was the drive through the spooky Windsor-Detroi...
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Barbara Kay: Ode to the monarchy

  • April 27, 2012
In his new book, The Secret of the Crown: Canada’s Affair with Royalty, John Fraser describes a 1953 scene in which his not-quite nine-year-old self is sprawled prone in front of “IT.&r...
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The image of crotchety old people is a myth

  • April 26, 2012
 It’s a good day to be old. A study in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science finds that all those stereotypes of self-centred, curmudgeonly seniors raining b...
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Barbara Kay: The image of crotchety old people is a myth

  • April 26, 2012
It’s a good day to be old. A study in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science finds that all those stereotypes of self-centred, curmudgeonly seniors raining baleful imprecati...
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Barbara Kay: Michael Ignatieff hands Quebec separatists an unexpected gift

  • April 24, 2012
In February, Justin Trudeau shocked Canadians when he told a Radio-Canada interviewer that if the Canadian government put any constraints on abortion or repealed gay marriage, “maybe I would th...
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Culture, statistics back up churches

  • April 24, 2012
 Barbara Kay, National Post · Apr. 23, 2012 | Last Updated: Apr. 23, 2012 2:02 AM ET Three churches so far have launched an internal investigation of their histor...
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Barbara Kay: Bless this food, except for the atheist at Table 12

  • April 23, 2012
Don’t you feel sorry for atheists? They’re so downtrodden. They can’t catch a break. People are always saying to them, “Oh sorry, no, you can’t apply for this job....
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Barbara Kay: Coerced adoptions reflected the culture of the times

  • April 20, 2012
Three churches so far have launched an internal investigation of their historic maternity home practices, following hard on the heels of an in-depth investigation by the National Post on coerced ad...
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Barbara Kay: Taking a second look at marijuana legalization

  • April 18, 2012
Here at the comment section of the National Post, Dear Editor likes his opinion writers to keep an open mind on all subjects. He sees the ability to change one’s opinion when the evidence...
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Barbara Kay on the Titanic and women’s suffrage: It’s about votes and boats

  • April 10, 2012
As with 9/11, the magnitude of the Titanic tragedy cannot be overstated. Both the Twin Towers and the Titanic were unprecedented testimonials to their respective eras’ wealth and power. Both ...
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Barbara Kay: Blasphemy by any other name

  • April 4, 2012
A few months ago, a young Saudi man, Hamza Kashgari, expressed his views on the prophet Mohammed in a Tweet: “I have loved things about you and I have hated things about you and there is a lo...
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Barbara Kay: Mothers who abandon or kill their infants have a friend in the courts

  • April 2, 2012
In May of 2007, April Halkett gave birth to a baby boy at the Prince Albert, Saskatchewan Wal-Mart and walked out alone. The baby was found shortly afterward, and was saved. Charged with the crime ...
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Barbara Kay: A literary adulterer confesses her e-sins

  • March 28, 2012
WESTMOUNT, Que. — I was smitten by an enormous pang of guilt when I read that the Nicholas Hoare bookshop, for 40 years a fixture in my neighbourhood’s tiny, semi-tony shopping hub, is closi...
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It takes a jihadi village

  • March 27, 2012
Mohamed Merah is captured in this frame grab from a video broadcast by a French television station.    In the immediate aftermath of the recent bloodbath executed by Mohamed ...
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Barbara Kay: Two months in jail for a being crass and insensitive

  • March 27, 2012
I don’t tweet. At one time I was tempted to start, because one feels like a bit of a dinosaur if one doesn’t. But at this moment I am happy to be an electronic Brontosaurus. Much safer,...
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Barbara Kay: Manitoba’s domestic violence blip no cause to panic

  • March 26, 2012
Headline in the Winnipeg Free Press: “Domestic killings in spotlight.” That’s a grabber. Are Manitoba women at more risk of violence than they have been in the past? According to this story...
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Barbara Kay: Merah may have hunted alone, but he was no lone wolf

  • March 26, 2012
In the immediate aftermath of the recent bloodbath executed by Mohamed Merah in Toulouse, leaving three French paratroopers, a Jewish teacher, his two sons and another Jewish child dead, a number o...
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Barbara Kay: ‘Quebec values’ means no blessings for chickens

  • March 16, 2012
I make chicken soup all the time. It tastes great and it’s a cure for everything. My younger sister does too. But she will only use kosher chickens to make it. She swears kosher chickens make...
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