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...
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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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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Canadians when he told a Radio-Canada interviewer that if the Canadian government put any constraints on abortion or repealed gay marriage, “maybe I would th...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...