Articles / Media

Why Boom when you can Zoom?

  • July 6, 2011
Barbara Kay, National Post · Jul. 6, 2011 | Last Updated: Jul. 6, 2011 2:02 AM ET When I was young, and assumed social mores were etched in stone, I feared growing old. Back then, "old" meant ab...
Read...
National Post

Rob Ford’s sin against the catechism of gender correctness

  • June 25, 2011
REUTERS/Sergio Moraes "Did you hear Rob Ford is skipping the Pride parade because he'd rather spend a weekend at the cottage than celebrate our sexuality? can you believe it?" ...
Read...
National Post

Desperate for acceptance

  • June 22, 2011
Barbara Kay, National Post · Jun. 22, 2011 | Last Updated: Jun. 22, 2011 2:02 AM ET A while ago a Toronto policeman had the misfortune to suggest publicly that women who didn't w...
Read...
National Post

Denying fathers their rights

  • June 15, 2011
Barbara Kay, National Post · Jun. 15, 2011 | Last Updated: Jun. 15, 2011 3:03 AM ET Shania Twain recently published a memoir detailing her anguish at her ex-husband's affair with...
Read...
National Post

They think they're people

  • June 8, 2011
Barbara Kay, National Post · Jun. 8, 2011 | Last Updated: Jun. 8, 2011 2:03 AM ET The most popular attraction at most zoos is the primate section. We're all fascinated by chimps,...
Read...
National Post

The other side of the story on domestic abuse

  • June 1, 2011
Barbara Kay, National Post · Jun. 1, 2011 | Last Updated: Jun. 1, 2011 2:03 AM ET Remarkably, a PhD student in Criminology at the University of Toronto, Alexandra Lysova, has been awarde...
Read...
National Post

Naïveté's offspring

  • May 25, 2011
Barbara Kay, National Post · May 25, 2011 | Last Updated: May 25, 2011 3:18 AM ET In 1978, a children's book was published called X: A Fabulous Child's Story, about a child w...
Read...
National Post

Shortchanging Philip Roth

  • May 22, 2011
On Wednesday, the prestigious Man Booker International Prize, accompanied by £60,000, was awarded to American author Philip Roth. However, media attention was rather dramatically diverted fro...
Read...
National Post

Spreading human misery

  • May 18, 2011
Barbara Kay, National Post · May 18, 2011 | Last Updated: May 18, 2011 3:16 AM ET Insite, in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside is the only "safe-injection site" (SIS) i...
Read...
National Post

Paging Dr. Layton

  • May 4, 2011
In his wilder dreams, the relentlessly optimistic Jack Layton may have envisaged taking political ownership of Quebec, but I'm still reeling from it. Happily, though. All the Bloc Québécois cared...
Read...
National Post

Sometimes, life is just really sad

  • April 27, 2011
Barbara Kay, National Post · Apr. 27, 2011 | Last Updated: Apr. 27, 2011 4:07 AM ET Grief over the loss of a loved one is a universal phenomenon. But grief's expression and atten...
Read...
National Post

Long live the monarchy

  • April 20, 2011
In a robust democracy, fringe political parties such as the Trotskyists and the Marijuana party are cute. They're like four-week old puppies, confidently waddling around a crate they assume is ...
Read...
National Post

Time for Montreal anglos to shed their robotic Liberalism

  • April 13, 2011
Barbara Kay, National Post · Apr. 13, 2011 | Last Updated: Apr. 13, 2011 3:47 AM ET In his Saturday National Post column, John Ivison dismissed the Conservative party's campaign slogan, "Here ...
Read...
National Post

Free-speech lessons from abolitionists

  • April 6, 2011
Barbara Kay, National Post · Apr. 6, 2011 | Last Updated: Apr. 6, 2011 4:25 AM ET For pundits committed to the widest possible speech latitude, these are times that try our souls. ...
Read...
National Post

Where are all the opinionated women?

  • March 30, 2011
Barbara Kay, National Post · Mar. 30, 2011 | Last Updated: Mar. 30, 2011 4:03 AM ET How are women faring in journalism? Not as well as in nursing -about 100% female -but pretty darn ...
Read...
National Post

A look at a life lived in excess

  • March 25, 2011
Barbara Kay, National Post · Mar. 24, 2011 | Last Updated: Mar. 24, 2011 4:04 AM ET Itook drama lessons as a child. I also knew how to ride a horse, and my drama teacher had con...
Read...
National Post

A short journey from 'pro-choice' to infanticide

  • March 23, 2011
Barbara Kay, National Post · Mar. 23, 2011 | Last Updated: Mar. 23, 2011 5:04 AM ET One of abortion's most militant activists and practitioners died last month. At the exact same...
Read...
National Post

The worst scandals are The ones we Ignore

  • March 16, 2011
Cries of 'scandal' have been flying thick and fast in Ottawa, as opposition parties posture in advance of a possible spring election. But can the Tories' recent troubles really be described as ...
Read...
National Post

Love her or hate her, Palin changed feminism

  • March 9, 2011
This week marks the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, which began amidst the efforts of millions of Western women to work, vote, hold public office and end discrimination. On this o...
Read...
National Post

Sanibel Island, a real-life Truman Show

  • March 2, 2011
My parents started spending their winters in Florida when they were in their mid-50s. When I say "Florida," of course, I mean Miami Beach. Where else would nouveau riche Jews from Tor...
Read...
National Post
PREV / NEXT