The cuckoo is a disagreeable bird, distinguished by the monotony of its frequent calls -- hence its association with clocks -- and its parasitism: The slyly opportunistic cuckoo lays its eggs i...
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means, "Hats off to you, Quebec."
With the announcement of Bill 94, barring the niqab in publicly funded spaces, Quebec has dared to tread where the other provinces, feet bolted to...
Never try to predict Quebec's stance on any particular case of "reasonable accommodation." Jean Charest's government is like Forrest Gump's famous box of chocolates: You never know what you're going...
Canadians should be exposed to the full panoply of communist atrocities
In 1968, naive anti-establishment American and Canadian students considered themselves courageous for locking supi...
It was revealed by The Wall Street Journal in late January that at a private strategy session in August, Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama's chief of staff, blasted the internally divisive politic...
In the aftermath of what emerged, against early predictions, as a wildly successful Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, Canadians are basking in an uncharacteristically bullish glow of national prid...
On Sunday, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney praised a Federal Court ruling denying citizenship to Syrian immigrant Nasoh Raslan. At trial, it was revealed that Mr. Raslan's Ontario "h...
One of the greatest challenges of being a parent is figuring out what and how to teach your child about religion. In a week-long series of commentary articles, National Post contributors assess...
Alexis de Toqueville, the legendarily prescient 19th century observer of the American mentalite, (he coined the word "individualism"), believed America's absence of social hierarc...
Valentine's Day, a licence to print money for greeting-card manufacturers, jewellers, flower shops and restaurants, was never a deeply meaningful occasion. But at least it was the most beni...
In their choice of divorce lawyers as in all else, royals Charles and Diana went their separate ways: Charles to experienced establishment divorce-law solicitor Fiona Shackleton, Diana to Antho...
In the Post’s Feb. 4 excerpt from Benjamin Errett’s book, Jew and Improved: How Choosing to be Chosen Made Me a Better Man, the usual riddle-style question is posed as to whether the Je...
As all doctors know, untreated gangrene in a single limb can spread quickly through the body and lead to death. The most effective way to halt the progress of gangrene is to cut off the corrupting ...
A scathingly reviewed exhibit by Damien Hirst demonstrates just how low the modern art world has fallen
Afour-month long, much-hyped London exhibit of 25 recent works, painted by English "artist" D...
For Holden Caulfield, as for Salinger himself, sexual maturity destroyed the soul
J.D. Salinger published his first story in 1940 at the age of 21, but it was the 1951 publication of Cat...
A feminist icon, "thealogist" Mary Daly died Jan. 3 at the age of 81. Almost unknown outside the academy, Daly was a militant influence on feminist approaches to religion.
If he...
The industry that has grown up around domestic violence (DV), or, as it is more precisely situated these days in research circles, intimate partner violence (IPV), began in good faith decades ago a...
Memo regarding the release of a major report: Don't choose a time when most pundits are so distracted by upcoming holidays that their mental inbox is too full to give the report its due con...
From earliest childhood it would seem that the hardest words to say are "I'm sorry." Children would never say them if they weren't coached, prompted, nagged and sometimes time...
A recent study by a Michigan psychology professor concluded that "young children spanked by their parents may perform better at school later and grow up to be happier." Spanked? Happi...