Up in the Air is the Rom Com (romantic comedy) of the year. Most critics love it. It's hugely entertaining, but the surprise ending (spoiler alert!) sends a jarring message no reviewer (to ...
National Post
National Post
The notion that female victimhood is more tragic than male victimhood has long been widely accepted. But those days are over
Christinne Muschi, Reuters
Something odd occurred in...
One of my favourite novelists died Oct. 21 at the age of 87, and it took a while before the news reached me: The British-Israeli Lionel Davidson was relatively unknown on this side of the pond,...
In September 2008, after years of pre-planning by elites without public consultation, Quebec's Ministry of Education established a province-wide, compulsory pedagogical program called Ethiq...
I have two sisters, an older and a younger. We like to pretend we all make our life choices independently, but in fact, every little decision by one sister immediately prompts low-grade competitive...
There is one subject no writer in the world, even the most talented and eclectic, would hope to have as a book project, and that is the death of his own child.
A Cracking of the Heart by f...
In the process of conveying a general idea or a cue to an emotional response, we often seek instinctive recourse in a linguistic device called antonomasia. We'll substitute an antonomastic ...
Barbara Kay responds to Matt Gurney
Posted: November 25, 2009, 3:14 PM by Matt Gurney
Barbara Kay, Euthanasia, Holy Post
Matt Gurney’s November 24 column, “My ...
Last week, while sitting in my plastic surgeon's waiting room reading brochures extolling the magical properties of mysteriously named "fillers" that can reverse nature's cruel depradations to the f...
A just-released study from the Vanier Institute of the Family by York University professor Anne-Marie Ambert, Divorce: Facts, Causes and Consequences, vindicates assumptions many conservatives hold ...
National Addictions Awareness Week begins today (Nov. 18-24). Everybody -- informed or otherwise -- has an opinion on addiction and how to treat it, so the subject never fails to generate animated p...
Finally, the government has explicitly recognized that socially approved violence against women is barbaric
Last week the Post published excerpts from the new guidebook issued by Citizenshi...
They don’t call it the scary-sounding “Hemlock Society” any more. The new name is “Compassion and Choices.” Under this cuddly rubric, bespoke death is now endorsed by respected society matro...
You'll never see a fat chimpanzee in the wild. Chimps spend about six hours a day chewing their diet of raw fruits and vegetation to absorb enough energy to survive. That explains their wide mouths ...
Chris Wattie, Reuters
The Liberal Women's Caucus has released their 40-page Pink Book, Volume III.
Clearly a great deal of midnight oil was consumed by the Pink Book writers in agonizing about wha...
As my first-born was a boy, I quite reasonably hoped for a girl the second time around. In my technologically antediluvian era, one discovered one's child's sex upon delivery. So the long gestationa...
English poet Philip Larkin, informed that heaven would restore him to a state of childish innocence, abjured the supposed gift, preferring "money, keys, wallets, letters, books, long-playing records...
On our first trip to London some 35 years ago, my husband and I sought directions to a point of interest from two obvious City denizens, bowler-hatted gentlemen in three-piece suits, carrying briefc...
Here's a first for me: a citation from the Koran in support of an historically unhappy truth about my people. Surah 59:14 says of the Jews: "There is much hostility between them: Their hearts are di...
MONTREAL -Lately, we have witnessed a pernicious cultural trend toward the rebranding of legalized euthanasia as a gift rather than a menace to society's most vulnerable citizens.
I doubt that Bloc...