When life imitates Shakespeare
Barbara Kay, National Post
Published: Friday, March 30, 2007
The Merchant of Venice began a short run at Mc- Gill University t...
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Seven years ago, Ken Sandall's wife walked out on him with their two young children. At the time, Ken was making $2,250 a month. A judge ordered him to pay $2,000 a month in spousal and child suppo...
I’m glad Saturday’s Post brought the loss of public civility in public to the fore. I am old enough to remember a time when extreme rudeness and coarse language were not tolerated, becau...
If, throughout her fascinating life, Barbara Amiel Black has come in for a lot of critical press, it is no doubt due in large part to her own controversial statements and choices. She's said some d...
The Boisclair affair signals the arrival of the Thought Police in Quebec
A comedian from British Columbia is produ...
You are what you read
Schools shouldn't let children pick their own books
Barbara Kay, National Post
Published: Wednesday, March 14, 2007
According to Reading at Risk, a...
'Israeli Apartheid Week" (IAW) once again blotted intellectual landscapes on university campuses throughout February in the United States, Europe and Canada (Toronto, Hamilton, Otta...
In Thursday's Comment section. radio host John Moore argued that wearing we shouldn't make a big deal of the soccer-hijab story — after all, Moore writes, a hijab is just anoth...
Earlier this month, the Vanier Institute of the Family published a report -- The Rise in the Number of Children and Adolescents who exhibit Problematic Behaviours: Multiple Causes -- claimin...
In the early days of feminism's ascendance, a certain joke made the rounds -- its theme remained constant, although the particulars varied -- that never failed to raise a knowing chuckle...
Last Thursday, environmentalist guru David Suzuki stormed out of a Toronto AM640 radio interview with host John Oakley because Oakley dared to suggest that global warming might not be the &q...
Today is Valentine's Day. And where, Sensible Reader, will I not be found tonight? Hint: I will not be found there for New Years Eve dinner or brunch on Mother's Day either. Precisel...
Since the moment at the Preakness Stakes in 2006 when Barbaro shattered a leg in three places, the entire racing world, and horse fanciers in general, followed with fierce suspense the drama...
In a change of pace from my usual curmudgeonly grumbling about academia, I bring news of an innovative university course -- it's trickle-down effect, I predict, will in the course of the...
Hell hath no fury like one journalist bamboozled by another. This journalist was furious when she learned that the Dec. 31 British Sunday Times article "Science told: Hands off Gay Shee...
I caught the opening episode of CBC's Little Mosque on the Prairie Tuesday night. It wasn't quite as bad as I'd anticipated. That is to say, it's awful, but at least my worst...
Funny things, these executions of murderous tyrants. They really separate the liberal elites from the ordinary people like nothing else I know. Take Saddam Hussein's execution the other ...
Comes Christmas, columnists rummage through their metaphorical larders for a hidden morsel of topical originality to tempt readers' jaded palates.
This year, my musings are inspired ...
Traditionally minded Canadians and their libertine counterparts resemble dysfunctional lovers: The traditionalists' needs go unfulfilled, while their litigious bedmates selfishly achieve...
Seventeen years ago today Marc Lepine killed 14 women and himself at the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal in Canada's worst mass murder. From this human tragedy of no inherent political s...