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The Boisclair affair signals the arrival of the Thought Police in Quebec (National Post March 21,2007)

  • March 21, 2007
The Boisclair affair signals the arrival of the Thought Police in Quebec A comedian from British Columbia is produ...
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You are what you read (National Post March 14,2007)

  • March 14, 2007
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...
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Israel's grassroots defenders (National Post March 7,2007)

  • March 7, 2007
'Israeli Apartheid Week" (IAW) once again blotted intellectual landscapes on university campuses throughout February in the United States, Europe and Canada (Toronto, Hamilton, Otta...
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Rebuttal to John Moore on the "Soccer Girl Hijab" (National Post March 2, 2007)

  • March 2, 2007
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...
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For want of a father (National Post February 28, 2007)

  • February 28, 2007
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...
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Men of the church (National Post February 24, 2007)

  • February 24, 2007
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...
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David Suzuki vs. Michael Crichton (National Post February 21, 2007)

  • February 21, 2007
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...
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Happy Valentine's Day. Don't forget the pepperoni (National Post February 14, 2007)

  • February 14, 2007
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...
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My own private Barbaro (National Post February 07, 2007)

  • February 7, 2007
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...
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Training the conservatives of tomorrow (National Post January 31, 2007)

  • January 31, 2007
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...
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How I fell for PETA's gay ram scam (National Post January 24, 2007)

  • January 24, 2007
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...
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The joke's on us: a review of Little Mosque on the Prairie (National Post, January 11, 2007)

  • January 11, 2007
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...
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Ding dong, the tryant's dead (National Post, January 02,2007)

  • January 2, 2007
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 ...
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Perverting the Holy Spirit (National Post, December 20,2006)

  • December 20, 2006
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 ...
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The perils of premature adjudication (National Post, December 13,2006)

  • December 13, 2006
Traditionally minded Canadians and their libertine counterparts resemble dysfunctional lovers: The traditionalists' needs go unfulfilled, while their litigious bedmates selfishly achieve...
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Lone gunman: The Ecole Polytechnique massacre was a freak tragedy. So why is every man made to feel guilty for it? (National Post, December 06,2006)

  • December 6, 2006
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...
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Hunting the fox, skewering the Finn (National Post, November 29,2006)

  • November 29, 2006
Hunting the fox, skewering the Finn Renaissance man Roger Scruton serves up original ideas, chiselled prose Barbara Kay, National Post Published: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 ...
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Say what you want (as long as it's in French) (National Post, November 22,2006)

  • November 22, 2006
Until August, my name was completely unknown to most of Quebec's francophones. On Aug. 9, that all changed with my National Post column titled "The Rise of Quebecistan." Sudden...
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Response to Criticism from Librarian regarding column of Nov. 01,2006 (National Post, November 15,2006)

  • November 15, 2006
Response to Criticism from Librarian regarding column of November 01,2006 On the Post's Nov. 11 Letters page, Brenda Roberts, Ottawa Pubic Library librarian, accused me of "inte...
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Keep it down (National Post, November 15,2006)

  • November 15, 2006
I attended the National Post's lively 8th anniversary party in Toronto last month. Alas, the band was far too loud for my oldie taste. Mindful of encroaching hearing loss, I left early w...
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