An Ipsos Reid poll indicates that a majority of Canadians are on the same wavelength as Stephen Harper. Almost two thirds of us believe Israel's military response to Hezbollah's prov...
MONTREAL - Normally, when a dual-passport Canadian accidentally perishes in the chaos of war abroad, sympathy is duly expressed, and the news treadmill pushes on. But when almost an entire C...
Feminism has revolutionized the demography of the university. Women now constitute 59% of the undergraduate population in Canada. In English literature, 83% of undergrads are female; in soci...
Comes Canada Day and the annual glowy focus on the year's diverse multicultural crop of new Canadians, I remember summers in the late 1940s at our Lake Simcoe cottage community north of ...
A simple way to confirm that a particular ideology has captured mainstream culture is to monitor the political vigour or sluggishness around the causes that it deems "correct" and &q...
'For Heaven's sake, a man is cheating on you, you do what every wife in this country does: You take him to the cleaners. Get his house, car, kids -- make him wish he was dead." ...
TORONTO - If you live in Toronto, you may have noticed the Bathurst Street billboards sponsored by Jewish Women International Canada (JWIC). They all display the same emotive ad, featuring a...
Barbara Kay, National Post Published: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 Occasionally, family members or friends ask me to give them advice. When I say "occasionally," though, I&#...
If, like me, you find the world of the soi-disant Humanities to be a rich source of unintended humour, read on. During this week's Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at T...
When news broke of Canada's first female combat death last week -- that of Captain Nichola Goddard in an Afghanistan firefight -- Canadians greeted the news in a gender-neutral way. It w...
Opus Dei, the real-life Catholic fellowship Dan Brown mauls to fictional shreds in his novel The Da Vinci Code, has profited from the public's fascination with the Code phenomenon by ope...
An intriguing article in the Post's April 28 Body and Health section explored the properties of asexuality (not to be confused with celibacy, the voluntary repression of natural urges), ...
REHOVOT, Israel - My last trip to Israel was in July, when Tel Aviv is punishingly hot. The landscape was brown and thirsty-looking. One never stepped out of doors -- and never for long in a...
MONTREAL - Keen to witness his first triumphant return to Montreal as PM, I made an early reservation at the media table for Stephen Harper's guest appearance at the Montreal Board of Tr...
Nobody wants to go to war, but there's nothing to compare to the feeling of having fought and survived a victorious one. Mine -- the 1995 Referendum and its toxic aftermath -- was a poli...
Two weeks ago, I proposed that Canada follow France in banning religious accessories from our public schools. I argued that all religious costume on children is a needless social distraction...
Last week, while touring the Middle East and India, Prince Charles and Camilla visited an organic farm in the Punjab. Clearly in his element, Charles engaged his hosts with gusto, closely qu...
This month, there were two high court cases, one in Britain, one in Canada, both dealing with the limits to freedom of religious expression in public schools. The British case met an importa...
French is an exquisite language. The French are an articulate people. So why do the French always take to the streets rather than simply exchange views on prospective political or economic c...
My husband Ronny waves a Wall Street Journal clipping at me, exhibiting the smug expression that can mean only one thing: Somebody in authority has proven me wrong on one of his alleged shor...