In his Monday column, Jonathan Kay gave a thumbs up to Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak, a collection of candid musings by Israeli and Palestinian children designed for a...
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A tragic irony in the story of Ilan Halimi, the French Jew kidnapped and tortured to death two weeks ago, is that he wanted to emigrate to Israel but, according to his mother, was working to...
Far from the riots, vandalism, church burnings and murders by Muslim mobs in the wake of the Danish cartoons, Canada has so far played the role of concerned onlooker. Like the proverbial cou...
MONTREAL - 'I'm in love," my daughter Joanne, whose maternity leave is almost over, sighed down the telephone yesterday.
"Ah!" I twigged immediately, knowing this ...
The escalating furor over the Danish cartoons depicting Muhammad has morphed from questions of free speech and cultural insensitivity into a clash of two civilizations, both of which honour ...
According to my late mother, the pediatrician to whom my older sister and I were taken for our periodic check-ups was a genius. He claimed to know, just from a child's arm muscles, what ...
It can be anti-climactic to finally get what you've long wanted. It isn't that the Conservatives didn't win big enough to please me; it was that the Liberals didn't lose big ...
In a now-infamous government-funded research paper revealed last week, three law professors from Queen's University argue that the criminal status of polygamy serves no useful purpose. L...
MONTREAL - My federal riding is Westmount-Ville-Marie, a lengthy east-west strip comprising most of Montreal's downtown core, including three universities, plus the demergered city of We...
Christmas Eve I had a dream. In it, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) struck down the role of Santa Claus as discriminatory because of his twice-checked lists of "bad or good" and ...
Goethe once mused, "This natural story is highly amiable; only it seems too short, and one is tempted to carry it out in all its details."
By "this natural story," Go...
Two choices, both bad
Barbara Kay, National Post
Published: Wednesday, December 14, 2005
MONTREAL - It isn't news that the Bloc Quebecois will sweep Q...
Archimedes discovered his hydrostatic principle while sloshing about in the tub. I too had my "Eureka!" moment, when I suddenly realized why men throw themselves into their careers...
Published: Wednesday, November 30, 2005
MONTREAL - There's a book launch tonight at S...
Some time after 9/11, on the now defunct CBC TV program counterSpin, a young law student launched a virulent diatribe against America. By a very odd coincidence, at a recent social gathering...
Pride and Prejudice, arguably the most-loved novel in English literature, is a magnet for film and TV directors. Understandably: The story of middle-class Elizabeth Bennet and the aristocrat...
As soon as Remembrance Day lapel poppies make their annual appearance, wars, old and new, occupy my thoughts. I am especially keen to see the film Jarhead, which tells the story of a U.S. Ma...
Ronny comes home from a walk with Polo, and indignantly reports that a neighbour has asked him, "Aren't you a little old for a new puppy?" I agree with my husband that this is,...
After certain publicized remarks he made about women colleagues at a Toronto trade event a few weeks ago, legendary adman Neil French was forced to resign as worldwide creative director for ...
'When I was a teenager, it used to terrify me when I entered non-Jewish households. No one raised their voices. They talked elegantly and meaningfully about absolutely nothing. With nuan...