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 ...
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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...
This fall, Britain's Prospect and America's Foreign Policy magazines asked readers to pick their favourite "public intellectual" from a list of 100 world-renowned thinkers....
If you've indulged in banned substances while in high office, or stolen the pocketable equivalent of a fully loaded Lexus RX 300, how do you restore Canadians' faith in your credibil...
My husband enjoys telling people how he "proposed" marriage to me.
Ronny was from Montreal but working in Toronto at the time. It was
1964. I was in my last undergrad year of university. After we'd da...
To earn their keep, all I ever ask of royals or their Canadian
surrogates is to make me feel honoured in their presence. I do not take
a G-G's measure from the stirring kitsch of an installation speec...