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Jonas - a 'classic liberal' (National Post, September 21, 2005)

  • September 21, 2005
There's a convention in column-writing that makes us shrink from mentioning the accomplishments of our op-ed page confreres. None of us wants to come across as a groupie in print. Instead, we send eac...
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The misguided march of the 'quirkyalones' (National Post, September 14, 2005)

  • September 14, 2005
Have you seen March of the Penguins?The film chronicles Antarctica's Emperor penguins on their multiple annual 70-mile treks from feeding to breeding grounds. They suffer astonishing privations in ord...
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Enter the modern sleuth, fat, drunk and incompetent (National Post, September 7, 2005)

  • September 7, 2005
The older I get, the more I feel that whatever I read should educate, edify or elucidate. Only on vacation do I feel justified indulging myself in the "mere" entertainment of detective fiction.I looke...
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Conrad's London, then as now (National Post, August 10, 2005)

  • August 10, 2005
At his recent trial, Mohammed Bouyeri, 27, a Dutch citizen of Moroccan descent, who last year ghoulishly assassinated film-maker Theo Van Gogh, coldly addressed the victim's tormented mother: "I don't...
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The low-carb revolution meets its end (National Post, August 3, 2005)

  • August 3, 2005
Lo, how the mighty hath fallen. Can it really be true? I have just read that the Atkins Diet empire has crumbled. They've declared bankruptcy. I imagine all the sugar industry executives in America ar...
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A Lance of my own (National Post, July 27, 2005)

  • July 27, 2005
International competitions like the Tour de France, or the World Aquatic Championships now in progress in Montreal, motivate kids to take up sport. That's good. But over-ambitious parents of talented ...
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The French media connection (National Post, July 20, 2005)

  • July 20, 2005
MONTREAL - I was startled -- not in a good way -- to learn from political scientist Jean-Sebastien Rioux in a Post op ed last week that a majority of (francophone) callers to a Radio-Canada talk show ...
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Circumcision: vindicated at last (National Post, July 13, 2005)

  • July 13, 2005
The International AIDS Society will meet in Rio de Janeiro later this month. There, senior researcher Bertran Auvert, representing the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, will an...
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The best reader a columnist could have (National Post, July 06, 2005)

  • July 6, 2005
This column, approximately my 100th, marks my second anniversary of weekly contribution to the National Post. Happy contemplation of this milestone was cut short, though, by distressing parallel news ...
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Tales of a Bush league outfielder (National Post, June 29, 2005)

  • June 29, 2005
KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine - As Canada Day approaches -- with American Independence Day close on its heels -- I feel distant from Prime Minister Paul Martin and very close to President George Bush. It isn't...
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Befriend the sinner, banish the sin (National Post, June 22, 2005)

  • June 22, 2005
MONTREAL - Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick,Yet with my nobler reason, 'gainst my furyDo I take part: the rarer action isIn virtue than in vengeance..." (The Tempest, Prospero to...
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A Father's Day I'd like to see (National Post, June 15, 2005)

  • June 15, 2005
Father's Day is meant to celebrate dads. This year, instead of buying them ties or barbecue tools, let's pledge to roll back the ideological campaign aimed at belittling their virtues and achievements...
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Welcome home, Mrs. Mortimer (National Post, June 08, 2005)

  • June 8, 2005
Summer reading lists are sprouting in the weekend newspapers. Everything sounds beguiling, so how does one choose? I'm sometimes lucky judging books by their cover. For example, my latest purchase, ir...
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Ten reasons not to fear separatism (National Post, June 01, 2005)

  • June 1, 2005
MONTREAL - The French have just voted non to the EU constitution. Current EU president Jean-Claude Juncker says countries voting No need a second referendum to obtain "the right answer." That ploy can...
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Sexism, stood on its head (National Post, May 25, 2005)

  • May 25, 2005
'Blonde Bombshell"! "Whore"! "Dipstick"! "Barbie!" The media Belindatron has whirled for days with outrage over sexism against poor Ms. Stronach. Never mind Belinda's opportunistic betrayal of her par...
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Don't talk to him (National Post, May 18, 2005)

  • May 18, 2005
Two years ago, David Ahenakew, former national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, was charged with promoting hatred in a 2002 rant against Jews. His unprovoked denunciations, captured by a report...
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A land with no leaders (National Post, May 11, 2005)

  • May 11, 2005
A federal election is imminent or in prospect. With two parties -- the Bloc Quebecois and the NDP -- mired in a state of permanent opposition, we are left to ponder a choice between Paul Martin and St...
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In praise of unilingualism (National Post, May 04, 2005)

  • May 4, 2005
Is multilingualism always an unalloyed blessing? May not absolute command of a single language be preferable to mere competence in two or more?Promotions for the new movie, The Interpreter, a thriller...
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Cancer patients deserve better (National Post, April 27, 2005

  • April 27, 2005
At my age, nobody hasn't had a personal brush with cancer. If not yourself, others in your extended family or circle of friends have it or did: Some are now dead, some have undergone multiple surgerie...
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Romance, not rape (National Post, April 20, 2005)

  • April 20, 2005
From the death-saturated month of March -- Terry Schiavo and the pope 24/7 -- the media turned in April to the life cycle's happier ritual of marriage. Two weeks ago it was the nuptials of Ken and Dei...
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