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A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat, by Senator Zell Miller (Stroud and Hall, 2003)
If you’re wondering about that sizzling noise coming fro...
Iain Duncan Smith was recently dumped as leader of Britain's Conservative party. Many claimed it followed upon wage-fiddling complaints concerning his payrolled wife Betsy. Having worked with a pe...
Canada’s Invisible Military
Barbara Kay, National Post
Published: November 5th 2003
I know doctors in droves, bus...
T-Shirt Messaging Brooks no Dissent
Barbara Kay, National Post
Published: October 22nd 2003
Like other writers, desperate for grist to the mill, I a...
John Paul II is fading. Reports suggest he will go "gently into that good night" as one would expect from a man of his extraordinary faith. His peace of mind is perhaps reinforce...
MONTREAL - Recently the oxymoronically named Jews for Jesus trolled Toronto waters for converts to messianism, then left Canada. So what's Montreal -- chopped liver?
Actually JFJ mini-blitzed Mon...
First-borns are, by a huge statistical margin over later-borns,
conscientious, high-achieving, well-organized, and perfectionistic.
They remember and even dwell on th...
Woody Allen once said, "I don't think being funny is anyone's first choice." He was wrong.
I got hooked on the "ecstasy" of comedy at seven, when my father woke me at 2 a.m. to entertain party gues...
Like thousands of other Canadians, I have been reading William Sampson's account of his ordeal in Saudi Arabia with the painful mixture of incredulity, fascination, horror, outrage and frustration...
The second anniversary of 9/11 won't be as emotionally charged as the first, but the day will be saturated with ritual, speeches and media commentary, as is appropriate for the annual commemoration ...
The new Elizabeth George is in the shops, and I won't wait for the paperback. I must have it immediately, while there are leisure hours enough to enjoy it before Labour Day.
The days grow shorter...
In the style section of the New York Times a few weeks ago, a layout was entitled: "The Mirror has Two Faces: Fall fashion addresses that great cultural dichotomy -- good girl or bad?" An immigran...
'It's strange to be in a country house that isn't held together with duct tape," says my friend Barbara as she appraises the smartly stained exterior of our Laurentian retreat. ("Country house" so...
Sylvie brings our dinner, and it is both hot and crisp, yet soft and melting in the exact right proportions. Sylvie says, "You know what we call you two?" She giggles. "Mr. and Mrs. Pizza Hut." My...
Sylvie brings our dinner, and it is both hot and crisp, yet soft and melting in the exact right proportions. Sylvie says, "You know what we call you two?" She giggles. "Mr. and Mrs. Pizza Hut." My...
If you build it, they will come. It worked for the baseball diamond in the movie Field of Dreams, but apparently it doesn't work for gays. Weeks after an Ontario court invited gays to wed, a decis...
All of a sudden the magazine Modern Maturity is offering tips you find curiously useful, and that's one sign. But there's a more sombre indication that you've reached the descending slope of middl...
I am a member of the last female cohort in western civilization to accept without rancour or rebelliousness the notion that a mother's place was in the home. I was well-educated, as were all of my...
Hollywood Beach, where my husband and I spend our annual 10-day reprieve from snowbound Montreal, is the winter mecca of low-to-middlebrow Quebec francophones...