Ars longa, vita brevis. Life is short, but art is long.
That was then, when artists stuck to their calling, and to their diverse habitats of stage, screen and study. Now ...
National Post
National Post
The Leacock Debate
Wed., Feb. 26, 2003
Hart House, University of Toronto
The motion: A woman's proper place is in the kitchen
For the affirmative side, Barbara Kay
It is in...
'Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on Earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral respon...
Thank you, Spencer
A friend of my mother's with a terror for a son became my anti-role-model for motherhood. My children, I vowed, would learn good manners
Barb...
The summer travel season is over. My friends are bubbling over with memories of elephantine turtles and Mayan ruins. I asked one returnee from Bariloche, Argentina what i...
School's out forever
An increasing number of North American children -- possibly more than one million Americans and up to 80,000 Canadians -- are being educated at home a...
Barbara Kay
National Post
I hate opera. I have tried it often enough to know for sure. Opera lovers -- like golfing nuts -- keep telling me I will "develop a ...
Barbara Kay
National Post
Jenna and Barbara Bush, twin daughters of the U.S. President, are in trouble because of alcohol, Jenna for the second time. They all...
Bridget Jones is the newest star in Hollywood's galaxy of lovable ditzy dames.
Some reviewers dwell on actor Renee Zellweger's spunk in gaining 20 pounds for the role an...
A group called the Association for Genital Integrity has
added its voice to the anti-circumcision chorus. It wants to have
the circumcision of boys banned on the grounds that the practice
viola...
Chief Phil Fontaine released a quiverful of poisoned arrows in is fierce reaction
to the National Post's recent editorial advocating native assimilation was the
century's most ...
By Sue Townsend
Michael Joseph, 416 pp., $32.99
He's back! Now 30, with baldness and fluctuating penis function
plaguing him instead of acne, Adrian Mole is essential...
By Barbara Kay
It was 1952, and I was a nine-year-old tomboy. I loved
reading -- mostly cowboy comics, or dog and horse stories. Suddenly,
I became very sick with nep...
By Barbara Kay
Foley: The Spy Who Saved 10,000 Jews
By Michael Smith
(Hodder & Stoughton, 352 pages, $44.95)
Thanks to Michael Smith, an intelli...
It's time for a Bloc Montreal
By Barbara Kay
Can you imagine an Ontario provincial election campaign in
which none of the leadership candidates raise issues concern...