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Modern women lack the tyrant's touch (National Post, May 10, 2003)

  • May 10, 2003
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...
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A mecca of sun, surf ... and spam (National Post, March 03, 2003)

  • March 3, 2003
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...
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Poets and war (National Post, March 2003)

  • March 1, 2003
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 ...
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The Leacock debate (University of Toronto, Wed. Feb. 26, 2003)

  • February 26, 2003
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...
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Book review of Norman Podhoretz's Ex-Friends (National Post, Jan. 2003)

  • January 1, 2003
    EX-FRIENDS: F...
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Of footmen and fops (National Post, Nov. 22, 2002)

  • November 22, 2002
'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...
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It was me, me, me all day long (National Post, July 24, 2002)

  • July 24, 2002
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Thank you, Spencer (National Post, May 2, 2002)

  • May 2, 2002
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...
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Confessions of the untraveller (Sept. 11, 2001)

  • September 11, 2001
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...
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School's out forever (Aug. 15, 2001)

  • August 15, 2001
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...
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Aiee! You can't make me like the opera (June 19, 2001)

  • June 19, 2001
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 ...
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The President's drinking problem (June 1, 2001)

  • June 1, 2001
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...
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Bridget Jones is a tramp (May 12, 2001)

  • May 12, 2001
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...
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So this is what passes for 'abuse'? (Feb. 13, 2001)

  • February 13, 2001
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...
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The burden of the aboriginal (May 11, 2000)

  • May 11, 2000
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 ...
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Mole returns (Book review) (National Post, December 18, 1999)

  • December 18, 1999
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...
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A bookish moment (National Post, June 19, 1999)

  • June 19, 1999
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...
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An unsung Holocause hero, until now (Book review) (National Post, June 14, 1999)

  • June 14, 1999
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...
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It's time for a Bloc Montreal (National Post, Dec. 15, 1998)

  • December 15, 1998
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...
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