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Barbara Kay: I know a misogynistic sports policy when I see it

  • November 7, 2020
Fair, safe and inclusive sport requires stratification. Combat sports delineate by weight class. Youth sports stratify by chronological age. And, traditionally, all sports, including the Paralympics, ...
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Barbara Kay: Transgender sports policies have thrown fair play out the window

  • October 23, 2020
Reverence for sport’s first principle — fair play — unites people across the globe. Hell hath no fury like sport enthusiasts witnessing systemic cheating. Speaking of which: That bur...
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Barbara Kay: From free society to fear society in the halls of higher learning

  • July 14, 2020
My editor, a man in his prime, recently tweeted bemusement that his older readers often preface their emails to him with allusions to their age (“as a 75-year old man …” “I&rs...
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Barbara Kay: Learn from the best while you can

  • June 25, 2020
Last week — for another publication — I recounted the story of Tomas Hudlicky, a Brock University professor of organic chemistry who has endured an in-house “swarming” by ...
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Barbara Kay: U of A professor holds the line on free expression

  • June 9, 2020
Kathleen Lowrey, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Alberta, ascribes much of her intellectual formation to Marxism and radical feminism. Not, I think my regular readers would...
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Barbara Kay: Innovative camps look to save the summer

  • May 28, 2020
In Ontario and Quebec, day camps have permission to open, but not sleepaway camps. This will come as a blow to many kids who have for months have had to forgo seeing their friends and participating...
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Barbara Kay on COVID-19: We have to get the kids back to playing sports again

  • May 13, 2020
As a grandparent who hasn’t had physical contact with my five granddaughters since mid-March, I’m naturally eager to see the end of the lockdown. But if I can only receive that benefit ...
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Barbara Kay: A coronavirus report card for Ontario and Quebec schools

  • May 5, 2020
In last week’s column, I illustrated, via the experiences of two families, the dramatic difference in responses to school closures in Quebec between the public and independent schools. The privat...
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Barbara Kay: An eye-opening tale of two school systems during the COVID-19 crisis

  • April 28, 2020
A clever tweet: “We are not all in the same boat. We are all in the same storm.” So true. Pandemic privilege comes in many forms. One that preoccupies me is the disparity in parental bu...
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Barbara Kay on COVID-19: The country house pandemic problem

  • April 22, 2020
MONTREAL — On April 1, Premier François Legault told Quebecers they should avoid all “non-essential” travel around the province. That meant Montrealers should not be going ...
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Barbara Kay on COVI-19: The country house pandemic problem

  • April 22, 2020
MONTREAL — On April 1, Premier François Legault told Quebecers they should avoid all “non-essential” travel around the province. That meant Montrealers should not be going ...
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Barbara Kay: Is it any wonder Americans are losing trust in their institutions?

  • April 14, 2020
In the summer of 2018, Donald Trump was enjoying himself in Florida, immersed in his favourite activity, a rally for Donald Trump. CNN reporter Jim Acosta, an aggressive critic Trump loves to bait,...
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Barbara Kay on the COVID-19 lockdown: You can’t go to the theatre, so it’s coming to you

  • April 7, 2020
In 1984, George Orwell’s iconic 1949 novel about a future totalitarian dystopia, everyone had a “telescreen.” It couldn’t be turned off, so people were forced to watch Big B...
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Barbara Kay: Where is the GG during Canada’s coronavirus crisis?

  • April 1, 2020
I’m a monarchist. That was the norm I grew up with. But I recognize I’m a dying breed in Canada. The monarchy still serves a vital purpose in the United Kingdom, but it has become a ves...
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Barbara Kay: Our small community, united, is getting through this as best we can

  • March 18, 2020
We live in a nice house on a pleasant street. What we particularly like about our neighbourhood is the eclecticism in the demographic. There is no uniformity in the house sizes, so there are cozy e...
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Barbara Kay: Another one bites the dust — Woody Allen the latest victim of cancel culture

  • March 10, 2020
Hachette Book Group (HBG) announced last week that it had cancelled its scheduled April publication of 84-year-old film director Woody Allen’s memoir, “Apropos of Nothing.”The decisio...
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Barbara Kay: A closer look at the sad, but improvable, lives of ‘pickup artists’

  • March 5, 2020
Before there was Harvey Weinstein, there was Daryush Valizadeh — more commonly known as “Roosh V” — a guru in what is known as the “seduction community” for his ...
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Barbara Kay: Social conservatives need to find common ground

  • February 26, 2020
Leslyn Lewis is an interesting newcomer to the race for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada. Superficially, she’s a contemporary dream candidate: a female black immigrant and a...
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Barbara Kay: The Canadian Forces’ failed recruitment policy

  • February 18, 2020
In 1997, when women comprised 14 per cent of the Canadian Forces, Gen. Maurice Baril argued that a robust recruitment campaign was all that was necessary to boost female membership to 28 per cent b...
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Barbara Kay: Christie reached readers’ hearts, minds and guts. That’s why they loved her

  • February 12, 2020
When you write regularly for a newspaper, people assume you know your colleagues personally. Christie Blatchford’s fans would ask me, “What’s she like in person?” I had to e...
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