Barbara Kay columnist and writer focusing on political subjects

She gives Brazilians; “She” wants Manzilian: Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off

July 19, 2018

Donate All donations go to this article's author and this month's charity.I wasn’t able to attend Idea City in person this year, but I did participate in a segment dedicated to freedom of speech v...

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Bill C-16, or The Transgender Identity Bill, is an act of “Velvet Totalitarianism”

July 8, 2018

The philosopher Voltaire famously observed, “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” In Voltaire’s day, it was dangerous to criticize the Catholic Chu...

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Progressives support Racist Policies targeting Asian-Americans to Protect the Big Lie at the Heart of Multiculturalism

July 1, 2018

New York’s super-progressive mayor, Bill de Blasio has pledged to get rid of the Specialized High School Admissions Test, the rigorous entrance exam that has, up to now, been the sole determinan...

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In Their Own Voices: Former feminists Explain Their Rejection of Feminism

June 23, 2018

Last week in this space I reviewed the recently published, Sons of Feminism: Men have their say, an anthology of essays and narratives by men from all walks of life and provenance, describing the vari...

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In Their Own Voices: Feminism’s Invisible Victims

June 16, 2018

“Why Can’t We Hate Men?”, authored by academic feminist Suzanna D. Walters, contains many falsehoods. But Walters’ most ridiculous assertion therein was “The world has little place for femin...

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Is Motherhood Mainly Motivation for Misery? The New York Times seems to Think So

June 9, 2018

Last month, the New York Times marked the occasion of Mothers Day with “Stories of Motherhood, Told by Six Women.” Women readers had been solicited to share their experiences of becoming a mother,...

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In its Obsession with Silencing Tommy Robinson, a Pusillanimous Establishment Abandons Treasured British Ideal of ‘Fair Play’

May 31, 2018

May 25 will be marked as a day of infamy for British justice. On that day, political activist Tommy Robinson was arrested outside a Leeds courthouse, where, as a citizen journalist employing normal jo...

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Do Toronto’s Forest Hill Collegiate Institute and the Toronto District School Board have a ‘Jewish Problem’? The Optics Are not Good

May 25, 2018

I grew up in Forest Hill Village, which was, and is, a posh Toronto neighbourhood. My sisters and I, therefore, spent our formative years in the Forest Hill public school system: first South Prep (...

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When Trans fanaticism joins with Political Arrogance, Freedom of Expression is the Victim

May 15, 2018

Politics makes strange bedfellows, a truism I am presently experiencing in real time as I find myself on social media supporting TERFs – Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists – in their ...

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MP Christine Moore Reluctantly Provides NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh With a Teaching Moment in the Use of the Word “Survivor”

May 10, 2018

In a man-bites-dog version of the usual #MeToo pattern of male aggressor, female victim, NDP MP for Abitibi-Kamiskimingue Christine Moore has been accused of serious sexual misconduct. Unusual ...

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Status of Women Canada: Paints a Misleading Portrait of Muslim Women

May 1, 2018

At what point do you know that your country is, on the whole, “inclusive”? Would there have to be, say, zero hate incidents for three years before you could say you live in a tolerant c...

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Don’t Call Toronto’s Van Massacre “Misogynistic” and Here’s Why

April 25, 2018

At first, because the “van” is so often lone-wolf jihadism’s preferred agent for carnage, many Canadians assumed the Monday’s sidewalk massacre in Toronto’s Yonge-Finc...

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UK Labourites must exorcize the metastasizing anti-Semitic cancer Jeremy Corbyn has nurtured

April 19, 2018

With cruel irony, the 70th anniversary of the State of Israel, celebrated April 19, is sharing media space with the news that Jewish MPs within Jeremy Corbyn’s UK Labour Party ...

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Only a Country like Canada Could Produce a Guy (so filled with Envy) like Jesse Brown

April 9, 2018

1 The trope “Tall Poppy Syndrome” refers to the impulse in some countries, Canada amongst them, to cut down to size any cultural peer who achieves uncommonly high status and in...

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When a Man Saves a Woman: Manliness asserts itself in a French Supermarket

April 2, 2018

In a video conversation with Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, Harvard academic Harvey Mansfield recounts the story of a media appeal for comment regarding a deceased colleague. ...

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