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Hooray for Supernanny (National Post, February 9, 2005)

  • February 9, 2005
I used to observe, with affectionate condescension, my father watching boxing on the little black and white TV in our leave-it-to-Beaver '50s-era den. He got right into it: jabbing, weaving, frowning,...
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In children's lit, orphans aplenty (National Post, February 23, 2005)

  • February 23, 2005
I await the auspicious moment my nine-month old granddaughter realizes her little wooden-paged starter books are for looking at rather than gnawing on. From there, it is but a short step to listening....
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In praise of the common parka (National Post, March 30, 2005)

  • March 30, 2005
Every spring, a true Canadian's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of next year's winter coat.In Montreal, where I live, winter often starts in early November and sometimes ends only in mid-May. We like ...
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In praise of unilingualism (National Post, May 04, 2005)

  • May 4, 2005
Is multilingualism always an unalloyed blessing? May not absolute command of a single language be preferable to mere competence in two or more?Promotions for the new movie, The Interpreter, a thriller...
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It's time to think about the children (National Post, February 5, 2005)

  • February 5, 2005
Not long ago I was seated at dinner beside an Ontario family law judge. I asked what his position was on adoption equity for gays. Would he, once gay marriage was entrenched, and in keeping with our g...
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Jonas - a 'classic liberal' (National Post, September 21, 2005)

  • September 21, 2005
There's a convention in column-writing that makes us shrink from mentioning the accomplishments of our op-ed page confreres. None of us wants to come across as a groupie in print. Instead, we send eac...
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Make him buy the cow (National Post, October 5, 2005)

  • October 5, 2005
My husband enjoys telling people how he "proposed" marriage to me. Ronny was from Montreal but working in Toronto at the time. It was 1964. I was in my last undergrad year of university. After we'd da...
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Mark Steyn, profiled by Barbara Kay, Oct. 17 (National Post, October 17, 2005)

  • October 17, 2005
This fall, Britain's Prospect and America's Foreign Policy magazines asked readers to pick their favourite "public intellectual" from a list of 100 world-renowned thinkers....
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Mob rule at Harvard (National Post, March 02, 2005)

  • March 2, 2005
The Lawrence Summers affair just isn't going away, and its continuing presence in the news is a sad commentary on academic freedom in America.As everyone by now knows, on Jan. 14 Harvard University pr...
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Parents don't always reap what they sow (National Post, November 23, 2005)

  • November 23, 2005
Some time after 9/11, on the now defunct CBC TV program counterSpin, a young law student launched a virulent diatribe against America. By a very odd coincidence, at a recent social gathering...
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Redefining perversion (National Post, December 28, 2005)

  • December 28, 2005
Christmas Eve I had a dream. In it, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) struck down the role of Santa Claus as discriminatory because of his twice-checked lists of "bad or good" and ...
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Romance, not rape (National Post, April 20, 2005)

  • April 20, 2005
From the death-saturated month of March -- Terry Schiavo and the pope 24/7 -- the media turned in April to the life cycle's happier ritual of marriage. Two weeks ago it was the nuptials of Ken and Dei...
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Sexism, stood on its head (National Post, May 25, 2005)

  • May 25, 2005
'Blonde Bombshell"! "Whore"! "Dipstick"! "Barbie!" The media Belindatron has whirled for days with outrage over sexism against poor Ms. Stronach. Never mind Belinda's opportunistic betrayal of her par...
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Tales of a Bush league outfielder (National Post, June 29, 2005)

  • June 29, 2005
KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine - As Canada Day approaches -- with American Independence Day close on its heels -- I feel distant from Prime Minister Paul Martin and very close to President George Bush. It isn't...
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Ten reasons not to fear separatism (National Post, June 01, 2005)

  • June 1, 2005
MONTREAL - The French have just voted non to the EU constitution. Current EU president Jean-Claude Juncker says countries voting No need a second referendum to obtain "the right answer." That ploy can...
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The French media connection (National Post, July 20, 2005)

  • July 20, 2005
MONTREAL - I was startled -- not in a good way -- to learn from political scientist Jean-Sebastien Rioux in a Post op ed last week that a majority of (francophone) callers to a Radio-Canada talk show ...
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The best reader a columnist could have (National Post, July 06, 2005)

  • July 6, 2005
This column, approximately my 100th, marks my second anniversary of weekly contribution to the National Post. Happy contemplation of this milestone was cut short, though, by distressing parallel news ...
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The broken windows theory of marriage (National Post, January 26, 2005)

  • January 26, 2005
Eighteen months ago I wanted to write a column about the creeping respectability of polygamy, but my then-editor considered the topic too far-out. And lo, look what is making headlin...
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The crying game (National Post, October 12, 2005)

  • October 12, 2005
If you've indulged in banned substances while in high office, or stolen the pocketable equivalent of a fully loaded Lexus RX 300, how do you restore Canadians' faith in your credibil...
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The human face of Bill 101 (National Post, April 04, 2005)

  • April 4, 2005
Last week, 28 years after the passage of Quebec's draconian language law, Bill 101, the Supreme Court of Canada definitively ended the hopes of francophone Quebec families seeking to educate their chi...
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