MONTREAL - Pity Sorya Ingrid Gaulin. Her role as VP of Public Relations at Indigo Books and Music demanded she confront the wrathful public face of North America's most formidable conser...
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Two weeks ago, I proposed that Canada follow France in banning religious accessories from our public schools. I argued that all religious costume on children is a needless social distraction...
Last week, while touring the Middle East and India, Prince Charles and Camilla visited an organic farm in the Punjab. Clearly in his element, Charles engaged his hosts with gusto, closely qu...
I attended the National Post's lively 8th anniversary party in Toronto last month. Alas, the band was far too loud for my oldie taste. Mindful of encroaching hearing loss, I left early w...
It would appear that Pope Benedict XVI intends to reinvigorate the beleaguered (Tridentine) Latin mass, which in the late '60s was almost universally replaced by individual vernacular la...
Leave religion out of recruiting
Barbara Kay, National Post
Published: Wednesday, October 04, 2006
In the 1950s, when Israel was a fledgling state, my friends and I used to (half...
MONTREAL - Normally, when a dual-passport Canadian accidentally perishes in the chaos of war abroad, sympathy is duly expressed, and the news treadmill pushes on. But when almost an entire C...
Seventeen years ago today Marc Lepine killed 14 women and himself at the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal in Canada's worst mass murder. From this human tragedy of no inherent political s...
"I believe children have the right to a mother and a father, and preferably their biological parents." These words -- I agree with them, and so do the UN Conventions of the Child -...
MONTREAL - Last week, while being buffed for an interview on a French-language TV talk show, I observed a quartet of young Muslim women trooping in for their touch-ups. They were amateur mod...
An intriguing article in the Post's April 28 Body and Health section explored the properties of asexuality (not to be confused with celibacy, the voluntary repression of natural urges), ...
Comes Christmas, columnists rummage through their metaphorical larders for a hidden morsel of topical originality to tempt readers' jaded palates.
This year, my musings are inspired ...
In a now-infamous government-funded research paper revealed last week, three law professors from Queen's University argue that the criminal status of polygamy serves no useful purpose. L...
My Aug. 9 column, "The Rise of Quebecistan," has become a focus for great controversy in Quebec. In the past week, I have been interviewed by numerous radio stations, both French a...
Response to Criticism from Librarian regarding column of
November 01,2006
On the Post's Nov. 11 Letters page, Brenda Roberts, Ottawa Pubic Library librarian, accused me of "inte...
Until August, my name was completely unknown to most of Quebec's francophones. On Aug. 9, that all changed with my National Post column titled "The Rise of Quebecistan." Sudden...
Schism at the salon
Barbara Kay, National Post
Published: Wednesday, August 02, 2006
A few months ago, I was charmed by an exchange via column and letters to the editor by libertar...
We have heard the story before. The names change, the province changes, the particulars of the custody case change, the age of the dead child changes, but some things stay the same when a mo...
I'm a judgmental sort of person, not the kind you'd go to for unconditional love (unless you were one of my three adorable grandchildren). Impatient enough as a real parent, I think ...
If, like me, you find the world of the soi-disant Humanities to be a rich source of unintended humour, read on.
During this week's Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at T...