MONTREAL - My federal riding is Westmount-Ville-Marie, a lengthy east-west strip comprising most of Montreal's downtown core, including three universities, plus the demergered city of We...
Barbara Kay, National Post Published: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 Occasionally, family members or friends ask me to give them advice. When I say "occasionally," though, I&#...
Traditionally minded Canadians and their libertine counterparts resemble dysfunctional lovers: The traditionalists' needs go unfulfilled, while their litigious bedmates selfishly achieve...
MONTREAL - As a former teacher at Dawson College who lives only eight blocks from the scene of last Wednesday's mayhem, I followed developing news with troubled fascination, grateful tha...
  MONTREAL - In his Montreal Gazette column yesterday, Don MacPherson projected a worrying Quebec trend with startling candour: "It's finally becoming respectable again to ...
MONTREAL - 'I'm in love," my daughter Joanne, whose maternity leave is almost over, sighed down the telephone yesterday. "Ah!" I twigged immediately, knowing this ...
MONTREAL - Just when the newly designed Maclean's seemed finally to have shucked all the turgid remnants of its former politically correct image, the Nov. 6 issue reverted to type on the...
The escalating furor over the Danish cartoons depicting Muhammad has morphed from questions of free speech and cultural insensitivity into a clash of two civilizations, both of which honour ...
REHOVOT, Israel - My last trip to Israel was in July, when Tel Aviv is punishingly hot. The landscape was brown and thirsty-looking. One never stepped out of doors -- and never for long in a...
TORONTO - If you live in Toronto, you may have noticed the Bathurst Street billboards sponsored by Jewish Women International Canada (JWIC). They all display the same emotive ad, featuring a...
‘We miss him”, my companion says with understated sadness. “We feel orphaned.”   I am interviewing Freddy Eytan, polyglot Israeli journalist, diplomat, profe...
French is an exquisite language. The French are an articulate people. So why do the French always take to the streets rather than simply exchange views on prospective political or economic c...