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Barbara Kay: Coerced adoptions reflected the culture of the times

  • April 20, 2012
Three churches so far have launched an internal investigation of their historic maternity home practices, following hard on the heels of an in-depth investigation by the National Post on coerced ad...
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Barbara Kay: Confronting abortion, ‘the defining moral conflict of our epoch’

  • May 9, 2012
Canada is the only developed country in the world with no abortion law. This political vacuum suits liberals and libertarians, but discomfits many other Canadians. Since the issue is being strenuou...
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Barbara Kay: Don’t blame the photographer for New York Post death photo

  • December 6, 2012
I hate to drive because I have bad parking karma, so I use public transportation regularly. I also have a phobia about being pushed onto the subway tracks, so while waiting for trains, I always stand ...
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Barbara Kay: Higher education needs a rethink

  • June 6, 2012
Nobody can predict the end game in the never-ending Quebec protest against tuition hikes. It can’t be good either way: frozen tuition means the province is being run by mobs; tuition hikes wi...
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Barbara Kay: How Larry Hagman and Dallas won our hearts — and the Cold War

  • December 5, 2012
The Shah of Iran had just died. Russia was hosting the Olympics. Linda Ronstadt was starring in The Pirates of Penzance. Sony had just come out with a cute new little gadget called a “Walkman...
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Barbara Kay: If this is war, the millennials don’t have a chance

  • May 30, 2012
We were dining at a good bistro. The waiter — early 20s — accidentally knocked a glass of water onto my lap. Suppressing annoyance, I was summoning a gracious smile to acknowledge his f...
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Barbara Kay: In Marois’ Montreal, the sound of English becomes an offence

  • September 28, 2012
I have lived in Montreal for almost 50 years. I arrived as a young bride just when the Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ) was beginning its campaign of terror in the service of an independent Quebe...
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Barbara Kay: India should be insulted by filmdom’s worst exotic cliched film script

  • June 9, 2012
Showcasing a stellar cast of Britain’s finest seasoned actors, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel had all the makings of a light, feel-good entertainment about quirky characters in a novel situat...
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Barbara Kay: Jenna Talackova goes double dipping in the theatre of gender politics

  • May 21, 2012
If you are interested in the results of beauty pageants – and in this day and age, who is left that is? – you will be interested to know that Jenna Talackova failed in her bid to win th...
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Barbara Kay: Jimmy Savile’s world

  • October 31, 2012
Arrests are piling up higgledy-piggledy in the proliferating posthumous investigation of longtime BBC entertainer and pedophile Jimmy Savile (1926-2011). The latest suspects include a “glam r...
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Barbara Kay: Looking for mother’s helper, at least 15 years old, able to swim

  • July 25, 2012
When my children were toddlers, I advertised for a mother’s helper (as we then called them) who could provide me with summer-long help, stipulating that candidates must be at least 15 and abl...
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Barbara Kay: Manitoba’s domestic violence blip no cause to panic

  • March 26, 2012
Headline in the Winnipeg Free Press: “Domestic killings in spotlight.” That’s a grabber. Are Manitoba women at more risk of violence than they have been in the past? According to this story...
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Barbara Kay: Manliness still matters

  • September 19, 2012
Years ago, researching for a column on women in the military, I interviewed a top military historian who approved of women serving in every military role but combat operations. He supported his...
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Barbara Kay: McGuinty Liberals put ‘top secret’ label on abortion figures

  • June 5, 2012
Six months ago an amendment was passed to Ontario’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA). It was folded in like whipped egg white to a cake batter, the batter being Bill ...
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Barbara Kay: Merah may have hunted alone, but he was no lone wolf

  • March 26, 2012
In the immediate aftermath of the recent bloodbath executed by Mohamed Merah in Toulouse, leaving three French paratroopers, a Jewish teacher, his two sons and another Jewish child dead, a number o...
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Barbara Kay: Michael Ignatieff hands Quebec separatists an unexpected gift

  • April 24, 2012
In February, Justin Trudeau shocked Canadians when he told a Radio-Canada interviewer that if the Canadian government put any constraints on abortion or repealed gay marriage, “maybe I would th...
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Barbara Kay: Mothers who abandon or kill their infants have a friend in the courts

  • April 2, 2012
In May of 2007, April Halkett gave birth to a baby boy at the Prince Albert, Saskatchewan Wal-Mart and walked out alone. The baby was found shortly afterward, and was saved. Charged with the crime ...
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Barbara Kay: Nature, not government, is why women put families first

  • June 29, 2012
It’s the problem that won’t go away for professionally successful mothers: “work-life balance.” The more they achieve in their careers, the more guilt and tension they feel abo...
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Barbara Kay: Neglect compounds Montreal’s insult to Mordecai Richler

  • July 25, 2012
Say what you will about Mordecai Richler – and much has been said, with love, hate and everything in between – he was a gifted writer of international status and renown. One critic called him...
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Barbara Kay: Neither sex has a monopoly on victimization

  • October 2, 2012
In the Letters section today, Daniela Lobo of Toronto, responding to my defence of Rona Ambrose’s affirmative vote for Motion 312, which would permit a discussion on when human life begins, p...
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