“Beware of camels near the roads,” said a sign in Hebrew, Arabic and English as we rolled through the tawny moonscape of the Negev desert. Minutes later, as if cued, a camel appeared ne...
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For the past year, a committee has been considering the future of the ill-starred Montreal Olympic Stadium, which was built for the Olympic games Montreal hosted in 1976.
You know the building ...
Canada’s Supreme Court clarified a section of the country’s sex laws Friday, ruling that failure to disclose one’s HIV-positive status to a sexual partner won’t automatically lead to a...
Not since amateur singer Susan Boyle lit up the stage on Britain's Got Talent in 2009 has an obscure, plain, overweight white woman caused such a YouTube sensation. I refer, of course, to grandmother ...
So the famous atheist Sam Harris believes that “free will is an illusion” and every single thing we do or say is programmed to be said or done by our genes or early childhood experiences. Suc...
I have a big family — and a few of my relatives have gone on to great things. Last week, for instance, a cousin of mine retired, full of honours, from a distinguished 50-year career in child and...
Every politician hopes that events in the news will serve to maximize public awareness of their policy initiatives. But some news coincidences they would happily forego.
Yesterday Minister for Status ...
Academics I trust assure me the scourge of political correctness in the universities is on the wane. Specifically, I’ve been told by an English literature professor at one Canadian university...
It’s a good day to be old. A study in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science finds that all those stereotypes of self-centred, curmudgeonly seniors raining baleful imprecati...
I remember when the vogue for jeans that were strategically ripped at the knee and other places first appeared on upscale women, my perplexed mother could not quite get her head around the fact tha...
I don’t tweet. At one time I was tempted to start, because one feels like a bit of a dinosaur if one doesn’t. But at this moment I am happy to be an electronic Brontosaurus. Much safer,...
I think we’re going about this abortion debate the wrong way. We all know when life begins in the DNA sense: It begins at conception. The only people who have a bulletproof logical position o...
My son remembers playing with cap guns when he was young. You would put a roll of red paper with dots on it into the toy gun, and then every time you pulled the trigger, you’d hear a mighty b...
In his National Post column today, “Amish lessons in Mourning,” Jonathan Kay compares two different reactions to tragic killings of women and girls. In 1989 a lone psychotic gunm...
When I was growing up in Toronto, annual visits to my Detroit cousins were much-hyped occasions. Sometimes it meant a day off from school. Then there was the drive through the spooky Windsor-Detroi...
Alice Walker, best known as the author of the novel The Color Purple, is a longtime political activist, with a special — one might even say obsessional — fixation on Israel as the avatar o...
Apart from fundamentalists and secularists — the former with uncritical reverence, the latter with contempt — who now takes the Bible seriously as a key to our culture’s worldview...
AJuly 29 article in the Toronto Star, entitled “Ontario’s pit bull ban: The pit bull underground railroad,” compels my brisk re-entry into the debate over dangerous-dog legislatio...
Yesterday, chancing to find myself on the Sde Boker campus of Ben Gurion University in Israel’s Negev region, I dropped in on the fourth annual Drylands, Deserts & Desertification confere...
I don’t understand militant feminists. They keep saying they want to have more women in politics. You’d think they’d show respect for the minority of women who actually do make it...