With dogs lately in my thoughts, I recently reread some beloved childhood stories: Lad: A Dog, by Albert Payson Terhune, then Jack London’s Call of the Wild and White Fang.
London’s...
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Nobody doubts the sincerity of Barack Obama’s recent gay-marriage endorsement. But this usually cautious politician’s definitive self-outing is politically puzzling. After all, ordinary...
This Saturday in Tucson, Arizona, Pit Bull Awareness Day will commemorate the victims of dangerous dog attacks. It will be a heartfelt, but modest affair. Those sympathetic to the (mostly) children...
Since the dawn of the modern pro-choice movement, liberal activists have done their best to equate abortion-on-demand with women’s rights. Make access to abortion easier, the theory goes, and...
Marni Soupcoff says the chuckwagon races at the Calgary Stampede should be cancelled because the latest accident, in which three horses died, prove that the sport is just too inherently risky to th...
As with 9/11, the magnitude of the Titanic tragedy cannot be overstated. Both the Twin Towers and the Titanic were unprecedented testimonials to their respective eras’ wealth and power. Both ...
I’m so old, I remember when vampires were scary. I would never have predicted they would quit their lugubrious fortresses in Transylvania to become the cynosure of teenage girls’ romant...
Members of the Jewish Defence League protest a public forum on Israel Apartheid in Toronto last year.
You've all heard of "Israel Apartheid Week." But how about Israel P...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Apr. 23, 2012 | Last Updated: Apr. 23, 2012 2:02 AM ET
Three churches so far have launched an internal investigation of their histor...
Montreal businessman Peter Sergakis says it’s time to get serious about homelessness. After chasing some “squeegee kids” away from his restaurant, he’s advocating more services...
A thought experiment. You’re a jury member in a courtroom trial that will decide whether the defendant – man-made global warming advocacy – is, as it claims to be, a disintere...
On Boxing Day, an unlucky Toronto man, Oscar Bartholomew, died in police custody while visiting his native country of Grenada. Waiting for his wife to use the washroom in a police station, Barth...
The Vladimir Schreiber Institute of Mathematics at Tel-Aviv University.
George Orwell once said, “England is the only great nation whose intellectuals are ashamed of their country.&rd...
Mohamed Merah is captured in this frame grab from a video broadcast by a French television station.
In the immediate aftermath of the recent bloodbath executed by Mohamed ...
Equal shared parenting is objectively fair to both sexes and to children, and thus a win-win-win.
Two weeks ago the U.K. government announced its intention to amend the 1989 Children&rs...
Alexandra Roach plays a young Margaret Thatcher, who's "appointments were based on who was good for Britain, not who was good for women."
“Was the Iron Lady good for...
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
In her columns on subjects ranging from Canadian literature to our educational and legal systems' bias against boys and men to honour kil...
Before you act, imagine what your son or daughter will think about your actions.
In a recent column about gossip, I confessed to an enthusiasm for consuming and dispensing the stuff, ...
It’s not every day a man has a baby. Which is why Neil Hope and “his” baby are in the news. Neil Hope, now 37, is a transsexual female who underwent gender-reassignment surger...
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 b...