I have always found it odd that the same people who feel the death penalty is barbaric often look benignly on euthanasia. And it does show that words matter. One person’s stark “state k...
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Yesterday, November 19 was International Men’s Day, a fitting moment for the announcement that Canada’s first Canadian Centre for Men and Families (CCMF) will open next spring in To...
Warning in a recent speech that access to online pornography was “corroding childhood,” British Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that Internet providers — who he sai...
In alarmed response to emerging “men’s rights awareness” groups (MRA) on a number of Canadian campuses, the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), a union body representing so...
The U.S. Supreme Court began yesterday, and continues today, hearing arguments for and against overturning California’s voter-passed gay marriage ban. In France too, the gay marriage debate r...
REAL Women of Canada, an activist group composed of socially conservative women (mainly evangelical Christians), has done admirable work in supporting traditional family values, standing up aga...
Of all Canada’s political party leaders, Pauline Marois may well be Canada’s clumsiest communicator. Almost every pronouncement she makes about language and Quebec culture — littl...
In an interview posted on the Random House website, best-selling author and University of Toronto Literary Studies professor David Gilmour stated that he is “not interested” in teac...
It’s happened again. In southeast Calgary on New Year’s Eve afternoon, three dogs savagely attacked two other dogs. Can you guess the breed of all three attacking dogs?
Pit bulls, o...
Thanks to (literally) thick skin, a Calgary-resident beagle named Arlo will recover from a recentunprovoked attack by two neighbouring pit bulls. The vet bill for stitching up Arlo’s nec...
Sixteen months ago, three McGill University Redmen football players were charged with sexual assault of a former Concordia student whom they met in a Montreal bar. The incident was described, i...
The British Columbia Supreme Court has ruled that the cancellation of a prison’s “Mother Baby Program,” which allowed female inmates to serve time with their babies, violated ...
Our population is aging. There are about 2.8 million drivers in Canada over the age of 65. Seniors account for 15% of drivers killed in traffic accidents. Seniors aren’t as disproportionately repres...
North American progressives once believed non-violent protest was the noblest course of action for citizens when government failed to ensure the common good and safety of society. Until the 196...
Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin has commissioned a report aimed at overhauling Canada’s family-law system. Its recommendations, which will be officially released later this...
In a perfect world, body size wouldn’t matter. We’d be attracted to people for their character alone. Alack and alas, our world is far from perfect. Ours is not a cover-up world eit...
Quebec’s advocates for legalized euthanasia approve of Belgium’s system, which makes accommodation for unbearable mental as well as physical pain. But as this week’s Post seri...
Twitter can be addictive. Particularly enticing are cryptic little phrases or words that point to a story that may or may not be interesting. Yesterday I was intrigued by a retweet of: “Beef strogan...
Even if you don’t speak French, you should learn the expression “risée du monde” (RDM). That means “international laughingstock” and that is rapidly what Qu...
Two scandals involving political leadership. Two ongoing media circuses. In both stories, the central figure falls from a grace that existed largely in the minds of those who elected him.
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