Universities must be careful in the awarding of honorary doctorates. What seems like a safe choice at the time can come back to haunt a university later. Sometimes even five minutes later.
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One of my most vivid teenage memories has me seated with my sisters and parents at the dinner table in the mid-1950s. We were calmly discussing the pros and cons of building a well-stocked bomb...
In my day, it was well understood (and true) that the best place to snap up excellent husband material was at university.
So it mattered that I went to university, but it didn’t mat...
National character was on full display this week in Britain and France on the issue of self-presentation of women in public. In England Judge Peter Murphy ruled that a Muslim woman defendant co...
Earlier this year, the Supreme Court of Canada stayed proceedings against Nicole Doucet, who sought to hire at least one hit-man to kill her then-husband, Mike Ryan. Eight of the nine Just...
When he was alive, little Jeffrey Baldwin was surrounded by adults. If a single one of them had demonstrated that they cared even a little bit about him, his life could have been saved.
T...
The more I read, the more bizarre it got.
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled this week on a case where an allegation of spousal abuse – never substantiated – is the heart of a troubl...
It’s been many years since anti-Semitic motifs — like cartoons showing money-obsessed Jews lusting after power — have been part of mainstream culture here in North America. Yet in...
For 27 years, we owned a modest country house – sounds grander than “cottage,” but that’s what anglo-Quebecers call their vacation homes – near the Laurentian Mountain...
Normally, on Remembrance Day, my thoughts are with Canada’s fallen soldiers. This year, having just seen the documentary film, Broken Soldiers, I find myself brooding over war’s suf...
A 2011 Environics poll found that 92% of respondents opposed sex-selective abortion on moral grounds, and a January 2012 Angus Reid poll found about two-thirds of respondents (about half of the...
Twenty years ago Earl Silverman of Calgary, fleeing his home to escape violence from his abusive wife, had no refuge to take shelter in. There were plenty of shelters for women victims of domestic ...
I felt sympathy for federal minister for industry James Moore the other day, when he uttered those fateful words to a Vancouver radio reporter: “Is it my job to feed my neighbour&rsq...
Last week, an anonymous male Toronto college student male created a Facebook page in which he described a sexual adventure with a girl so drunk “she could barely walk.” The narrator...
When ideology takes up the brain space normally reserved for reason and the golden principle of equality under the law, the very best minds can go AWOL.
That seems to be the case with Uni...
Thanks to Bill 101, Quebec’s 1977 Charter of the French language, no language in the world is as regulated as French is in Quebec.
But Pauline Marois’ young minority PQ government w...
Jean-François Lisée, the Parti Québécois minister tasked with improving his government’s relations with English-speaking Quebecers, spoke Sunday at a closed-sessio...
When the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage recently was tasked with reviewing the way Canadian history is taught to children, Quebec’s politicians and pedagogical mandarins immediat...
Can a nation have its culture and eat it too? That, it seems to me, is the question at the heart of the debate over the confusing Charter of Quebec Values.
As many commentators — in...
Quite a lot of printer’s ink has been consumed in the last few months on the iniquities inherent in Quebec’s proposed Bill 14, a substantial revision of Bill 101, Quebec’s 197...