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National Post
National Post
Radio-Canada is just not that into Israel. No matter how many complaints are levelled at it for bias in reporting on the Middle East, it doesn’t seem to make an impression that involves m...
No one in government can use ignorance as an excuse for tolerating Canada’s dysfunctional legal system: Several recent reports have laid the problem bare.
Last April, the federal governme...
Novelists don’t care if they ever write a newspaper column, but many journalists long to tap their creative juices in novel-writing.
In 1995 I wrote a novel. Euphoric, I handed it over to...
An unidentified British couple will be travelling to Mumbai, India next March to pick up some valuable merchandise they ordered a while ago: their four biological newborn babies.
The 30-s...
There is no more ignominious epitaph on a public policy’s tombstone than “It seemed like a good idea at the time.” When residential schools were first mooted, they probably made e...
Tennis champion Serena Williams is one tough cookie, and she has on her when she’s angry what my mother would have called a “mouth.” I am thinking of the time at the 2009 U.S....
New Jersey resident Gitel Dodelson is a 25-year old Orthodox Jewish woman and new mother. Recently separated from her husband of 10 months, she wrote candidly about her marriage breakdown in th...
Death has always preoccupied me. The same questions arise, unbidden, sometimes several times a day: When, where, how will I die? I’m not made gloomy by this tic. It keeps my ego in check....
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that offences to the Criminal Code around prostitution are unconstitutional, reversing a 1990 SCC ruling stating that elimination of prostitution through l...
The great Victorian novelist Charles Dickens was doubly traumatized in early youth by a feckless father and a harsh social system with scant appreciation for children’s tender psyches.
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In his Saturday National Post column, Rex Murphy considers the case of long-time student Arun Smith, who last week enjoyed his 15 minutes of media fame for vandalizing a message board at Ottawa&rsq...
There’s a reason corporations spend a fortune on their logos. “Branding” that captivates the public with instant, sympathetic recognition is the holy grail of merchandising.
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Typically for my generation, I married young and produced two children in my twenties. The fertility industry was then in its infancy; actual fertility specialists were rare medical birds.
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A few months ago, I appeared on a French language talk show as part of a diverse panel of politicians, aesthetes and chattering-class types to give our two-cents’ worth on Quebec political is...
As was widely reported last month, a media study has found that women in a wide spectrum of Western countries are significantly less knowledgeable than men about current affairs and politics. I...
It’s because of people like me that the antiquarian book trade is in peril.
I’m a lifelong reader. During the Golden Age of used books – mainly paperbacks – from t...
Embarrassed by a “frosh week” gone awry, administrations and student governments at St. Mary’s University in Halifax (SMU) and the University of British Columbia (UBC) have been s...
A young friend of mine took her bruised toddler to the hospital as a precaution after a fall down some stairs. All was well, but she nervously joked, “I was afraid the doctor might call the C...
According to a woman friend of mine who is a collector of rare books, she is quite an anomaly in her trade. She estimates that 99% of used and rare book collectors are men.
In a finding s...