What was he thinking?
The question rippled through the nation, when it was revealed last week that Chris Spence, much-admired director of education at the Toronto District School Board, had bee...
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One of my perks as a newspaper columnist is the opportunity to connect with Canadians via radio and TV. I’m a natural ham, so I get a fair amount of air time. It’s all fun and value...
Like father, like son.
Or not — as in the case of Pierre and Justin Trudeau. At least not when it comes to terrorism.
The Boston Marathon bombing is the kind of tragedy, touch...
The trial trial of accused Colorado mass killer James Holmes is in session. The courtroom is packed with media, victims’ family and friends and curious members of the public. Prosecutors are ...
Two of my favourite writers have published a book of e-mail correspondence: Distant Intimacy: A friendship in the age of the Internet.
Joseph Epstein is America’s finest essayist an...
Only in our time could a man in Roger Ebert’s condition have made it to the age of 70. I was very sorry to learn of the legendary film critic’s death, because for normal people, 70 now seems quite...
The University of Toronto, you will be edified to know, is “kicking off its annual Sexual Awareness Week” next Monday at a downtown Toronto club, the Oasis Aqua Lounge, where swingers a...
Yesterday I wrote a post here criticizing the University of Toronto’s Sexual Education Centre (SEC) for its active collaboration in a sex orgy at Toronto’s Oasis Aqua Lounge, a water-th...
When fears about Mormon Fundamentalists taking child brides sparked the British Columbia government to ask for judicial clarity on Canada’s criminal law against polygamy, a group of people in...
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that a woman accused of hiding her dead baby in a plastic bag must once again stand trial.
In a unanimous 7-0 decision Friday, the Supreme Court upheld an ...
Who’d want Christie Blatchford’s journalism beat?
Blatchford reports on court cases springing from the most pitiful and depraved corners of the human animal in extremis...
A year ago 19-year old Preston King was a light-hearted young Southern California man in love with his high school sweetheart. Her pregnancy changed their lives dramatically. But, even though t...
If you’re attending Toronto’s “Authors at Harbourfront Centre” event tonight, I recommend to your attention one Becky Masterman, debut author of the new Penguin mystery/thri...
And now: something about Theresa Spence that falls into the what-everybody-is-thinking-but-won’t-say file.
There are hunger strikes and there are hunger strikes. To me, a hunger strike is...
I laughed out loud when I read my colleague George Jonas’ Saturday column.
Background: Every year-end, newspaper columnists are asked to submit what they think are their best (or most the...
On October 26, the Montreal SPCA and Pit Stop Montreal are celebrating "National Pit Bull Awareness Day." Pit bulls may seem like an odd topic for a conservative journal, but as...
Walk down the endless hot sauce aisle at any kitchen specialty store and you may conclude, along with me, that the whole concept of hot sauce is an intrinsically masculine obsessio...
Norman Podhoretz, former editor of Commentary Magazine and intellectual doyen of the neo-conservative movement in the U.S., took the civil rights movement to task for what he perceived as its explo...
Earlier this month my esteemed colleague at the National Post, George Jonas, wrote a reminiscent column about irascible dogs.
Dogs are a suitable topic for the dog days of summer, and &nd...