When Marc Lepine killed 14 women at the École Polytechnique in Montreal in 1989, his calculated separation of the sexes before beginning the massacre of the women — all comple...
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Well, here we go again. Another controversial plan for assisted suicide – not surprisingly in Belgium, as so often in the past – and a first for a couple seeking an exit from life t...
Quebec’s euthanasia law, Bill C-52, has now passed. My side lost that battle. Did we lose “fair and square” though? I personally felt that the rhetorical quality of public dis...
I have five granddaughters. The older ones can read, and my oldest, though pre-adolescent, actually scans the newspapers at times. Even if she didn’t, how could she fail to be aware by osmosis alone...
Race is the great cultural subject of our time. The literature of former colonies and mother countries is awash in reflection — angry, guilty, grieving, optimistic, pessimistic — on blacks and whi...
It’s not often that my daughter pleads with me to write something about some or other cultural phenomenon. But this week she sent me a Youtube video, and told me I had to write about...
Is a racism-free America a utopian dream? The recent dystopian mayhem of Ferguson, Missouri would seem to support such a pessimistic view of race relations. At times like these, with the focus ...
The Kahnawake Mohawk council has a law that bans all “mixed race” couples from living on its Montreal-area territory. Violation of the policy may result in eviction and/or the cutti...
I was asked for an election prediction in a media interview Monday afternoon. Based solely on an intuition that francophone Quebecers were in a punitive mood after being treated as dummies for ...
In the past, television ad-makers rarely have dared make fun of moms. But dads usually have been seen as fair game for satirical commercials portraying fathers as immature slovens or domestic i...
It’s like a volcano. The rumbles go on for weeks, months, even years. But when the volcano finally erupts, the lava flow is surprisingly swift and can mean sudden death for anyone in its ...
In 1985, with feminism still at its height, U.S. sociologist Lenore Weitzman published a book, The Divorce Revolution, in which she claimed to have analyzed a sample of Los Angeles-area divorce...
There are days when I think the entire media has been taken over by the satirical publication, The Onion, whose hilarious riffs on cultural and political trends skewer political correctness wit...
It’s award season in Hollywood, that time of year when one’s thoughts turn to American films and the cultural messages they convey.
Three 2013 film hits, all featuring quintes...
My grandchildren like to put on “shows” for the grown-ups when they are all together. I’m afraid they are rather lame, as the grandchildren with actual talent are too shy to s...
In an April 30 article, “Climate change and health: Extreme heat a ‘silent’ killer,” Globe and Mail reporter Karen McColl cites the claim of an allegedly expert source, ...
The late Mary Daly, a militant feminist, was a long-time academic at Jesuit-run Boston College. She was a revered icon in the feminist movement, but largely unknown to the general public until,...
Infertility professionals are divided over the imposition of a “weight cutoff” for those seeking in-vitro fertilization (IVF). Some wonder if denying the treatment to severely obese...
On Sunday, “Cali,”an Ottawa toddler, was rushed to hospital after being mauled by a dog. The Ottawa Paramedic Service described the wounds as “multiple, severe lacerations to the ...
On Scotland’s referendum day last week, observers from Spain’s northeastern secessionist region of Catalonia, Italy’s German-speaking Sud-Tirol (seeking reunion with Austria),...