Yesterday, 13 Palestinian children from Gaza and the West Bank arrived at Israel’s Wolfson Medical Center in Holon (near Tel Aviv) to undergo life-saving heart operations. After thei...
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National Post
If there’s one thing that irritates an ideologue, it’s when reality does not conform to cherished theories. I daresay many feminists are grinding their teeth over Janay Rice’s...
Terrorism is usually some men’s appalling idea of heroism, and we’re not quite sure what or how to think about women who want in on the action. Most of us want to believe wome...
On the issue of abortion, Justin Trudeau has always been pro-choice. But last week we were informed that he is now “resolutely” pro-choice.
Practically speaking, ...
MP Maurice Vellacott’s child-custody reform proposal, Bill C-560, is coming up for second reading on May 7. The private member’s bill aims to reduce incentives for family-law litiga...
At a 2014 Annual General Meeting (AGM) last week, Ryerson University’s student union joined a number of other provincial student unions — 10, according to organizers — in voti...
A few years ago I took part in a charity event at which the evening’s entertainment was a comic debate, the resolution being, “The shorter man is the better man.” I was a...
U.S. writer Gary Shteyngart’s latest book is a memoir called “Little Failure.” But the title speaks to what the writer felt as an immigrant child, not to the roaring success h...
Religion, medical science and the best interests of children can make a hot-potato stew. What do you do, for example, when scientifically ignorant parents believe prayers will be more efficacio...
A new Forum Research telephone survey of 1,658 concludes that one in five women have been raped or sexually assaulted. Yet that widely contested figure is still not good enough for radical femi...
It is probably a good thing that 66-year old UK judge, Mary Jane Mowat, has just retired from Oxford Crown Court. Her new status permits her to remain serenely indifferent to the torrent o...
In his response to a boycott resolution endorsed by the 5,000-member American Studies Association (ASA) against Israel’s institutes of higher learning, Alan Dershowitz recalled a notoriou...
It is no crime in Canada for adults to sell sexual services to other adults. Nobody disputes that.
However, what has long been problematic are prostitution’s several core related cr...
Correctional Service Canada (CSC) announced Wednesday that it is cutting its very modest annual funding ($650,000) for CoSA – Circles of Support and Accountability. CoSA is a group of mos...
The pit bull that mauled 14-month old Ottawa baby Cali Leclair on the weekend, causing severe damage to her face, was put down on Monday. The dog had bitten another baby previously and should h...
In democratic countries, tribalism cloaked as a respectable political party can’t hope to bend the population to its will by reason. The only way tribal leaders can get themselves voted i...
Although it can hardly have come as a surprise to her adoring readers, the great British crime writer, P.D. James (the initials stand for Phyllis Dorothy, I have learned for the first time, as ...
When a child is critically ill, who has the final word on treatment – both the “if” and the “what” regarding treatment – when doctors and parents disagree? I...
In the annals of Canadian crime, the sexually sadistic murderers Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka stand out for the extraordinary horror they evoked in the nation.
Time has not dimmed that...
Nobody expected Pauline Marois to keep her job as PQ leader after the monumental defeat she presided over on April 7, but it seemed a bit rich for three leadership contenders to be auditioning ...