Given the timing, with a provincial election campaign in progress, and months of tension surrounding the PQ’s proposed Charter of Values that would ban religious accessories in public ins...
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November 9-15 is Awareness for Victims of Canine Attack (AVOCA) week. As if to mark the occasion – in the most negative way possible – the city of Sherbrooke, Quebec has announced t...
I’m the early bird in my household and get to the newspapers first. Every day my husband comes downstairs with the same question on his lips: “Any new polls?” He’s nervo...
Gay Quebec TV celebrity Joël Legendre is bruiting the news that he and his partner are expectant dads of twin girls, thanks to the generosity of the Quebec government, which funded the men...
In 1841 Scottish journalist Charles Mackay published a history of popular folly called Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, a rather sensationalistic overview of the irrat...
In today’s edition of the Post, there is a very thoughtful and serious discussion of whether the phenomena of “rape culture” even exists. It will no doubt receive the usual st...
A few months ago, bowing to pressure from the Canadian Bar Association, the federal government slammed the door shut on a private member’s bill advancing shared parenting as the default i...
Even in distant Montreal, I can almost hear the great whoosh of relief emanating from Alberta’s Progressive Conservative party caucus at former Premier Alison Redford’s announ...
A crisis at Rolling Stone magazine is a cautionary tale of the harm done to journalism when reporters abandon objectivity and due diligence in order to further a political agenda.
Last mo...
Prince William and Her Royal Highness Kate are in the U.S. for a few days, fitting other activities around a conference in Washington, where the prince spoke Monday on the illegal wildlife trade – a...
If you visit St. Petersburg and tour some of the tsarist palaces therein, you may, like me a few years ago, experience conflicting responses: wonderment at the opulence and scale of the palaces...
MOSCOW — In its essentials — well-appointed staterooms, excellent food and warmly attentive staff — river cruising is much like ocea...
My Russian mother-in-law, Maryka, never lived in Russia — she was born in Odessa, spent decades in China, and came post-war to Canada — but culturally speaking, she was and remained...
It’s happening again. Yet another Canadian university is making life extremely difficult for a group that brings awareness of men’s issues to institutions of higher learning.
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Dog behaviourist Ray Coppinger, a revered pioneer in the field of canine cognition, and a rugged outdoorsman whose dogs worked for their keep, has no use for wussy urbanites who treat dogs as f...
I have no childhood recollection of being escorted by a parent to or from the public school that was a short walk from our Toronto home. I only remember walking with my sister, with other kids,...
By any standard, 14-year old Gracie Attard, an English girl from the tiny Maltese island of Gozo, is an extraordinary child: bright, charming, poised, with ambitions for a career in medicine. She has ...
In 2009 lesbian Jennifer Schreiner bore a baby girl with the aid of sperm from a certain William Marotta. In 2012 the Kansas Department for Children and Families sought to have Marotta declared the fa...
Tomorrow, May 27, will feature the conclusion of parliamentary debate on Conservative MP Maurice Vellacott’s private member’s Bill C-560, which proposes an amendment to Canada&rsquo...
During his first presidential campaign, Barack Obama spoke publicly about fatherlessness in black communities. “[Black men] have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead...