While perusing my morning newspaper today, I was surprised to learn, from an article about the findings of a newly published study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, that I am a...
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The documentary film “Honor Diaries” was previewed in Chicago in October, but this month marked its global release. Its Canadian premier took place in Ottawa on Monday to a full hou...
So far the issue of assisted suicide has been framed in polar terms. You’re for it or you’re against it. It’s a human right or it isn’t a human right. It’s a sin o...
When his father spontaneously uttered the f-word in the House of Commons many years ago, it was considered too shocking to be repeated in the media and was sanitized as “fuddle duddle.&rd...
Happy 50th birthday to the Free Speech Movement.
Those of us who were young adults at the time well remember the galvanizing effect on students everywhere of those culturally game-changin...
It’s not often that we Canadians get to see a show trial in progress. But we’re watching one now — namely, the public hearings on the Quebec government’s proposed Bill 6...
By their attitude to Woody Allen and his alleged molestation of his adopted daughter Dylan as a child shall ye know them. The battle lines have been drawn. On one side, we have those with no pe...
The issues that preoccupy the politically engaged in other provinces — the economy, infrastructure, public services — are incidental beside the only question that seems to matter to...
According to Eizabeth Kübler-Ross’s famous thesis, the moribund experience five cognitive stages from the moment they learn they are dying to death itself. On Sunday, I came to under...
As the twig is bent, so grows the tree. In every religious faith, in every ideology, leaders know that the surest route to mass compliance and unshakable faith is through the children. Get &lsq...
I recently threw a holiday party for some of my colleagues in journalism, including some young up-and-comers. Among them was a couple I’ve known for some years now, who happily informed m...
Alarmed by a serious potential loss of revenue through threatened economic boycotts by tourists and companies, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer vetoed a bill last week that would have permitted busi...
The sexual revolution seems to be running out of steam in the West.
The Post’s September 11 editorial informs us that many indicators, such as a dramatically diminished intere...
Two men died in Ottawa on Wednesday. One was evil and guilty. One was good and innocent. The hearts of all Canadians go out to the parents of the victim, reservist Nathan Cirillo. Including the...
I was pleased to read the April 2 op-ed by Zainab Bint Younus in the National Post, “Don’t speak for Muslim women. Speak to us,” written in response to a preceding column by J...
I grew up reading Archie comics in the 1950s. My kids read Archie comics in the 1970s. And now my grandchildren are reading Archie comics … from the 1970s. Once the Archie gang got polit...
Liberal MP Massimo Pacetti allegedly had sex in his hotel room last March with a political peer, an unnamed NDP MP, who informally complained about the encounter to Liberal leader Justin Trudea...
This column was drawn from opening remarks presented at a March 27 Macdonald-Laurier Institute debate in Ottawa, on the resolution: “Free speech in Canadian Universities is an endangered ...
In Quebec, “values” is a loaded term. Last year, the Parti Québécois bought into the assumption that a crackdown on hijabs and yarmulkes and other outward signs of rel...
This is a story of chickens coming home to roost in the nicest possible way.
In the early 1980s, I founded and edited an annual anthology of creative writing by Montreal and area high sch...