Up until the recent revelations that Rob Ford was battling a life-threatening illness, many of us outside Toronto considered that city’s mayor, along with his pugnacious brother Doug, at ...
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My friend David, an evolving short-story writer, spends a week every summer at the Iowa Writers Workshop. Last year, one of his fellow students in a class taught by novelist Robert Anthony Sieg...
Australian celebrity Charlotte Dawson seemed to have it all: beauty, brains, success and, for a time, “the love of my life” in ex-husband, elite swimmer Scott Miller. Last week the ...
Until a few decades ago, North America’s pit bull population was minuscule — mere hundreds of thousands, owned mostly by security-minded junkyard-dealer types who knew exactly ...
Cultural observer Joseph Epstein wrote a wonderful satirical column in the Wall Street Journal a few weeks about the “Good Intentions Paving Company,” a riff on the old cliché...
Institutions charged with the safety of the people to whom they provide services used to confine themselves to combatting known evils that had proven consequences. In the past decades, we&rsquo...
Art and music are practiced by hobbyists or professionals, and are unnecessary skills for others. But we all need minimal writing skills in order to work and socialize. Consequently, the line b...
We opinion columnists all have our little foibles. One of mine, I am a bit ashamed to admit, is occasionally rising to the bait when the thestar.com’s Heather Mallick writes a particularl...
Up until now, the charm offensive by intellectuals in the pit bull advocacy movement (PBAM) has been confined to publications targeting people capable of reading them.
Now Canadian novelist,&nb...
No Flowers/cake/photos for You! Should individuals have the right to refuse their goods or services at Gay Marriages?
Alarmed by a serious potential loss of revenue through threatened economic boy...
Last weekend, obedient to my son (and editor) Jonathan Kay’s Facebook invitation, I listened to the most recent edition of CBC Radio’s “Q,” on whose panel he is a...
In her 28 October Maclean’s column, Emma Teitel tackles gendered perceptions of suffering. She believes the public is kinder to men who are afflicted with the demons of depression o...
My first, and arguably most influential, journalistic role model was advice columnist Ann Landers. I discovered her in 1955, when I was a teenager. I liked her crisp, dryly humorous “voice&rd...
News analysis by Barbara Kay
When I began writing regularly for Canada’s National Post, my editor told me that two kinds of news stories can be counted on to attract heated response...
As a child I was enthralled by dog stories, including Eric Knight’s Lassie, Come Home, Jack London’s Call of the Wild, and the entire Albert Payson Terhune seri...
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By Barbara Kay
IN 1986 MARGARET Atwood, the doyenne of Canadian literature, published The Handmaid’s Tale about a future American dystopia in which women are forced into the role of...
The ISIS terrorist that executed James Foley spoke to the world with a British accent. News reports tell us that his identity may soon be revealed. But we already know that British-born and raised ...
News analysis by Barbara Kay
The news cycle of the last two weeks has turned up two remarkable pit bull-related stories in North America, both worthy of editorial mastication, so to speak. Ther...