Barbara Kay columnist and writer focusing on political subjects

Barbara Kay: For culture warrior David Horowitz, deplatforming is no deterrent

November 13, 2018

An opinion columnist nowadays could take campus disruptions or deplatformings of conservative speakers as his or her sole weekly topic and never run out of material. The latest example comes to us ou...

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Barbara Kay: For the first time, Israel is the world’s most Jewish country — this is a game-changer

July 17, 2018

The announcement was not unexpected. On the contrary, for those who follow the subject, it was long anticipated. But the words themselves, spoken by Israel’s Immigration Minister, Sofa Landve...

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Barbara Kay: Gender studies don’t help us understand how dogs behave

September 5, 2018

For the “dog days” of summer, a column about dogs and their social life.Last year, a certain Helen Wilson, claiming to hold a “doctorate in feminist studies” submitted a pap...

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Barbara Kay: Getting to the heart of what M-103 was always all about

March 14, 2018

On Feb. 1, the National Heritage Committee submitted the report called for by the passage of M-103 last winter.M-103 surprised its backers when it turned out not to be the slam dunk they thought it...

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Barbara Kay: Hamas will always win the PR war, even as Israel wins the military victories

May 22, 2018

In his May 16 column, Terry Glavin takes Israel to task for the deaths and injuries of Gazan Palestinians sustained in the border clashes he concedes that Hamas orchestrated.Yes, Glavin understands...

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Barbara Kay: If ideologues are teaching our judges, the public has a need to know

September 5, 2018

Legal academics are openly reinterpreting their mission. Historically teachers of legal principles and law codes, they now see themselves as social-justice warriors called upon to right historical wro...

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Barbara Kay: If writing off 2019 gets us a real conservative party, so be it

August 28, 2018

Rub a dub dub, three men in a tub: Trudeau and Scheer fight for the oars, while a smiling Bernier rocks the boat.Did Bernier walk away from the CPC or was he pushed? Whatever, a poll immediately fol...

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Barbara Kay: In defence of the nation-state, and democracy

November 6, 2018

Although not on the ballot, America’s midterm elections were all about Trump. Not his policies or unique personality, but the trend throughout the West — loosely defined as populism &md...

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Barbara Kay: Israelis hold their fire as long as they can. Hamas writes cheques after mass suicides

May 18, 2018

There’s an old French proverb which, translated, reads: “This animal is very bad; when you attack it, it defends itself.” There is only one “animal” — politicall...

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Barbara Kay: It’s time to bring some order, and safety, back to our classrooms

July 24, 2018

The term “tough love” was not yet in usage when I was in high school, but it was the prevailing attitude in terms of discipline. Chronic disruptors were expelled. Teachers had real auth...

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Barbara Kay: One woman’s journey from social-justice warrior to free-speech champion

July 10, 2018

When my son’s family took up residency in Toronto’s Riverdale neighbourhood, previously unknown to me, I discovered a continually gentrifying urban paradise, rich in cultural diversity....

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Barbara Kay: Pit bull lobby put on its heels by Quebec’s dangerous dog bill, CBC documentary

September 5, 2018

In April, the Quebec government introduced Bill 128, which will authorize the province to prohibit any person from owning, breeding or acquiring “potentially dangerous” dogs, which include...

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Barbara Kay: SNL could never smear another group like it does fathers

December 18, 2018

Saturday Night Live usually hits the mark, humour-wise, but when it misses, it can miss big time. On Dec. 1, SNL mounted a skit called “Dad Christmas.” One blogger commented on it, &ldquo...

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Barbara Kay: Suggestions for the new Ontario sex-ed curriculum

July 3, 2018

Doug Ford’s victory was in some measure due to his promise — I believe a heartfelt one — to repeal the sex ed curriculum in Ontario schools. I assume there’s a replacement prog...

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Barbara Kay: The #MeToo court of public opinion needs some ground rules, fast

January 30, 2018

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s courtship of his wife, Chirlane McCray, has all the makings of a Hollywood romcom. They met in 1991 when she started working at New York City Hall. He — ...

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Barbara Kay: The Yazidis are in danger of extinction and Ottawa’s stopped helping

September 5, 2018

I’ll call her “Nada,” not her real name.Nada is a Yazidi woman from Sinjar, Iraq, now age 31. On Aug. 3, 2014, ISIL came for her people. The Kurdish Peshmerga, tasked with protect...

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Barbara Kay: The agony of an attack without explanation, and the pain of chaos

April 24, 2018

The method is only too familiar. The motive of the man who rammed a van into dozens of pedestrians in Toronto on Monday is so far unclear, although it is for the moment tentatively linked to sexual...

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Barbara Kay: The embassy move only angers the usual suspects. Even the Arab leaders have bigger problems now

May 15, 2018

So Israel’s U.S. embassy is where it belongs: Jerusalem, Israel’s eternal capital. It took its sweet time getting there, but, thanks to the last person on Earth most Americans want to c...

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Barbara Kay: The male crisis that’s ruining our boys and no one cares about

June 13, 2018

Father’s Day approaches and with it the opportunity to consider the importance of fathers to their children.It is difficult to overstate both the positive effects of growing up with a father a...

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Barbara Kay: There’s no safe space on campus to debate bathroom politics

March 6, 2018

Heather Brown, a third year Business student at Trent University, is no transphobe. She takes a live-and-let-live approach in gender matters.But Trent has instituted a policy of gender-neutral wash...

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