If, like me, you find the world of the soi-disant Humanities to be a rich source of unintended humour, read on.
During this week's Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at T...
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Barbara Kay, National Post
Published: Wednesday, June 07, 2006
Occasionally, family members or friends ask me to give them advice. When I say "occasionally," though, I&#...
TORONTO - If you live in Toronto, you may have noticed the Bathurst Street billboards sponsored by Jewish Women International Canada (JWIC). They all display the same emotive ad, featuring a...
'For Heaven's sake, a man is cheating on you, you do what every wife in this country does: You take him to the cleaners. Get his house, car, kids -- make him wish he was dead."
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A simple way to confirm that a particular ideology has captured mainstream culture is to monitor the political vigour or sluggishness around the causes that it deems "correct" and &q...
Comes Canada Day and the annual glowy focus on the year's diverse multicultural crop of new Canadians, I remember summers in the late 1940s at our Lake Simcoe cottage community north of ...
Feminism has revolutionized the demography of the university. Women now constitute 59% of the undergraduate population in Canada. In English literature, 83% of undergrads are female; in soci...
MONTREAL - Normally, when a dual-passport Canadian accidentally perishes in the chaos of war abroad, sympathy is duly expressed, and the news treadmill pushes on. But when almost an entire C...
An Ipsos Reid poll indicates that a majority of Canadians are on the same wavelength as Stephen Harper. Almost two thirds of us believe Israel's military response to Hezbollah's prov...
Schism at the salon
Barbara Kay, National Post
Published: Wednesday, August 02, 2006
A few months ago, I was charmed by an exchange via column and letters to the editor by libertar...
MONTREAL - In his Montreal Gazette column yesterday, Don MacPherson projected a worrying Quebec trend with startling candour: "It's finally becoming respectable again to ...
I'm a judgmental sort of person, not the kind you'd go to for unconditional love (unless you were one of my three adorable grandchildren). Impatient enough as a real parent, I think ...
My Aug. 9 column, "The Rise of Quebecistan," has become a focus for great controversy in Quebec. In the past week, I have been interviewed by numerous radio stations, both French a...
‘We miss him”, my companion says with understated sadness. “We feel orphaned.”
I am interviewing Freddy Eytan, polyglot Israeli journalist, diplomat, profe...
In his Sept. 2 National Post column, George Jonas noted that if universities had been eliminated around 1900, we'd have been spared the devastating effects of many toxic ideologies, whic...
MONTREAL - As a former teacher at Dawson College who lives only eight blocks from the scene of last Wednesday's mayhem, I followed developing news with troubled fascination, grateful tha...
The first indication that our son, Jonny, had allergies occurred when, at the age of about 15 months, he got sick after eating chicken a la king (for anyone under the age of 50, this is basi...
What's it like to go into anaphylactic shock? Is a snake a good
alternative when cats make you sneezy and dogs make you wheezy? And hasn't every asthmatic faked it at least once?...
"I believe children have the right to a mother and a father, and preferably their biological parents." These words -- I agree with them, and so do the UN Conventions of the Child -...
Leave religion out of recruiting
Barbara Kay, National Post
Published: Wednesday, October 04, 2006
In the 1950s, when Israel was a fledgling state, my friends and I used to (half...