Hard on the heels of the controversial Nobel Peace Prize for Al Gore comes news of the more modest, but -- according to some critics --equally inappropriate Man Booker Prize awarded Oct. 16 to Dub...
At the age of 26, 10 years before earning his first million dollars as cofounder of the Second Cup coffee empire, Frank O'Dea was a homeless alcoholic panhandler. Almost 40 years on, the reason fo...
A jubilant Montreal Gazette headline announced on Monday: "We've got babies on the brain." July births in Quebec -- 7,400 -- are the highest monthly total this decade, and 2007 the busiest year fo...
It's usually satisfying for a pundit to anticipate the direction of a political wind, but I take no pleasure whenever one of my gloomy predictions about Quebec materializes. For example, I was sco...
Barbara Kay asks: Where are all the gay brides and grooms? I am indebted to a faithful reader, Joseph Beaudoin, who occasionally writes for Insight. The facts below were gleaned from an a...
Barbara Kay: Goodness and Godliness go hand in hand – a response to John Moore In his op ed today, "Goodness without Godliness," John Moore strikes a characteristically f...
Today is Valentine's Day. And where, Sensible Reader, will I not be found tonight? Hint: I will not be found there for New Years Eve dinner or brunch on Mother's Day either. Precisel...
Barbara Kay, National Post  Published: Thursday, December 13, 2007 We have this week two news items of tragedies involving girl victims. Both will serve t...
Hell hath no fury like one journalist bamboozled by another. This journalist was furious when she learned that the Dec. 31 British Sunday Times article "Science told: Hands off Gay Shee...
How's my grandparenting? (that bad, huh) Barbara Kay, National Post Published: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 For years, trucking companies have enlisted judgmental automobili...
*This post was from "THE GAZETTE" I feel like I've become a character in a Kafka novel Tribunal's real purpose is to shame critics of Quebec "Conseil de Presse Decis...
While the sun set on the British empire years ago, a significant anniversary on Nov. 20 reminds us that it is also beginning to set on two lingering quintessential qualities associated with Britain...
For two Wednesdays following today, readers will see the cryptic notice, "Barbara Kay will return," where my column would otherwise be. My regular readers will know that we are vacationin...
'Israeli Apartheid Week" (IAW) once again blotted intellectual landscapes on university campuses throughout February in the United States, Europe and Canada (Toronto, Hamilton, Otta...
Barbara Kay, National Post  Published: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 Karl Marx got many things wrong, but not this: "Social progress can be measured by the...
The Post's columnists have been tasked with advocating change in one institution, policy or attitude to help "fix" Canada. I have chosen the Petri dish for many of Canada's problematic tendencies:...
From the burgeoning annals of that wildfire phenomenon, the "social utility that connects people with friends" --better known as Facebook -- comes a cautionary tale of a guy who is, as the saying ...
Making Canadian jihadis Barbara Kay, National Post Published: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 Montreal has proved a particularly alluring logistical base for francophone Islam...