Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2010
The wind is howling. Snow is piling up faster than it can be shovelled away. The days are short. Civilizati...
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Up in the Air is the Rom Com (romantic comedy) of the year. Most critics love it. It's hugely entertaining, but the surprise ending (spoiler alert!) sends a jarring message no reviewer (to ...
To inaugurate a Domestic Violence Awareness Day conference in London, Ont., this coming Saturday, a vigil and commemorative ceremony will be held for Dave Lucio.
Dave Lucio’s...
means, "Hats off to you, Quebec."
With the announcement of Bill 94, barring the niqab in publicly funded spaces, Quebec has dared to tread where the other provinces, feet bolted to...
Alexis de Toqueville, the legendarily prescient 19th century observer of the American mentalite, (he coined the word "individualism"), believed America's absence of social hierarc...
Whether they admit it or not, virtually all Westerners hate the niqab and burqa for the anti-democratic ideology and misogynistic gender relations they signify. Many are increasingly willing to say...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010
Quebec's roving public consultations on euthanasia and assisted suicide began on Sept. 7, and wrap up...
On Sunday, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney praised a Federal Court ruling denying citizenship to Syrian immigrant Nasoh Raslan. At trial, it was revealed that Mr. Raslan's Ontario "h...
In its Aug. 2 round-up of “Good News” and “Bad News,” Maclean’s magazine included under “Bad News” the Syrian government’s decision to ban n...
From earliest childhood it would seem that the hardest words to say are "I'm sorry." Children would never say them if they weren't coached, prompted, nagged and sometimes time...
A study released May 26 on birth and abortion rates for girls aged 15-19 in four countries – Canada, the U.S., England/Wales and Sweden –presents data showing that between 1996-2006 Canada’s t...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010
Recently friends invited my husband Ronny and me and another couple to dinner at their upscale tennis club. Upon our arriva...
The industry that has grown up around domestic violence (DV), or, as it is more precisely situated these days in research circles, intimate partner violence (IPV), began in good faith decades ago a...
When Mother's Day was invented just over 100 years ago, early and multiple motherhood was the near-universal destiny of most women. That all changed 50 years ago with the invention of "the Pill," ...
A scathingly reviewed exhibit by Damien Hirst demonstrates just how low the modern art world has fallen
Afour-month long, much-hyped London exhibit of 25 recent works, painted by English "artist" D...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010
Last Saturday I chatted with a young woman I met after a panel discussion I'd participated in. "A...
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The who’s who of Canada’s cultural elite — that is to say, Toronto’s glitterati — will all be at the Scotiabank...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Jul. 28, 2010
"Strange times to be a Jew." That's the master theme, voiced early and demonstrated often, in a haunting 2...
Barbara Kay, National Post · Wednesday, Jul. 21, 2010
Writing about Canadian fiction last September, I bemoaned Canadian publishers' penchant for somnolent navel-gazing over...
One of the greatest challenges of being a parent is figuring out what and how to teach your child about religion. In a week-long series of commentary articles, National Post contributors assess...