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National Post
National Post
One in 10 new cancers worldwide is a female breast cancer. And North American rates of breast cancer are the highest in the world.
While there is no magic bullet assuring prevention, epid...
When Angelina Jolie talks, people listen. And when Angelina Jolie’s breasts walk, People magazine and all other media listen.
Via an op ed in the New York Times, Angelina Jolie has ...
Toronto’s Pride parade began as a strategy in attracting widespread popular support, in a time-honoured, peaceful, way, for gay rights — not only in Canada, but everywhere. As time ...
Know what the greatest thing about community sports programs for kids is? Volunteerism! Know what the worst thing about community sports programs for kids is? Volunteerism!
Recreational sport a...
The first slow-germinating seed of my late-life career as a columnist was planted by a daily newspaper column I glommed onto during my teen years. I’m a bit embarrassed to reveal this columnist’s ...
As the topic for its popular annual debate last May, the Oxford University Union proposed that “This House believes Islam is a religion of peace.”
Considering the venue &mdash...
Going thru some old files and was reminded of…
Lyn McLeod
It seems rather strange that so many other provinces already have women premiers – Quebec, Newfoundland, British Colum...
A Pew Research report overturned public perception this week, when it reported that gun violence overall has been declining in the U.S. for two decades. In spite of a dramatic rise in actual gu...
Today, May 22, is the 200th birthday of famed composer Richard Wagner — so his native Germany is awash in concerts, lectures and recordings to celebrate the Jubiläumsjahr (Jubilee Year)....
The headline reads, “Fewer rural doctors willing to perform abortions as health workers face increased hostility in small towns.” Without even reading the news account, I knew this ...
Leftist ideologies so dominate the humanities on Western campuses that academia is perceived as a liberal vocation, with conservative scholars a lonely minority.
Who but a liberal grad st...
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, published 50 years ago, is a touchstone for western feminists. For many, Friedan’s book is perceived as the bright line between women’s unbroken ...
Jean-François Lisée, the Quebec minister charged with improving government relations with the province’s anglophones, has a way with words.
Words that soothe, words that fla...
I just made myself the most delicious meal from a brand new recipe I wish I’d thought up 50 years ago, as it would have been what I mostly lived on.
It was so delicious that even though I was comple...
Back in the day, there were comedies and tragedies, and never the twain met. In comedies, good-hearted heroes got into scrapes, but never died. They generally ended with love conquering all and...
Beloved actor Mary Tyler Moore, 76, long afflicted with diabetes and its complications, is in seclusion at home after hospitalization for two medical crises — bone fractures from a f...
Trinity Western University (TWU) in British Columbia proposes to establish its own law school. It would teach the same law as secular law schools, but it would ask its students to sign a Community ...
Michelle Allaby spent Thursday night carrying a stack of paper door-to-door in her Dartmouth, N.S., neighbourhood. She and two other mothers have amassed more than 350 signatures in protest of what...
Last week, on the eve of becoming homeless as his house passed into its new owner’s hands, Earl Silverman of northeast Calgary hanged himself in his garage.
Silverman briefly hit th...