Earlier this month my esteemed colleague at the National Post, George Jonas, wrote a reminiscent column about irascible dogs.
Dogs are a suitable topic for the dog days of summer, and &nd...
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Typically for my generation, I married young and produced two children in my twenties. The fertility industry was then in its infancy; actual fertility specialists were rare medical birds.
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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 ...
It’s because of people like me that the antiquarian book trade is in peril.
I’m a lifelong reader. During the Golden Age of used books – mainly paperbacks – from t...
Warning in a recent speech that access to online pornography was “corroding childhood,” British Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that Internet providers — who he sai...
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...
Norman Podhoretz, former editor of Commentary Magazine and intellectual doyen of the neo-conservative movement in the U.S., took the civil rights movement to task for what he perceived as its explo...
As was widely reported last month, a media study has found that women in a wide spectrum of Western countries are significantly less knowledgeable than men about current affairs and politics. I...
In my baby-making era — we were all in our early or mid-twenties — I had a friend who told me one day that she planned on getting pregnant that night. The next day I asked, in ...
According to a woman friend of mine who is a collector of rare books, she is quite an anomaly in her trade. She estimates that 99% of used and rare book collectors are men.
In a finding s...
Earlier this year, the Supreme Court of Canada stayed proceedings against Nicole Doucet, who sought to hire at least one hit-man to kill her then-husband, Mike Ryan. Eight of the nine Just...
The other day my five-year old granddaughter’s friend asked her why she plays so much soccer. I expected to hear, “Because it’s fun!” Instead, my granddaughter said, &ld...
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 ...
Tennis champion Serena Williams is one tough cookie, and she has on her when she’s angry what my mother would have called a “mouth.” I am thinking of the time at the 2009 U.S....
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When I was young, our ...
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...
In alarmed response to emerging “men’s rights awareness” groups (MRA) on a number of Canadian campuses, the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), a union body representing so...
Two of my favourite writers have published a book of e-mail correspondence: Distant Intimacy: A friendship in the age of the Internet.
Joseph Epstein is America’s finest essayist an...
When fears about Mormon Fundamentalists taking child brides sparked the British Columbia government to ask for judicial clarity on Canada’s criminal law against polygamy, a group of people in...
Who’d want Christie Blatchford’s journalism beat?
Blatchford reports on court cases springing from the most pitiful and depraved corners of the human animal in extremis...