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Barbara Kay: PEN International’s criticism of Harper hypocritical considering its own omission

  • October 14, 2015
PEN International, the association mandated to support freedom of expression for writers, recently held its 81st annual congress in Quebec City. Every year the organization sums up the prevailing sta...
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Barbara Kay: The social right to see each other’s faces

  • October 13, 2015
My 10-year old granddaughter is an empathic child, easily distressed by tales of human or animal suffering. Yet in her chosen Hallowe’en costume she will appear to be carrying her head an...
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Barbara Kay: Don’t sell fathers short: They are as crucial to a child’s well being as a mother

  • October 6, 2015
For a recent web edition of The Walrus magazine, editor-in-chief Jonathan Kay wrote a sympathetic (but not sycophantic) reflection on Justin Trudeau, with whom he spent considerable time in his...
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Barbara Kay: Ten reasons to ban the niqab — in the public service

  • September 30, 2015
Libertarians are committed to the principle that every individual has the right to live his life as he pleases, as long as he does no harm to others. But the meaning of “harm” isn&r...
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Barbara Kay: AP offers a victory to us ‘doubters’ of climate change

  • September 28, 2015
The AP Stylebook editors are updating their nomenclature on climate change. Henceforth, people who have been described as climate change “skeptics” and “deniers” will no...
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Barbara Kay: Attention paid to male issues doesn’t diminish from feminism: it’s not a zero sum game

  • September 24, 2015
Cathy Young is a widely admired libertarian “equity feminist” American journalist, whose considerable critical skills often deployed in dismantling the “rape culture” na...
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Barbara Kay: Seeing Islamophobia everywhere

  • September 23, 2015
Racial profiling happens. It’s a serious business and when it’s clear that a visible minority has been arrested or charged or held up for public humiliation because of his race or e...
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Barbara Kay: There’s honour, and history, in being old stock

  • September 22, 2015
(--image--)   I’m not understanding the fuss about Harper’s “old stock” remarks.  I get that Jacques Parizeau once used...
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Barbara Kay: HPV rule is more evidence that boys don’t matter

  • September 18, 2015
Some years ago, a medical researcher at a Canadian university told me, in confidence, that he and his team had been following a most promising hypothesis, which, if tested successfully, might b...
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Niqab – Federal Government not going far enough

  • September 17, 2015
On Sept 15 the Federal Court of Appeal dismissed the federal government’s appeal of an earlier Federal Court ruling declaring the ban on face coverings during citizenship ceremonies unlaw...
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Barbara Kay: The man behind the monarch is a remarkable soul in his own right

  • September 16, 2015
Last week, Queen Elizabeth II became Britain’s longest-reigning monarch. The media gushed with commentary on her extraordinary life trajectory, but Prince Philip also set a record: he&rsq...
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Barbara Kay: Canada’s quiet, reassuring election

  • September 8, 2015
Normally a federal election would claim the undivided portion of the attention I allot to politics. But this time, with more fascinating political campaigns in progress abroad, I find myself di...
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Barbara Kay: Sometimes a shower is just a shower. Even at Auschwitz

  • September 4, 2015
The refugee crisis in Europe is having the effect of peeling back the thin veneer of politeness that oils the wheels of civic reciprocity. Fear is making everyone jumpy: There are so many of &l...
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Barbara Kay: Quebec wants to uncover faces while it covers mouths

  • September 1, 2015
Over the years I’ve written many columns about honour killings in Canada’s South Asian communities. Under the terms of Quebec’s proposed Bill 59, my frequent allusion to the d...
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Barbara Kay: Pit bulls are disproportionally dangerous. Why is Calgary importing more of them?

  • August 11, 2015
Only two countries allow the importation of pit bull type dogs: Canada and the U.S. In mid-June, 32 rescue dogs were saved from “death’s row” in a Bakersfield, Californi...
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Barbara Kay: The decision to die is a private matter; its execution should be, too

  • August 7, 2015
On the surface, Gill Pharoah was an English woman much like myself – a healthy septuagenarian with grey hair, living with a partner she loved, also in good health, a mother of two like me...
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Barbara Kay: Feminists won’t like the ending of Amy Schumer’s latest flick

  • August 5, 2015
Rom-com ditzy dames are a time-honoured Hollywood tradition. Comedians like Judy Holliday, Katharine Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe and Lucille Ball were adorable. And, however kooky, “nice&rdqu...
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Barbara Kay: To understand Bill Cosby, start with Alfred C. Kinsey

  • July 29, 2015
In a letter to the editor in the July 25 National Post regarding Bill Cosby’s alleged sex crimes, Jerry Pryde, of Stoney Creek, Ont., wrote: “It should be noted one of Cosby’s...
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Barbara Kay: Of course Justin Trudeau wants bilingual judges: he’s the product of bilingual privilege

  • July 28, 2015
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s seventh appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada is Justice Russell Brown, of the Alberta Court of Appeal, who will replace Justice Marshall Rothstein up...
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Barbara Kay: A defence of the classic virtues

  • July 21, 2015
After last month’s massacre of nine black worshippers at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., Americans braced for more racial upheaval. Instead, wonderment...
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