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A Canadian childhood Forty famous Canadians share their favourite memories

  • July 5, 2016
Until I was 10 and bundled off to overnight summer camp, I spent whole summers in Balfour Beach, a 50-family community near Keswick on the south end of Lake Simcoe, a relatively short commute for f...
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A different point-of-view concerning the ban of dangerous dog breeds

  • October 21, 2016
The September issue of The Montrealer featured a column by family lawyer Linda Hammerschild, provocatively entitled “Banning dog breeds – knee ‘jerk’ political decisions.&rd...
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Barbara Kay: A Marxist revolution by alt-left millennials?

  • November 23, 2016
In her post-election column, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan described the mood of Hillary supporters as one of “enraged mourning,” an excellent description for the emoti...
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Barbara Kay: A testimony to Canada’s human rights superstar

  • May 30, 2016
Is there a Nobel Peace Prize in the near future for former Liberal Justice Minister and human-rights luminary Irwin Cotler? There will be if fellow human-rights superstar Alan Dershowitz h...
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Barbara Kay: Absolutist dogma is chilling transgender research

  • May 31, 2016
Grayson Perry, a successful British potter, has from the age of 10 enjoyed dressing up as a woman. Perry’s “alter ego” Claire sometimes favours a Mrs. Thatcher persona, someti...
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Barbara Kay: Across North America, seeds of a religious rebound

  • December 20, 2016
My grandparents, immigrants from Poland and Romania, were Orthodox Jews and deeply observant. My parents, born here, joined a Conservative shul (mixed seating), and kept a traditionally Jewish ...
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Barbara Kay: All dogs can bite, but only a few are aggressive, impulsive and seek chances to maim

  • August 16, 2016
Last Saturday, police were forced to shoot two aggressive “pit bull type” dogs after a “scary, traumatic” attack on a man, 66, and a woman, 25, in Ottawa’s east en...
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Barbara Kay: Anti-Israel crusader Max Blumenthal does not deserve the honour of a PEN Canada audience

  • February 23, 2016
Marking Freedom to Read Week, on Wednesday,  Feb, 24, at the Toronto Reference Library, PEN Canada will present, “Embattled Truths: Reporting on Gaza,” a talk by U.S. polemicis...
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Barbara Kay: Appeasing the Islamists in Quebec

  • January 6, 2016
Islamism proved a growing threat to Western nations in 2015. But while massacres rivet our attention, they constitute only the most flamboyant tactics in the jihadists’ triumphalist progr...
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Barbara Kay: At $317 million, Via Rail is cheap to maintain Canada’s rail heritage

  • May 5, 2016
Uh-oh. The federal auditor general’s office has just released a study casting a cloud, yet again, on the future of rail travel in Canada. The report indicates an increase in late-ar...
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Barbara Kay: ‘Believing women’ isn’t the same thing as proving guilt

  • March 30, 2016
Reading Justice William Horkins’ preamble to his judgment following the Jian Ghomeshi trial, I marvelled anew at the testimonies of the three women accusers and the cultural revolution th...
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Barbara Kay: Campus anti-Semitism looks to instill hatred for the long term

  • February 16, 2016
At McGill University, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) zombie has returned. For the third time in less than two years (and the fifth time in seven years), anti-Zionist crusader...
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Barbara Kay: Caution and accuracy are not an offence to freedom of speech

  • August 22, 2016
Normally you wouldn’t find even a sliver of daylight between my views on freedom of speech and those of John Carpay, president of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF). Bu...
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Barbara Kay: Could Islamism be to blame for the Orlando attack? Perish the thought!

  • June 21, 2016
Last week, I was invited into a talk-radio forum on the Orlando massacre. It provided a good example for listeners of the competing interpretive narratives the mass killing has generated. ...
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Barbara Kay: Curb the chivalric impulse, women don’t need it

  • December 8, 2016
In a recent column, my colleague Colby Cosh took Conservative Party leadership candidate Kellie Leitch’s proposal that Canadians be allowed to carry chemical mace and pepper spray for sel...
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Barbara Kay: Dads are parents, too

  • July 12, 2016
Poor, poor, poor Gwen Stefani. The Hollywood star split from her rocker husband Gavin Rossdale in 2015. But that’s not why we must pity her. After all, Stefani’s marriage lasted lon...
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Barbara Kay: David Brown — the black leader America needs

  • July 19, 2016
On Sunday, a remarkable exchange took place between outspoken Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke and CNN’s Don Lemon (both black) after the Baton Rouge, La., incident in which three poli...
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Barbara Kay: Death at the Pumpkin

  • November 1, 2016
The winner of the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction will be announced in Toronto Wednesday. I would delight in seeing the award bestowed on Toronto-born Israeli journalist...
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Barbara Kay: Driverless cars are coming — but what about the fight for the right to drive your own vehicle?

  • December 6, 2016
Since 1982, alcohol-related fatalities in the U.S. have come down 52 per cent overall, and 79 per cent for drivers under the age of 21. What should be cause for satisfaction, how...
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Barbara Kay: Flattening feminism’s campus myths

  • March 9, 2016
On the occasion of a prestigious award in her field last month, associate professor Elena Bennett in McGill University’s Natural Resources Sciences and School of Environment was interview...
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