Barbara Kay
Barbara Kay is a renowned columnist writing for the National Post.
Fighting is for men
As soon as Remembrance Day lapel poppies make their annual appearance, wars, old and new, occupy my thoughts. I am especially keen to see the film Jarhead, which tells the story of a U.S....
Another victim of PC orthodoxy
After certain publicized remarks he made about women colleagues at a Toronto trade event a few weeks ago, legendary adman Neil French was forced to resign as worldwide creative director for WPP Group PLC,...
From Abraham to Seinfeld, kvetching galore
The Greeks didn’t question Zeus; Christians don’t debate with Jesus; and Muslims don’t even converse, let alone argue, with Allah
“When I was a teenager, it used to terrify me when I entered non-Jewish...
The crying game
If you’ve indulged in banned substances while in high office, or stolen the pocketable equivalent of a fully loaded Lexus RX 300, how do you restore Canadians’ faith in your credibility? It isn’t the...
Make him buy the cow
My husband enjoys telling people how he “proposed” marriage to me. Ronny was from Montreal but working in Toronto at the time. It was 1964. I was in my last undergrad year of university....
Three women, three eras
To earn their keep, all I ever ask of royals or their Canadian surrogates is to make me feel honoured in their presence. I do not take a G-G’s measure from the stirring kitsch...
Jonas - a ‘classic liberal’
There’s a convention in column-writing that makes us shrink from mentioning the accomplishments of our op-ed page confreres. None of us wants to come across as a groupie in print. Instead, we send each...
The misguided march of the ‘quirkyalones’
Have you seen March of the Penguins?
The film chronicles Antarctica’s Emperor penguins on their multiple annual 70-mile treks from feeding to breeding grounds. They suffer astonishing privations in order to mate, incubate their eggs...
Enter the modern sleuth - fat, drunk and incompetent
The older I get, the more I feel that whatever I read should educate, edify or elucidate. Only on vacation do I feel justified indulging myself in the “mere” entertainment of detective fiction.
I looked...
The low-carb revolution meets its end
Lo, how the mighty hath fallen. Can it really be true? I have just read that the Atkins Diet empire has crumbled. They’ve declared bankruptcy. I imagine all the sugar industry executives in America...
A Lance of my own
International competitions like the Tour de France, or the World Aquatic Championships now in progress in Montreal, motivate kids to take up sport. That’s good. But over-ambitious parents of talented kids don’t see their...
The French media connection
MONTREAL - I was startled—not in a good way—to learn from political scientist Jean-Sebastien Rioux in a Post op ed last week that a majority of (francophone) callers to a Radio-Canada talk show following...
Circumcision: vindicated at last
The International AIDS Society will meet in Rio de Janeiro later this month. There, senior researcher Bertran Auvert, representing the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, will announce official confirmation of what...
The best reader a columnist could have
This column, approximately my 100th, marks my second anniversary of weekly contribution to the National Post. Happy contemplation of this milestone was cut short, though, by distressing parallel news of the untimely death, at...
Tales of a Bush league outfielder
KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine - As Canada Day approaches—with American Independence Day close on its heels—I feel distant from Prime Minister Paul Martin and very close to President George Bush. It isn’t disloyalty. It’s just...
