Befriend the sinner, banish the sin
“Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick,
Yet with my nobler reason, ‘gainst my fury
Do I take part: the rarer action...
A Father’s Day I’d like to see
Father’s Day is meant to celebrate dads. This year, instead of buying them ties or barbecue tools, let’s pledge to roll back the...
Welcome home, Mrs. Mortimer
Summer reading lists are sprouting in the weekend newspapers. Everything sounds beguiling, so how does one choose? I’m sometimes lucky judging books by...
Ten reasons not to fear separatism
MONTREAL - The French have just voted non to the EU constitution. Current EU president Jean-Claude Juncker says countries voting No need a...
Sexism, stood on its head
‘Blonde Bombshell”! “Whore”! “Dipstick”! “Barbie!” The media Belindatron has whirled for days with outrage over sexism against poor Ms. Stronach. Never mind Belinda’s...
Don’t talk to him
Two years ago, David Ahenakew, former national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, was charged with promoting hatred in a 2002 rant...
A land with no leaders
A federal election is imminent or in prospect. With two parties—the Bloc Quebecois and the NDP—mired in a state of permanent opposition, we...
In praise of unilingualism
Is multilingualism always an unalloyed blessing? May not absolute command of a single language be preferable to mere competence in two or more?
Promotions...
Cancer patients deserve better
At my age, nobody hasn’t had a personal brush with cancer. If not yourself, others in your extended family or circle of friends...
Romance, not rape
From the death-saturated month of March—Terry Schiavo and the pope 24/7—the media turned in April to the life cycle’s happier ritual of marriage....
Adoption is forever
When our children were toddlers, my husband and I planned a vacation by ourselves involving a transatlantic flight. Morbid images of downed planes...
The human face of Bill 101
Last week, 28 years after the passage of Quebec’s draconian language law, Bill 101, the Supreme Court of Canada definitively ended the hopes...
In praise of the common parka
Every spring, a true Canadian’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of next year’s winter coat.
In Montreal, where I live, winter often starts in...
