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Barbara Kay: Schools Must Scrap Anti-Racism Objectives That Risk Encouraging Anti-Semitism

Commentary Earlier this month, the Fraser Institute published the results of a commissioned poll, conducted by Leger, that ...

Viewpoints June 25, 2024

Barbara Kay: Orwellian ‘Doublethink’ Has No Place in Sports

Commentary June 8 was the 75th anniversary of George Orwell’s anti-totalitarian novel, “1984.” Whenever we speak of the ...

Viewpoints June 10, 2024

Barbara Kay: Amid Marginalization of Christians in Gaza, 3 Christian Countries Endorse Palestinian Statehood

Commentary Israel is home to about 150,000 Christians, 80 percent of them Arabs. They live and prosper in ...

Viewpoints May 27, 2024

Barbara Kay: It’ll Take a Grassroots Movement to Re-Moralize Our Youth and Curb Family Erosion

Commentary Another Mother’s Day has come and gone. As florists, jewellers, and purveyors of brunch all across North ...

Viewpoints May 13, 2024

Barbara Kay: Ottawa Should Support Canadian Muslim Groups That Condemn Hamas, Instead of Funding Anti-Semitic Ones

Commentary According to a January report submitted to Israel’s Knesset regarding anti-Semitism around the world since Oct. 7, ...

Viewpoints April 16, 2024

Barbara Kay: BC Must Reject Activist Demand to Teach Historically Inaccurate Account of 1948 Arab-Israeli War in Schools

Commentary A pro-Palestinian activist group called Nakba Education BC has sent an open letter and a petition to ...

Viewpoints April 1, 2024

Barbara Kay: Canadian Restrictions on Kosher Slaughter of Animals Don’t Make Good Optics

Commentary You’d be hard pressed to find anyone who will defend animal suffering as a value in itself. ...

Viewpoints March 18, 2024

Barbara Kay: There’s Nothing to Admire in Aaron Bushnell’s Gruesome Self-Immolation

Commentary On Feb 25, Aaron Bushnell, 25, an active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force, livestreamed himself in ...

Viewpoints March 4, 2024

Barbara Kay: Rigorous DEI Studies Set the Record Straight on the Flawed Agenda

Commentary In 2016, the Law Society of Ontario published a report, “Challenges Facing Racialized Licensees: Best Practices memorandum,” ...

Viewpoints February 20, 2024

Barbara Kay: Mark Steyn’s Trial Has Important Implications for Freedom of Speech

Commentary Iago, Shakespeare’s villain in “Othello,” set a high price on his reputation: “Who steals my purse steals ...

Viewpoints February 6, 2024

Barbara Kay: Leninism Is Alive and Well Among the West’s Multitude of ‘Useful Idiots’

Commentary An old Soviet joke opens with a set-up question: What was the world’s most significant historical event ...

Viewpoints January 23, 2024

Barbara Kay: To Uphold the Preferred Narrative, Media Will Go to Any Lengths to Demonize Israel

Commentary The news story of the year in 2023 was indubitably Hamas’s Oct. 7 pogrom in southern Israel ...

Viewpoints January 10, 2024

Critical Race Theory Allies Ignore the Greatest Privilege Available to All Races: Traditional Family

Commentary It was gratifying to read Tara MacIsaac’s informative Nov. 30 feature article, “What Canadian Schools Are Teaching ...

Viewpoints December 12, 2023

Barbara Kay: Where Are the Feminist Voices Denouncing the ‘Toxic Masculinity’ of Hamas’s Pogrom?

Commentary The United Nations’ International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women is celebrated every year on ...

Viewpoints November 28, 2023

Barbara Kay: We Should Honour Leaders Who Defend Their Nation’s Cultural Terrain, Not Cancel Them

Commentary Events around the world, arising out of the Oct. 7 pogrom in southern Israel, have exposed multiculturalism’s ...

Viewpoints November 13, 2023

Barbara Kay: By Using the ‘Decolonization’ Rubric, the Intelligentsia Are Disguising Terrorism as Heroism

Commentary Hamas’s Oct. 7 pogrom in southern Israel was motivated by exterminationist Jew hatred, but this terrorist arm ...

Viewpoints October 31, 2023

Barbara Kay: The Culture That Allows Anti-Jewish Hate to Fester at Universities Must End

Commentary In the days after Hamas’s murderous pogrom, it became clear that sympathy for Israel’s victims, although robustly ...

Viewpoints October 16, 2023

Barbara Kay: Anthropology Associations’ Pivot to Social-Justice Model of Academic Inquiry Is Anti-Science

Commentary Anthropology was once a noble academic discipline, dedicated to the scientific exploration of human societies in all ...

Viewpoints October 3, 2023

Barbara Kay: The Crying Game Rife in Our ‘Feelings’ Culture Is Nothing but Manipulative Kitsch

Commentary According to the 2018 OECD Programme for International Student Assessment, a full 86 percent of 15-year-olds had ...

Viewpoints September 19, 2023

Barbara Kay: ‘Barbie’ Movie’s Anti-Male, Anti-Motherhood Theme a Bad Influence for Young Girls

Commentary I resisted the “Barbie” movie as long as possible, but eventually succumbed. When a film bearing one’s ...

Viewpoints September 5, 2023

Barbara Kay: Allowing Trans Women to Compete in Women’s Chess Would Be Just as Problematic as Any Other Sport

Commentary Two years ago, with regard to male athletes identifying as female, the competitive sport world presented a ...

Viewpoints August 22, 2023

Barbara Kay: Summer Camp in the Digital Age Propels Some Parents Into Neurotic Overdrive

Commentary In my socially cloistered youth, I assumed that summer camp—especially the sleep-away kind for at least a ...

Viewpoints August 8, 2023

Barbara Kay: The Bullying of Late Toronto Principal a Feature of DEI Training, Not a Bug

Commentary The untimely death by suicide of school principal Richard Bilkszto, 60 years of age, came as a ...

Viewpoints July 24, 2023

Barbara Kay: When They Say ‘We’re Coming for Your Children,’ Believe Them

Commentary For years, Canadians have proved amenable to demands for basic rights, but also to entitlements, for those ...

Viewpoints July 10, 2023

Barbara Kay: Mulling Legal Sanctions Over Arbitrary ‘Residential School Denialism’ Accusations Is Dangerous Territory

Commentary Kimberly Murray, an indigenous rights careerist appointed to advise Attorney General David Lametti on missing children, unmarked ...

Viewpoints June 26, 2023

Barbara Kay: NB Premier’s Stance Supporting Parental Rights a Promising Sign

Commentary New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs has called for a review of LGBTQ policies in schools. Henceforth, parents ...

Viewpoints June 12, 2023

Barbara Kay: Gender Ideologues Trying to ‘Cancel’ Objective Research on Dysphoria, Transitioning

Commentary By 2017, already professionally engaged in transgender politics, I began to focus on the anecdotally observed phenomenon ...

Viewpoints May 29, 2023