Vigile.net - Barbara Kay

Memo to my children

Barbara Kay - The National Post — 2009-09-23T12:14:00Z

MONTREAL -Lately, we have witnessed a pernicious cultural trend toward the rebranding of legalized euthanasia as a gift rather than a menace to society's most vulnerable citizens. I doubt that Bloc Quebecois' Francine Lalonde's Bill C-384 bill seeking to decriminalize euthanasia (her third attempt since 2005 !) will find (...) - consulter en ligne

Raelians, witches and Christians — in Quebec there is no difference

Barbara Kay - The National Post — 2008-12-17T11:07:00Z

An often-quoted Jesuit maxim boasts, "Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man." Only seven ? Amateurs ! Since September all Quebec students from primary school entry to high school graduation, whether enrolled in public or non-funded private schools, must attend Quebec's new Ethics and Religious Culture course (...) - consulter en ligne

Quebec's glorious fantasy world

Barbara Kay - The National Post — 2008-10-22T14:32:00Z

Stephen Harper saw defeat snatched from the jaws of victory when sovereigntist leaders gleefully parlayed his foolish pre-election announcement of relatively trivial arts cuts into a majority-blocking culture card. “When our culture is attacked,” swooned PQ leader Pauline Marois, “it is all of Quebec that is attacked.” (...) - consulter en ligne

Making apologies for racism

Barbara Kay - Editorial - The National Post — 2008-03-20T10:30:00Z

There was a time when patriotism and an outsize love of country was a given in anyone running for president of the United States. Not any more. Barack Obama and his wife have demonstrated that being black means never having to say you're sorry about your — or your fellow blacks'— conditional love for America. At two (...) - consulter en ligne

From desperate separatists, a Hail Mary pass

Barbara Kay - The National Post — 2007-10-31T15:50:00Z

What matters, if you're a sovereigntist leader, and not over-scrupulous about how you get and maintain power, is that you find the word, that magic psychological bullet, to tap into the xenophobia of your hard-line party members and the disproportionately vote-rich regions. Marois' proposed law is crazy, but Marois herself is crazy (...) - consulter en ligne

Erasing the British influence on modern Quebec

Barbara Kay - The National Post — 2007-10-03T14:57:29Z

"Deux peuples fondateurs" ? "Nationalisme ethnique" ? - Le National Post se barricade toujours davantage dans une rigidité cadavérique - Vigile The year 2008 marks the 400th anniversary of French explorer Samuel de Champlain's arrival on the shores of what would become Quebec City. Celebratory plans abound. Predictably, although festive (...) - consulter en ligne

Kay, Barbara

Barbara Kay — 2007-08-17T13:06:06Z

Quebec's anti-multiculti backlash could be a selling point for separatists

Barbara Kay - The National Post — 2007-08-17T12:59:04Z

Le "blogpotinage", dernier avatar du "Kaybec bashing" - on se nourrit des bibittes qu'on trouve... Will “reasonable accommodation” succeed where all other motivations for Quebec separation have failed ? In the past, sovereigntists have tried various scare tactics to get Quebecers into separation mode : lack of political (...) - consulter en ligne

Say what you want (as long as it's in French)

Barbara Kay - The National Post — 2006-11-22T17:22:51Z

Until August, my name was completely unknown to most of Quebec's francophones. On Aug. 9, that all changed with my National Post column titled "The Rise of Quebecistan." Suddenly, I was Quebec's most hated anglophone. In that column, I castigated the four Quebec politicians who first endorsed, then marched in solidarity with (...) - consulter en ligne

Quebecers in denial : Counterpoint

Barbara Kay - The National Post — 2006-08-17T16:08:00Z

My Aug. 9 column, "The Rise of Quebecistan", has become a focus for great controversy in Quebec. In the past week, I have been interviewed by numerous radio stations, both French and English, and declared an enemy of the people, in so many words, in no less than three newspapers, including in a Post column yesterday by Andre Pratte, a (...) - consulter en ligne

The rise of Quebecistan

Barbara Kay - The National Post — 2006-08-09T17:20:57Z

MONTREAL - In his Montreal Gazette column yesterday, Don MacPherson projected a worrying Quebec trend with startling candour : "It's finally becoming respectable again to express support for terrorists." So it has. On Sunday, 15,000 Quebecers, mostly Lebanese-Canadians, marched for "justice and peace" in Lebanon. That sounds benign, (...) - consulter en ligne