Barbara Kay was born on 1943 and is a columnist for the Canadian newspaper National Post.
19 Facts About Barbara Kay
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Barbara Kay writes a weekly column for The Post Millennial and a monthly column for Epoch Times.
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Barbara Kay's grandfather bought and sold "junk from a horse-drawn cart" to Yiddish-speaking customers, and although the family was poor and Zaide never learned English, they never felt "isolated or despised".
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Barbara Kay's cousins, including the girls, were "university educated" and had successful, prosperous careers.
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One of Barbara Kay's sisters is Canadian public administrator Anne Golden.
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Barbara Kay studied at the University of Toronto where she earned an undergraduate degree in English literature.
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Barbara Kay received a Master of Arts from McGill University in 1966 and subsequently taught literature at Concordia University and several CEGEPs.
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Barbara Kay has published articles in The Post Millennial, Pajama, The Walrus, Canadian Jewish News, and Epoch Times.
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Barbara Kay joined Ezra Levant's conservative online media channel Rebel News, in February 2017, as its Montreal correspondent.
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Barbara Kay stated her respect for Ezra Levant and Faith Goldy, but felt that the Rebel Media "brand" had been "tarnished" by several contributors who did not reflect the views of mainstream conservatives like herself.
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Barbara Kay held a residency on CBC's Because News for nineteen months from 2016 to 2017 as a "token" and only conservative on a panel of liberals.
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Barbara Kay briefly left the National Post in 2020, citing increased editorial scrutiny of her columns, but returned a few months later.
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Barbara Kay was on the Board of Governors of the conservative student newspaper The Prince Arthur Herald, which published from 2011 until 2019, and is on the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research's advisory board.
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Barbara Kay is on the advisory board of the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research, a pro-Israel think tank established in 1988.
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Barbara Kay wrote that the Israeli Apartheid Week, an American import, was part of a larger movement growing in anticipation of the May 14,2008,60th anniversary of Israel's founding.
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In 2008, Barbara Kay criticized the behaviour of the Hasidim towards the Deputy Mayor of Richmond Hill, Ontario, Brenda Hogg, who attended the Menorah-lighting Hanukkah.
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In 2018, Barbara Kay received criticism for comments she made in a National Post column about the perpetrator of the Toronto van attack, saying "I would have preferred it [sic] this had been an act of jihadism or something else linked to a clear ideology or cause" and that "Islamist terror is at least something we have come to understand".
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Barbara Kay said it was ironic that she used Strom's words, but felt they the words of the quotation made sense, even if they are those of a Holocaust denier.
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Barbara and Ronny Kay have a son, Jonathan Kay, and a daughter.