2011‑2022, and is preserved here for archival purposes.
Yet the point is not every feminist is pro-choice, and until the feminist tent is truly inclusive, women like me will have a hard time voting for women like Hillary Clinton If Hillary Clinton lost because she is a woman, could it not be said that her many prior wins were likewise because she is a wo...
The wife of the Governor General, Pauline Vanier was “one-half of a perfect partnership in the service of Canada.” She was courageous in her compassion, heroic in times of danger, and passionate about the welfare of the family.
Pauline Vanier lived a full and fulfilled nineteen years in the l’Arche community, where she was active until the last day of her life After Pauline’s death, Cowley and her late husband, George, collaborated in writing One Woman’s Journey: A Portrait of Pauline Vanier (1994) After a two-week retreat...
Or as former federal Justice Minister, long time Member of Parliament, and McGill University law professor Irwin Cotler told the CRRF Conference, we cease being silent bystanders and join in the service of what is right and good in society Cotler drew attention to a central theme of the two-day late...
Not in possession of a high tolerance for hours of televised punditry, especially of a partisan kind, I went to bed early on American election night, fully expecting that the sun would rise on a Hillary Clinton victory The night before Election Day, Clinton held a rally in Philadelphia headlined by ...
Bathed in afternoon light, this capture of a softly lit synagogue moves the viewer towards a sense of unity as found in arches created with a spirit of holy intention.
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Deani Van Pelt keeps close to her the constant reminder that the words on her son's tombstone – words from the gospel, words of faith – would not be there without the support of the community who helped raise her son into a devoted follower of Christ.
When you read the words on his stone, know that without the love of others, those words, those Psalm and gospel words, would not be there The sacred words on that stone would not be there without the love and care that others poured into our son ...
Protection of those charities was the reason Van Pelt went public in September with a Convivium column revealing plans by Universities Canada to effectively strip faith-based schools of membership Appeal Court decision in the Trinity Western case will find reason for even broader hope than just the ...
Convivium: Conrad Black, who obviously lived in the States for a number of years – in fact for a couple of years longer than he necessarily wanted to – made the point that if Trump doesn't get this right, it's not going to be just people who are going to go away mad And we will have to adapt to that...
How are faith, academics, and athletics all connected? We asked Kim Chapdelaine, assistant track and field coach at Trinity Western University in Langley, BC about that. For Chapdelaine and her family, coaching is intimately tied to seeking God’s kingdom.
The impact on them is unbelievable and they don’t have the support of the other athletes, there is no prayer, no study groups, no structure in place where you feel like you can turn to someone for support and understanding that God is central to all of that It is identifying with them, this is why y...
His first words as Governor General of Canada were a prayer seeking blessing and humility. He lived and served through both World Wars, promoting healing and serving as a skillful diplomat.
The announcement that General Georges Vanier had been appointed the governor-general of Canada came at a meeting of the Canadian cabinet in Halifax at which Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II presided In 1927, Vanier held the rank of lieutenant colonel and was sent to Geneva as a Canadian military advis...
Douglas Farrow, McGill’s Professor of Christian thought and holder of the Kennedy Smith Chair in Catholic Studies, lambastes U of T administration in an open letter for trying to “compel [Peterson] to adopt the linguistic habits of those with whom he profoundly disagrees,” namely transgender activis...
Paradoxically – some might say Providentially – Ian was part of an experimental electronic medical records program that gave Tompkins full access to every detail of his care Such large-scale forgetting, Tompkins believes, is why even seasoned practitioners in the public health care system frequently...
The Globe and Mail ran a story on the dispute between the Alberta government and the Wisdom Home Schooling Society of Alberta, which has been shut down due to alleged financial irregularities Our report found that in most dimensions, homeschool graduates along with all other non-public school gradua...
A parachute that brought supplies and the hope of liberation to a family in the Netherlands during WWII has since been repurposed into a baptism gown with an even greater meaning of hope.
His baptismal gown dates back to 1946—but the fabric it’s made from goes back a year earlier, to a silk parachute attached to food supplies dropped by the Allied forces just before the liberation of the Netherlands from its occupation by Nazi Germany ...
Tommy Douglas, a clergyman, embodied the social democratic movement, defined Canada's Medicare system, and served as Saskatchewan’s Premier for seventeen years.
The first leader of a socialist (CCF) government in Canada was the former Baptist minister, Tommy Douglas (1904 - 1986), in Saskatchewan, and the first leader of the federal CCF party was the former Methodist minister James Shaver Woodsworth In 1932, Douglas wrote to Woodsworth for advice on politic...