2011‑2022, and is preserved here for archival purposes.
Father Raymond J. De Souza's Continuing Survey of Religion, Culture and Public Life.
On his return flight from Kraków, when asked about the murder of Father Jacques Hamel at the altar during Holy Mass, Pope Francis said, "I don't like to speak of Islamic violence because every day when I open the newspapers I see acts of violence, here in Italy: someone kills his girlfriend, someone...
“The NRA may advocate for an individual right, but its influence derives precisely from collective democratic action,” Cole writes in a recent New York Review of Books Black Americans, Cole writes, are much less sympathetic to gun rights than whites: “Only 24 per cent of African-Americans support th...
How many people think of Brampton–the 500,000 person city northwest of Toronto—as being the centre of any religious movement? In the mid-1800’s, Brampton, a community of less than 600 people, was the heart of the Canadian Primitive Methodist movement. Read here.
Lawson ultimately left Brampton, becoming a Justice of Peace in Hamilton, but before he left, he and Elliott shaped the Primitive Methodist movement in Canada John Elliott was a well-to-do Primitive Methodist born and raised in Brampton, Cumberland, England Finding success, the next year the first c...
Mosques, synagogues, and churches share in sponsoring Syrian refugees. Read about their interfaith philanthropy here.
The Better Together refugee sponsorship group is a network of 10 Northumberland-area churches that almost simultaneously decided they each wanted to sponsor refugees ...
As reporter Ben Judah writes in a fine piece of journalism for the UK’s Standpoint Magazine, the mayor of the economically depressed town northeast of Paris near the Belgian border is a touchstone for a seismic shift in French political life, and so for the near to middle-term future of Europe Since...
After a long career in labour law, Rabbi Shalom Schachter got his rabbinical ordination 11 years ago. In both careers, his vocation has always been that of a peacemaker. Read his story here.
In the 1980s, Shalom felt that the 15 week parental leave policies prohibited him from being involved in raising his children, and discouraged his wife from pursuing her vocational interests Today, Shalom works part time as a Rabbi at Beth Tikvah Synagogue in Toronto, and part time as a legal adviso...
In fact, as lawyer Albertos Polizogopoulos told me in an interview following the recent Ontario Appeal Court decision in the Trinity Western University case, what we should be concerned about is the implacable use of “inclusion” to exclude Canadians from their Charter Rights around religious freedom...
The Anglican Parish of St. George's, born in 1841, has been operating in a small town just outside London, Ontario, for 175 years. Read the story here.
One hundred and seventy-five years ago, a group of South Western Ontario settlers held their first service together as the Anglican Parish of St In February the choir joined with the neighbouring United Church choir to perform a concert of Sunday anthems, honouring the musical legacy of St It was Ro...
The World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) is a global human rights organization based in Toronto. Read about their work at the UN implementing interfaith humanitarian and development aid.
Karin Achtelstetter, General Secretary of World Association for Christian Communication, recently recalled a story from a worldwide Sikh organization represented at a UN interfaith roundtable, who talked about their approach to development aid The World Association for Christian Communication (WACC)...
Six years ago, after a decade in the House of Commons, David Anderson was in search of a new issue to pursue as an MP. Eventually, freedom of religion became his personal and vocational pursuit.
Despite his parliamentary emphasis on international religious freedom, however, Anderson acknowledges deepening concern about intolerance toward religious belief and practice here in Canada The group’s work was influential in Canada’s own House of Commons Subcommittee on International Human Rights i...
In his piece, Millhiser focuses on how Heritage and ADF have historically opposed and criticized the US Supreme Court’s decisions that have found a constitutional right to privacy Because the argument being put forward by ADF and endorsed by Heritage strategically uses the current law—law I presume ...
Lloyd Mackey set out to highlight Canadian Christian leaders after a long career in faith-based journalism. Read about Mackey's Encyclopedia project here.
As it stands, the site is populated with reprinted content from Michael Clarke’s 1998 book Canada: Portraits of Faith, but Mackey and team intend to go further with features of contemporary leaders He to touches a bit on the faith aspect, how the faith will influence the kind of leadership or the ki...
Are you sure that a little bit of competition to a large education monopoly might not just make everyone perform a little better? Surely the 12 percent who attend independent schools can provide a bit of healthy competition for the 88 percent of those who do not? Surely there’s room—as other countri...
Cardus Work and Economics Program Director Brian Dijkema reflects on the opportunity that construction season provides us to celebrate the "vast array of talents and skills that it takes to keep a country and its economy functioning."
Construction work is happening all over the country, in Edmonton, Vancouver, and Cardus’s hometown The morning host of CHOM in Montreal sent me this picture of their response to construction ...
On a recent visit to Winnipeg, I toured the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) with Dr. Clint Curle, Senior Advisor to the President of CMHR. As we visited, we discussed how religious freedom is explored by the museum’s curators. More specifically, we looked at the tensions that exist between competing rights and privileges in Canada and across the globe.
Comprising various artifacts from Canadian Indian Residential schools, government buildings, treatment centres, churches, and other significant places, The Witness Blanket “stands as a national monument to recognise the atrocities of the Indian Residential School era, honour the children, and symbol...