2011‑2022, and is preserved here for archival purposes.
In Canada, access to palliative care varies from excellent to extremely poor based on where one lives yet euthanasia is now expected to be available anywhere at the first request The Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) reported in 2010 that 32% of all assisted deaths (including euthanasia an...
In 2013, the Baha'i National Spiritual Assembly presented a submission to the Truth and Reconciliation Comission. Read about their presentation in a repost from the Baha'i Community of Canada.
Deloria Bighorn, Chair of the Canadian National Spiritual Assembly, the national governing body of the Baha’i Community of Canada, accompanied by her daughter Jelana, presented the Baha’i submission to Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Friday 20 September, 2013 in Vancouver By bringin...
Jessikah Kumordzie, recent graduate of the University of Waterloo’s political science program has been working with Life Change Adventures to effect positive change in the hearts and minds of youth living in Waterloo’s low-income neighbourhoods.
Over the next two years, Jessikah continued to grow in her faith, aided through one-on-one meetings with her youth group leader, Rebecca Ferguson [It’s] community, and when I think about community, I think about people doing life together and supporting one another, uplifting and encouraging one ano...
The communal objective of present day Ramadan is no different than how our early generation of role models perceived it. Ramadan is not just a time to rejoice upon its arrival, dismay upon its departure, lose the rewards eventually, regress to the previous state, and wait for another one year for its return. Instead, Ramadan should be viewed with this broader outlook of community building and welcomed wholeheartedly for what it aspires to establish within us..
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Holy Blossom Temple, one of Canada’s most influential synagogues, hosted an Iftar gathering that brought Muslims and Jews together to learn about each other’s traditions of fasting and to share in the fast-breaking meal.
“Every year Intercultural Dialogue Institute GTA hosts a series of Community Iftar Dinners during the month of Ramadan,” explained Fatih Yegul, Executive Vice-President – GTA East of the Intercultural Dialogue Institute, in his welcoming remarks ...
On June 27th, 2014 the Intercultural Dialogue Institute (IDI – GTA) held a Pre-Ramadan Dinner at the Art Gallery of Mississauga as part of its annual series of “Community Iftar (fast-breaking) Dinners” during the month of Ramadan. Read the address by Muneeb Nasir here.
In the month of Ramadan, the Prophet Muhammad, peace be on him, first began to receive the divine revelations from God that would then continue for the remaining 23 years of his life, and which would subsequently be compiled by his followers as the holy Qur'an, which Muslims revere as the actual Wor...
Himy Syed is looking to answer the question, ‘Is there one Muslim Canadian Identity? Or many?’ He's travelling Canada to visit 30 Mosques in 30 days.
“InshaAllah, embarking on this trip can build upon those findings by adding an on-the-ground, point-of-view of the Canadian Muslim identity gleaned from visiting Muslim communities Canada-wide during their most active time of the year, Ramadan ...
"Since I came to Canada twenty eight years ago, there has always been an urge to give back to this wonderful country that is my adopted land and that has given me and my family a roof over our heads, jobs, security and most of all freedom. I realize that many people don't have these luxuries in their native lands or take them for granted in Canada" Raheel Raza
Early in 2008 when Judy Csillag, a personal friend and long time interfaith advocate asked me if I would like to participate in a Women of Faith build for Habitat for Humanity, I said yes with no idea of what this would entail Barbara Wilson, family outreach coordinator for Habitat informed me that...
Thana de Campos, Brazillian academic living in Ottawa, Ontario, discovered God while studying at Oxford. Read her story here.
There are little things I can do to open eyes a bit to faith and God Thana de Campos came home to God by travelling thousands of miles from her home in Brazil to complete a PhD at the University of Oxford in England ...
Stephanie Schoenhoff sat down with Andrea Nemtin, Executive Director of Inspirit Foundation to talk about religious pluralism in Canada. Read the interview here.
Through media and arts, support for young change leaders and impact investing, Inspirit Foundation works “to challenge prejudice and discrimination based on ethnicity, race and religion, and to promote inclusion and pluralism We believe that through working with media and arts for change, we can act...
Most people know Eichmann in Jerusalem as the work for which Arendt coined the phrase "the banality of evil" in the book's subtitle and final words In Eichmann in Jerusalem, Arendt makes clear she is not merely trading in the banality of there being a little bit of the infamous S.S ...
An Eclectic Roundup Of Incidents, Events And Oddities That Catch Our Editor’s Eye By Father Raymond J. De Souza
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A former Bloc Québécois politician, Richard Marceau converted to Judaism in 2004. Since 2011, he has worked for the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs as a senior adviser. In 2011, he published A Quebec Jew: From Bloc Québécois MP to Jewish Activist, detailing his spiritual journey and involvement in the Jewish community. He recently sat down to talk to Convivium publisher Peter Stockland
C: It’s interesting that the campaign itself was directed, and this is obvious, first to the Jewish community, to mobilize the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affair’s natural constituency, then to Christians to raise alarm It made me think that I like the fact that in Judaism, Hebrew is the original l...
In an address to the Catholic Civil Rights League in Toronto at the beginning of June, McGill University theologian Douglas B. Farrow sets out a faithful response to suicide by secularism gone mad
When the Supreme Court gets round to balancing the new right to assisted suicide and euthanasia with the old right to freedom of conscience and religion, I expect to see it treating both as nothing more than instances of a more fundamental right to autonomy (which it will have to read into the Chart...
Popular culture teaches us there’s a free market for sex in higher education, but Redeemer University College Professor James R. Vanderwoerd discovers that many who agree to no-strings-attached hookups later consider them a form of abuse
When Mary Koss and her colleagues developed a revolutionary new tool for measuring unwanted sexual experiences (the Sexual Experiences Survey) – which has now been used for decades, with thousands of students in hundreds of colleges and universities – they were able to provide much more accurate (an...