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The appointment has garnered critical attention because Justice Miller holds views that don’t align with decisions of the current Supreme Court Most prominently, Miller holds to the legal philosophy of originalism and has criticised the current interpretation of Section 7 of the Charter of Rights, w...
I’ve been steadfast for nearly 20 years in my views that driving is overrated and overpriced, so those who know me well are pretty surprised that I’m taking steps to get behind the wheel And I’ve always lived in cities, where public transit is a viable—if often slow and occasionally frustrating—opti...
The theory of carpooling fails to take into account the very structural reality of the places where we live, and even more importantly the way those structures dictate how we live through the creation of possibilities that become expectations that become obligations the become ingrained conduct It’s...
Politics has become our supreme forum for common life, so everything of importance is run through a political filter.
The pastor of Mother Emmanuel, Clementa Pickney, murdered in his own church while leading a Bible study, was also member of the South Carolina state senate, a pastor holding political office ...
If Canada Day on Parliament Hill was a dry run for the nation’s 2017 birthday party, we might be in for some soggy cake icing and spluttering candles It would be a stretch too far, I think, to blame this desultory Canada Day on awareness that this year the politicians will be in our faces all summer...
I'm still here even on those days when it seems like I'm a million miles away, distant and detached and aloof because I'm haunted by the overwhelming absence of my father who has torn a hole in my life It's this distance that Franz Wright finally named for me years ago, in a poem about the destructi...
Not conservative in the appropriated sense that its practitioners must be caricature Republicans (Bellow certainly was not) or tow any particular partisan political line In an essay written about a decade before he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, Bellow wrote with his characteristic cocked-eyebro...
In Alberta, two leaders who were caucus-mates for years in the federal Conservative party opposed each other provincially, and the vitriol between supporters of their candidacies was more intense than that directed to opposing parties The challenge I faced in Alberta is that when it came to party le...
on the need to respect Indigenous spirituality in its own right, the history and legacy of residential schools and the roles of the church parties in that system, the history and legacy of religious con?ict in Aboriginal families and communities, and the responsibility that churches have to mitigate...
The result of all this? As a minimum, LSUC was required to clearly consider TWU's right to religious freedom and balance it against the resulting discrimination against gay and lesbian students This means balancing the right (in this case, TWU's right to religious freedom) against the goals of LSUC ...
It’s as if the natural world was trying to communicate something to you ...
With the Charter we became a constitutional rather than a parliamentary democracy—whether that is a good thing or a bad thing.
Under the rule of law that has evolved from the Magna Carta, the State cannot dictate how, when and to whom free and democratic people must bow As the evolution of the Magna Carta from the mud of Runnymede 800 years ago makes evident, the rule of law bears with it the steadying weight of history ...
An eclectic roundup of incidents, events and oddities that catch our editor's eye.
Consider the latest from the American Supreme Court, which heard a case this spring about whether a Muslim headscarf should be accommodated by clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch: "Abercrombie chose not to hire Samantha Elauf, a Muslim teenager who applied for a retail job with the chain retailer,...
Earlier this year, the Supreme Court of Canada declared the government of Quebec had breached the religious freedom of Loyola High School, a private Jesuit institution in Montreal. Paul Donovan, who led the seven-year legal battle as Loyola's principal and who became its president in April, spoke with Convivium publisher Peter Stockland about the implications of the decision for Canada's faith in common life..
PD: Whether the perception is false, it challenges Trinity to ask itself this question: "Are we trying to separate ourselves from society or are we trying to find a way of engaging society? If it's the latter, then how do we get across that we're not trying to pull away from society, that we're tryi...