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What happened Tuesday night in Alberta would have been dismissed as crazy talk had it been prophesized even six months ago, so it’s natural that the narrative around the NDP landslide has been political shock and awe Bold predictions that the breaching of Fortress Alberta bodes well for federal NDP ...
It’s about, in many ways, the long view and the way history’s vagaries are so integral to its outcomes
What happened Tuesday night in Alberta would have been dismissed as crazy talk had it been prophesized even six months ago, so it’s natural that the narrative around the NDP landslide has been political shock and awe Bold predictions that the breaching of Fortress Alberta bodes well for federal NDP ...
According to research in "Death Is Natural," a report released by Cardus yesterday, 73 percent of Canadians look toward their final days with a sense of fear that their needs will not be adequately met ...
The violation of necessary State religious neutrality by the Saguenay municipal council, the Court agreed, constituted unjustifiable discrimination against resident atheist Alain Simoneau Much as people of religious faith are conditioned to seeing bad news coming from the Supreme Court of Canada, th...
And the fellow would typically look at me and say, “Well, that’s true for you but it’s not true for me It’s the same with topics like democracy, freedom—all the other topics in my book, fourteen in all—they come down to irresolvable differences in the belief systems or philosophical approaches to li...
Author William Gairdner discusses his latest book
It’s the same with topics like democracy, freedom—all the other topics in my book, fourteen in all—they come down to irresolvable differences in the belief systems or philosophical approaches to life And the fellow would typically look at me and say, “Well, that’s true for you but it’s not true for ...
My own immigration experience suggests to me that research is intimately connected to the question, “What is anything for?” There are competing imaginations about what education research is for because there are competing imaginations about what the universe is for—or even whether it is for anything...
A Christian social witness begins not with the fall and the evidence of brokenness, but with creation—and the human potential and hope for flourishing which God has placed into it Why was Annie able to make progress where the Keller family had failed? Annie saw the dignity and potential that Helen p...
And it does show that graduates of private schools, as a whole, compared to the public school sector, look back more favourably on their education and consider it more crucial to adult life, which confirms the StatsCan report One of the things we know from the research associated with independent re...
An eclectic roundup of incidents, events and oddities that catch our editor's eye.
The old image on the five-dollar bill was taken from The Hockey Sweater, Roch Carrier's story about boys who "lived in three places — the school, the church and the skating rink," and even the last was presided over by the parish priest as referee As a priest, Father Ted knew that better than most, ...
While it is reasonable to expect Loyola to teach about other religions from a "neutral" perspective, the Court said, the refusal to allow the Montreal Jesuit school to manifest its own identity while teaching about Catholicism contradicts the Ethics and Religious Culture program's own stated goal of...
Following the Supreme Court of Canada's February decision invalidating federal laws against assisted suicide, Convivium publisher Peter Stockland had the chance to converse with two of the country's prominent voices in the anti-euthanasia fight. Charles Lewis is a veteran journalist forced to leave his job as a religion reporter for the National Post due to a disability.
They were told by people who were very active in trying to prevent the legalization of euthanasia: "Please keep out of it, because if it gets labelled as a Catholic issue, then everybody will say, 'Well, we don't need to worry about that because that's just a religious view C: But how did we get to ...
How has it come to pass, Gavin C. Miller asks, that the adoration of the Magi has become the world's most adored hairspray? Even atheists might wonder how advertising compels them to worship
Ironically, the unearthly magenta-and-white flowers and thick glossy leaves made me think, at first, "how could this thing be real?" I lost the photo, and the last time I looked for the plant, the hillside was covered with dog-strangling vines. For those not familiar with the metaphor, the Flying Sp...
April, Geoffrey Chaucer assured us, is the surest month. Convivium contributor Norm Klassen argues the poet's immortal Canterbury Tales are a timely way to be with the Word on the Christian journey
In the prologue to The Second Nun's Tale, the last story in which a woman speaks in The Canterbury Tales, the nun invokes Mary's help to tell her story with words taken from the climactic canto of Dante's Paradiso The capacity to see both unity and Chaucer's humorous interest in all the details of o...