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Our editor-in-chief on the symbolism of the Ottawa shootings, scandal among the A-listers, and the Great Exception to the sexual revolution
The words of our anthem were applied freely to Corporal Cirillo in those first days: "standing on guard for thee" at the memorial, at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier Well, eminently reasonable people such as Jonathan Kay, who confessed in an October 27 column that he had "no idea whether ex-CBC radi...
Yet when the courts strike down all manner of legislation from recent laws setting minimum sentences to prostitution provisions that date back more than a century, when they set aside the appointment of a Conservative judicial appointment, Robert Nadon, when they rule against all government proposal...
Nothing ‘bizarre’ about parent interest in children’s developing sexuality
The chairwoman of Vancouver’s school board declared it “bizarre” last week that a group of parents is taking legal action to overturn policy allowing self-identified transgender students to use the washroom of their choice ...
I imagine Rose protesting from the sidelines, “Be careful! Charles Taylor is telling us to swim in this stuff called ‘water!’” To which a wizened older fish replies, “Uh, brother: you’re already in it I suppose Rose is worried that people are looking to Taylor’s A Secular Age as if it were some sort...
But Simpson argued that a major source of our health care gridlock is the failure to actually save money by treating hospitals as almost-exclusively acute care facilities, and moving chronic care patients into long-term, community, or home care Alternative Level Care patients, as they're called insi...
The president of the Canadian Medical Association broke tradition last week by letting us in on two words that, he said, should get the attention of everyone who uses our health care system.
Christopher Simpson said, are “code gridlock ...
There is a burgeoning realization, articulated by many at the Ottawa event but equally by participants at earlier regional Building Meaning roundtables across the country, that Canada is ripe to begin recognizing the work of skilled trades—and all forms of manual work—as valid and viable and meritor...
Peter Stockland on Employment Minister Jason Kenney's message at the Cardus Building Meaning roundtable.
It’s an uncontroversial thing when Employment Minister Jason Kenney says he believes work is a good thing ...
In a century scarred by two world wars and continuously haunted with the threat of a third, it’s little wonder we often opt for martial metaphors But it’s a bit disingenuous to say the culture wars were just hyperbolic posturing of an entire generation held hostage by their metaphors ...
There is a long road over flat country, And I know this belongs ...
Two generations after women became a massive part of the workforce and sexual harassment reared its head, we continue grappling—in Jian Gomeshi’s case, literally—for the right response Even if a smidgen of the allegations against Gomeshi are true—and it must be stressed that not one of them has been...
Two generations after women became a massive part of the workforce and sexual harassment reared its head, we continue grappling—in Jian Gomeshi’s case, literally—for the right response.
What is so on a personal level is even worse on an institutional level as we discovered this week when two Liberal MPs were summarily suspended from their caucus following allegations they each harassed female MPs from the NDP in different times, places and, presumably, ways ...
What does it mean to be a pilgrim and pedestrian in our modern world? By doing nothing but placing one foot in front of the other, we are stripped down to our most basic sense of being, reconnected to a simplicity of times gone by ...
A former American diplomat and leading authority on international religious freedom, Farr is the author of World of Faith and Freedom: Why International Religious Liberty is Vital to American National Security ...
During an interview on an Ottawa radio station yesterday, the executive director of the Institution for Marriage and the Family Canada, Andrea Mrozek, referred to such programs as “manufactured choice” that lets government “give” Canadians something it has decided they should choose Or—who knows?—in...