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Why Prime Minister Stephen Harper is proving to be one of the toughest opponents to beat.
Canada’s opposition leaders might have woken up today hearing a small inside voice asking if they now count among the crazy people for wanting to fight Stephen Harper ...
How do most North Koreans not see past such nonsense? Well, perhaps like all of us, they know what they know and can only imagine within the limits placed upon their imaginations While North Korea might be that reality most of us suppress into some dark realm of our subconscious, it bears a reminder...
On Parliament Hill itself, the main wrought-iron gates remained closed to the public ...
Normalcy seemed to make a quick Canadian comeback last week when CBC Radio convened a media panel to discuss how well the media covered the Oct. 22 attack on Parliament Hill.
When our village solipsists feel free to turn the public conversation back to themselves again, you sense the world returning to its established order ...
Instead of perpetuating the view that fine art can only be valuable to expert historians, could art be more universally invitational if a viewer is privy to the piece's imperfections? Perhaps this transparency of process could be valuable in our context today I wouldn't argue against the fact that a...
Another ambient mystery already percolating even as police teams swarmed through cordoned-off downtown Ottawa hunting no-one-knew-what was: Will this change us? Will we be a different Canada the day after than we were in the minutes before the killing of Nathan Cirillo, the gunfire assault on our Pa...
Peter Stockland declares that we will not be changed by fear.
The question put to McKay was the obvious ambient mystery of the day: how on earth, after killing Cirillo in broad daylight, could that gunman have made his way onto Parliament Hill carrying a loaded long gun, then gotten past Parliamentary security into the building itself? ...
This may seem a distant concern for a far off time dependent on the abstract whims of judges and lawyers breathing rarefied Ottawa courtroom air. It isn’t.
If tone and body language are at all reliable indicators, within the coming year, Canada’s Supreme Court will strike down current laws against assisted suicide ...
Leaving aside the constitutional conflagration that would accompany any proposal to defund Ontario Catholic schools, responsible consideration of the Ontario's policy options needs to deal with the religious school question The monopoly mindset that a single public school system is able to solve all...
He said the trial judge made a political, not a judicial decision when she ruled that the risks of striking down the Canada's current euthanasia and assisted suicide laws were worth taking While the so-called Carter case was argued on the merits of discovering in the Canadian constitution a right to...
The irony is that while some seem to advocate that the church default to a political and legal strategy as defining her response, the city seems to be adopting a most imposing posture of doctrinal conformity on the other institutions of the city The city of Houston has issued subpoenas asking five p...
This week’s Supreme Court hearing on euthanasia was about life and death, of course, but it is equally about a powerful clash of institutions.
At least two elements make the Carter case so noteworthy in that regard ...
"We want to encourage other people, and leverage the talents that exist internationally," says Father Sirico ...
At the Transatlantic Christian Council last month, Cardus executive vice president Ray Pennings spoke with Acton Institute co-founder Father Robert A. Sirico about how to have conversations about faith that can span cultures.
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Yet very early in her 35-minute talk yesterday, the secretary of state, who logged more than a million miles visiting 112 countries in four years, began using Cardus language: the prudential need to renew underlying social architecture The key, Clinton stressed, is making it not merely an informatio...