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Particularly with a lot of the rhetoric around why not to build a pipeline, many people imply that wilderness, if it is to maintain its pristine goodness, is not to be touched by the marring human hands of culture In its nominal renunciation of culture, camping puts a lot of undue pressure upon many...
3.1 For greater certainty, no person or organization shall be deprived of any benefit, or be subject to any obligation or sanction, under any law of the Parliament of Canada solely by reason of their exercise, in respect of marriage between persons of the same sex, of the freedom of conscience and r...
In our June/July issue, Comment magazine editor James K.A. Smith wrote on Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor.
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It is clear that a focus on economic stability and familiarity with incumbent governments (a theme we have also seen lead to results in the B.C Moreover, the feeling on election night—especially when the results aren't what you were aiming for—can be among the loneliest moments a person can feel ...
As one accepted as an advocate by those who have survived the abuses of prostitution and become activists for a community to which I have not belonged, I have engaged before Parliament and the Supreme Court of Canada; privileged to be able to use my voice, to the best of my ability, on their behalf ...
For those who argue that the lack of a social licence trumps the institutional democratic process, I have a simple question: is this really the sort of society in which you want to live? Disagree with the government by all means But to claim that thwarting legitimate public policy objectives that ha...
The federal Criminal Code has several provisions which conflict with the new Quebec legislation Now that the euthanasia bill has passed, the Liberal government is poised to introduce its own version of Marois's "secular charter ...
Contrary to our common sense, Parks notices a curious attraction to Rushdie's idea that "all the different stories of the world flow together in a great ocean of narrative And the reason Parks is suspicious of such storytellers is due to his low opinion of most readers: "People tend to use stories o...
The late Jim Flaherty wrote a feature for Convivium that we're publishing this month to commemorate the anniversary of D-Day. Editor-in-chief Fr. Raymond de Souza introduces the article here.
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When I come out on the porch, by contrast, through some shimmering signal shot through Creation, the robin evidently knows a stranger is at hand and flies around the yard in ways clearly designed to lead a designated predator—me—away from her nest ...
Peter Stockland on what robins can remind us about life and death.
Outside our back door there is a tree and in the overlap of its coniferous branches is a small, obscured, protected space where a robin has built a nest ...
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What I will be listening for in this debate is hints from various parties about whether or not they recognize this as a problem, and whether or not there are nascent ideas—however small and insignificant at present—about how government can enable, rather than absorb, the civil society that is needed...
Scott Ventureyra reviews William Craig’s A Reasonable Response
Even the "New Atheist" Sam Harris has said of Craig that he is the "one Christian apologist who seems to have put the fear of God into many of my fellow atheists Craig drives this idea forcefully when he states: "When believers in China and various Islamic countries are being imprisoned, tortured an...