2011‑2022, and is preserved here for archival purposes.
The Liberal Party of Canada, in their desire to "vote as one" in Canada's House of Commons regarding the contentious issue of abortion, has decided to implement a leader-enforced community covenant in which candidates pledge to vote pro-choice on any abortion-related vote ...
A few weeks ago a California primary school, in an attempt to teach how propaganda works, required its eighth grade students to investigate whether or not the holocaust actually happened Some people claim the Holocaust is not an actual event, but instead is a propaganda tool that was used for politi...
"I'm here to illuminate people of religious faith and the contributions they make. They're everywhere, and in Canada they're not talked about enough."
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Social media are simply new forms of institutions, no better or worse than institutional forms of ages past And, for better or worse, Facebook is for today what faith-based institutions were for many communities not too many years ago: places for social interaction, event announcements, worship, con...
While apologists of place and defenders of localism might hear this and start wringing their hands at such placeless mobility, they do so failing to realize the wonderful human resilience evident in our ability to adapt and change to new places and our ability to be "home" in multiple places ...
Dismiss this if you like as the churlishness of a Westerner who has lived many years in Quebec, but Justin Trudeau reminds me of a one-eyed inebriate playing whack-a-mole The problem, alas, is not that the Liberal leader failed to use his head this time in his laudable, on-target opposition to the Q...
Peter Stockland on Justin Trudeau's recent announcement regarding pro-life party members.
Setting aside my reflexive loathing of Pierre Elliott Trudeau as a prime minister, I praised his son—despite the many sins of the father—for his immediate and pointed rejection of Quebec’s odious Charter of Values ...
Fr. de Souza discusses Pope Francis'pontifical style.
VATICAN CITY - Canonization week in Rome was about more than just the new papal saints ...
The introduction sets out a clear and plausible rationale for the book (ignored by Smith): that the politics of a nation can't be grasped apart from its underlying culture and religion; that American culture and religion have left American (Christian) citizens burdened by a "national civil religion"...
Again, in a free society, are we not a bit concerned that private conversations that might not have held up in a court of law are now held up to the court of public opinion in order for swift justice to be enacted? Recall that the NBA knew Sterling had racist views and that Sterling had even settle...
Afterward, Boutros chatted with Cardus executive vice president Ray Pennings about why human rights matter to him, how law enforcement doesn't always work the way it's supposed to, and what IJM is doing to help make a difference. ...
The Locust Effect co-author Victor Boutros was interviewed by Cardus executive vice president Ray Pennings following an appearance in Ottawa May 1, 2014, with International Justice Mission Canada
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What is at stake is whether we are willing to place one civil society association's regime of tolerance (TWU) against another's (LSUC and NSBS) It's likely that this attempt to target their intolerance on particular individuals will be headed to the Supreme Court, which will be faced with the decisi...
The basis of the LSUC's decision and virtually all the objections to TWU graduates being licensed to practice law in Ontario stems from TWU's Community Covenant which pledges students to abstaining from certain activities and behaviours during their studies including the viewing of pornography, the ...
The passing of former Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has prompted a bit of an elbowing competition regarding the definition of economic conservatism Less noticed than the amount of spending but equally important, suggested the Prime Minister, was that simultaneous with getting the dollars out of the ...