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But, as low voter turnout and other markers of cynicism will indicate, in our living memory Canada has not had a successful Prime Minister (success being defined as longevity here) who shied away from exercising distasteful character traits in order to cut through a difficult situation and ultimatel...
Considerable ink has been spilled and breath expended over whether or not faith-based institutions (Loyola High School; Trinity Western University; Catholic schools in Ontario; all religious schools in Manitoba) should have any say regarding their students' sexual activities or their employees' off-...
Others, and here I'm thinking about Hannah Arendt, suggest that insofar as we understand politics only in terms of power we actually demean ourselves and become less human ...
In garrisons such as private Christian schools, the bonded social capital is quite high, and this is a good thing At the time, I was sure that the data would work to confirm what many of us already assumed to be true: private Christian education was performing quite well in this competition ...
A review of the film Gravity prompts one Convivium contributor to cultivate a practice of gratitude this Thanksgiving.
Stone came face to face with her own sense of gratitude, not just for life, but for being alive At many points I was on the edge of my seat, watching as Stone tries to complete the smallest of tasks that meant the difference between her life and death ...
With this statement, Justice Karakatsanis recognizes the significance of religious beliefs and the importance they play in questions of life and death—but, in spite of this recognition, she jumps straight to a position that places religious beliefs behind the standard of care exercised by doctors Th...
omp, pageantry, press, parliament, pandemonium! Throne speeches might be light on actual content, but they never fail to show that our political institutions—for all their failures—are worthy of respect and reflection.
It's also a vision under fire: should not a nation "quartered into many communities, each disposing of its internal affairs" include religious communities, and the institutions they create? Are our schools and hospitals free to express the deepest beliefs of their founders, in the public square? McG...
Yet if we are interested in our place, economics and resources might be the very new language we need Yet language is important, and if we were to look back at the older meanings of certain words being tossed around, it might shape how we interact with our places today and change the landscape we pa...
For example, those who champion Christian involvement in the public schools seem to focus on Christian schools as "private" enclaves of retreat and withdrawal, "holy huddles" whereby Christian children are sheltered from the world And at the heart of the best Christian schools is an integral vision ...
If religion, then, is concerned with unifying actions as well as unifying beliefs, it coincides nicely with Berry's notion of caritas, a love that extends to creatures and the land ...
There was a time when religion was rightly understood to be part of a basic human identity, and it was seen as a mark of a society's liberal tolerance that religious confession could be freely expressed without fear of marginalization The fact that Loyola would reference what Catholic doctrine might...
It happened this past weekend at a conference in Montreal on Religious Freedom in Education, where Meehan was scheduled to present an overview of Supreme Court decisions affecting the free practice of religious faith in Canada As a collectivity within Quebec society, Sikhs make enormously worthy con...
To the long-term end of a thriving public education system, Benedikt declares that those who send their children to private schools are "bad people" for neglecting to provide self-sacrificial care for the public school system Though it is undoubtedly true that some "public" and some "private" school...
And with the final demise of Walter White, the heroic centre of AMC's Breaking Bad, there is something more than a little troubling about the type of hero for whom we find ourselves cheering I wonder what Dostoyevsky might have thought of a culture that produced Walter White as hero ...
If access to euthanasia hinges on a patient's experience of pain or what treatments that patient will or won't accept to treat it, how can any doctor ever say no? The bill hopes to protect vulnerable people from pressure to die using four criteria ...