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What does it matter? Would I trade Chopin airport for the Wojciech Jaruzelski Martial Law Terminal if the bathrooms were rather more easily reachable? I would hope not, because names are important, and airports are the civic gateways of the 21st century, like the great gates on medieval cities Polit...
Ricky Gervais' comment, "The Golden Globes are just like the Oscars—but without all that esteem," combines humor and wit on the positive side with snide and sarcasm on the negative Sternbergh goes on, "When you are living in a nation awash in bullshit, it should not be surprising when people cry out...
In this week's Maclean's editorial urging students to "face the financial facts of education" and today's Globe and Mail column by Jerry Dias of the new mega-union Unifor, education and work are part of a continuum whose end is earning money and becoming a successful economic actor in a voraciously ...
As we heard in the recent discussion here on the Cardus blog about the Loyola high school case, the designers of Quebec's Ethics and Religion Culture (ERC) curriculum suggest that we want teachers who are disinterested or neutral I hope we send our kids (back) to good high school teachers who will e...
In late June, the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life released a report titled "Canada's Changing Religious Landscape According to the Pew report, recent census and survey data generated by Statistics Canada point to three primary "landscape changing" findings that are sufficiently significant that ...
The real sadness of Ivison's argument is not that he called attention to the Quebec Charter, but that in doing so he missed the real story that needed to be told that day: the story of an internationalist Canada at work in the world on the bedrock issue of religious freedom ...
Wendell Berry, a Kentucky farmer and man of letters whose work focuses upon a call to meaningful and loving action on the earth, repeatedly argues that an abstract love for the whole must give way to action in the particular; he writes that our love for the world cannot be "any kind of abstract love...
So, if Christian Horizons, as an effective institution doing good work at a good price, should nevertheless be banned from engaging in the work they do simply because they are a group of Christians (instead of a more nebulous, indistinct group), then what is the deeper implication of such a policy? ...
Jamie Smith, on the other hand, considers Daniel's influence exercised over people who clearly did not like him (hence the attempt to repurpose him as lion food) as the exercise of official power and the tool of government Christopher Smith uses power in a very personal way, focusing on the personal...
The appeals court vindicated Hobby Lobby's claim that, even though it is a profit-making business, it can reasonably argue that it has a religious freedom right not to comply with the new requirement that employee health plans must cover all contraceptives, including emergency contraceptives that ca...
Indeed, the emerging theme is one of "slow" activism whose expectations are scaled down from the grand (indeed, federal) schemes of "cultural transformation" that captivated a prior generation But there is a sort of vague Anabaptism about the stories and strategies that we now seem to celebrate—a va...
Discussing the American critical curmudgeon Alfred Kazin, Epstein writes: "He was a man perpetually ticked off, a walking wound in search of a salt shaker Brooks elaborates expanding circles of Epsteinian salt-shaker-seeking that both bedevil the American political system and perpetuate falsehoods a...
The Muslim Brotherhood retaliated against Coptic churches and by marching through the streets of Cairo While international discourse tends to focus on the extreme players in this combat, there is a wide swath of moderates in Egypt, who want a modern state with tolerance for minorities ...
Wood suggested that there are really only three major options for the 200,000 or so people that arrive in cities around the world every day In each of the three categories of urban housing, the human factors involved in the design or informal evolution of those living spaces is critical ...
The golden goose puts eggs on a lot of tables across Canada, but keeping her feathers clean takes a lot of work ...