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The slightly longer version of the question, perhaps necessary for those who have been away building the moon colony for the past month, is this: where is the video that the Toronto Star reported allegedly shows Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack ...
The public needs to stop blaming bad policies on the government and start taking some of the blame ourselves for the "common sense" ideas and solutions we support ...
As one of those who serves as part of Cardus' leadership, I would like to believe that we do our best to ensure that those who really make the Cardus symphony perform are appropriately acknowledged and appreciated Dudamel's approach prompted reflection as these meetings are times when the Cardus lea...
G.K. Chesterton was right about almost everything, John Robson argues, except economics, which he got horribly, horribly wrong.
Second, those psychos who do pursue money or market share with mentally unsound determination fail because people who are good at business don't get rich by cutting the throats of their rivals, associates and customers He felt that by concentrating property in a few hands, capitalism took it out of ...
Father Raymond J. de Souza has fond memories of the late Maggie Thatcher and the great Johnny Cash, but can’t recall NBA players being feted on the cover of Sports Illustrated for their monogamy, fidelity and chastity.
I have long argued that in 1979 religion returned with great force as a shaper of geopolitics, with the Ayatollah Khomeini returning to Iran in January and John Paul II visiting Poland for the first time in June The argument that it was Reagan, John Paul and Thatcher who won the Cold War was made mo...
Russ Kuykendall reviews A House of Cards.
As Urquhart (played by Ian Richardson) is the Chief Government Whip in the British adaptation, in the American version, Francis (Frank) Underwood (Kevin Spacey) is the Majority Whip of the Democratic Caucus in the U.S First, the sly joke: the initials of the main character, Francis Underwood—get it?...
Diane Bederman urges us to let tragedy illuminate the essential ambiguity of God’s will.
The story of Job is timeless because it opens the door to deep, internal soul searching that each of us needs to do during our lifetime because life is not simple while our yearning for meaning is multi-layered The chapters and verses are interconnected, sometimes flowing one into the other, while o...
The Supreme Court’s recent ruling on hate speech could have been better — but it also could have been a whole lot worse, say Albertos Polizogopoulos and André Schutten.
Many free speech advocates were hoping that the Supreme Court of Canada would overturn its earlier decision in Taylor and strike out the hate speech provisions of the Code as being an unconstitutional violation of freedom of expression While the Criminal Code definition of "hate speech" in Keegstra ...
Falling in love is like falling up stairs – nothing to fear as long as you follow the right steps, says Montreal writer Alisha Ruiss.
Knowing this, would it not then make sense to accept falling in love and allow the Spirit to work within that experience? We could then go freely about our duty, rather than averting our eyes and muttering something to God about being preserved from temptation and allow the same awe-filled response ...
Barbara Clayton talks to Convivium about Cape Breton’s Gampo Abbey, where the Shambhala Buddhist monks swing for the fences at the annual July 1 baseball game.
Convivium: In Renouncing the World to Get Engaged? Gampo Abbey and the Role of Monasticism in a Lay Bhuddist Movement, you make the point that it is a really curious kind of renunciation that Shambhalians are engaged in because they are very much engaged in the world, even if it is a pretty remote p...
An excerpt from National Post columnist Barbara Kay’s new volume of essays.
None of my teachers in high school or university was Jewish—although there would be a disproportionate number of Jewish teachers today—but most psychiatrists I've ever known were and are Jews The high school I attended, Forest Hill Collegiate Institute, served a generally affluent district in which ...
Our Editor-in-chief casts a gimlet eye over wrongful convictions, French National secularism, and Hamilton’s missing map mix-up.
The government of President François Hollande announced last December the creation of a National Secularism Observatory to ensure that groups, including religious ones, are sufficiently compliant with the laïcité that is at the heart of the French approach to faith in common life.3 What might a cour...
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Klein managed to manage Alberta back to economic health without the education, knowledge, deep reading or direct experience in the financial sector displayed by Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney, academic Roger Martin or our own Cambridge-trained economist Father Raymond J Did Ralph Klein accept t...
But recently with great earnestness host Matt Lauer asked Zachary Quinto, "What is it about our zeitgeist that so many of the blockbuster films are apocalyptic in nature?" Zachary was on the show to promote his film, Star Trek Into Darkness, where he plays the character of Spock How shall we, the mu...
Yet the term holds in it another irony: That for so many women, abortion was only an answer in the absence of real choice Abortion is the "choice" in that critical moment in a woman's life when hope went on holiday ...