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The City of Calgary’s Municipal Planning Commission unanimously passed a series of amendments to the Calgary Centre City Plan on Thursday, clearing the way for the recognition of the role institutions of faith play in the development of the urban aesthetic ...
Young people, you see, prefer to live in cities where, perhaps most profoundly, they will no longer be able to really see the stars at night Non-urbanites drive to the office, after all, in five to 15 minutes instead of an hour to an hour and a half which is, sadly, a fate common for far too many in...
Robert Reynolds: It's true it doesn't get rid of it, but I feel the clause is unconstitutional because it prevents people from using public premises for any religious purpose Cardus: I understand, though, that while Paula Celani has won the case on the ticket, the ruling doesn't force a change in th...
It is possible that disruptive innovations like digital lending platforms, mobile banking, or the resurgence of credit unions are the guises which at least some deep disruptions will be wearing when they quietly stroll down the marble-lined halls of power For some time now I've been pondering whethe...
During this time, Buie received a message from his provider letting him know that for security reasons, namely "excessively high" data charges, his phone would be shut down ...
The well-told and well-presented Book of Jobes challenged its Calgary audience to think deeply about theological, philosophical, and institutional questions, even as it shared a compelling story of God's grace at work in the world today The play powerfully shows this, not only in the challenges Rach...
(The Cardus Daily's Peter Stockland spoke to Toronto lawyer Phil Horgan, national president of the Catholic Civil Rights League, about two events last week that brought freedom of speech to the forefront of public debate Cardus: The Supreme Court's decision last week in the William Whatcott case is ...
Some cynicism is protective and numbs the hurt from dreams never realized and loves found and lost or never found at all ...
The photographer found value in capturing the moments when strangers let their true selves show ...
Our 2006 Policy Options article "Replacing the Pan-Canadian Consensus" (a similar concept to Ibbitson's Laurentian consensus) suggests that this fundamental change in Canadian politics was already well-underway when Harper was first elected Still, one cannot help but observe that political process m...
Quite simply, I don't think you can sign up for pursuing "the common good" and hope to avoid at least some implicit commitment to paternalism—some sense that one knows what is good for others But is there really any ground for his assumption that creating political space for (negative) "freedom" wil...
Those "16 Days in February" were taking place at exactly this time of year 25 years ago and were the Olympic Winter Games in Calgary ...
While allowing that "a right to freedom of religion is part of a larger set of human rights," Natalie Bender still opined in the Toronto Star that "religion is too multi-faceted in its forms and contested in its practice to be championed impartially by any government office ...
Janet Epp Buckingham: One real priority is to improve the sensitivity and awareness within foreign affairs of different religions and the role that religion plays in various conflicts, highlighting the ways that religious minorities are facing violence and persecution Cardus: I got a message from so...
Cardus has long been an outspoken supporter of religious freedom at home and abroad, believing in institutional and religious pluralism as the bedrock of a liberal democracy ...