2011‑2022, and is preserved here for archival purposes.
A story on the Calgary Centre by-election reported, to cite a representative example, that Liberal hopeful Harvey Locke "took a slim lead" over Conservative candidate Joan Crockatt but that the "Tory MP moved ahead soon afterward" and never again relinquished the victory margin ...
The then-opposition party Canadian Alliance expected this by-election to be its breakthrough in Ontario and poured all sorts of resources into the campaign, only to finish a distant third behind the Progressive Conservatives who won the seat and the Liberals who finished second The Conservatives won...
By which I mean that I began to notice the baser tribal instincts that emerge within people in junior high school and articulate themselves in various forms of bullying and denigration of others in order to enhance one's own position and status within the clan do not disappear or, for that matter, e...
Puritan John Flavel writes, "What the heart is to the body, that the soul is to the man; and what health is the heart, that holiness is to the soul Petraeus' failure, like that of King David's, is a bracing reminder of the importance to attend to little things—to the first things of the heart And so...
A clear pattern of response emerged: those in the "faithful" category would put the religious objective first, the emotive response second, and the remaining three in various orders below Both groups of parents' aspirations were "that their children will become adults who are honest and truthful, wh...
I challenge you to find a secret set of government documents that more redundantly states what this Prime Minister has transparently said, over and over: trade, growth, jobs Now, we have "leaked" documents on this government's new foreign policy: so banal, so self-obvious, so redundant that it's pos...
Then, tailgating hard on those two perilous pastimes, comes navigating a road under construction in Quebec Transport Quebec, which is responsible for the road building part of the fiasco, blamed the whole thing on a communications mix up ...
This is the domain of modern pseudo intellectuals who eschew rational debate by—based on no evidence whatsoever—insisting the entire story was simply "made up" (the faith that it takes to believe in a conspiracy of this size and complexity is breathtaking) ...
Hannah Brencher's call to arms for people to "love letter their world and lift up strangers with their words" embodies the second greatest commandment—to love your neighbour ...
There's a big fuss this week about a Queen's university professor inserting a "civility clause" into her course syllabus Notes Jonathan Patrick, a professor at the University of Ottawa, "The abuse of such a clause is not a totally outlandish thought ...
Lawyers like Arvay are pivotal players to whom we owe our rights, Harris argues, citing as evidence Arvay forgoing many legal fees (following the Conservatives' cancellation of the Court Challenges program) as "a practical kindness" to a gay bookshop owner out of principled support for the cause ...
" The instantaneous leap is then made to condemning the Globe for wanting to condemn special needs children to lives of learning disabled misery The negative response of readers to this argument reflects a debilitating democratic dyslexia in which the letter of the law is confused with the laborious...
In the face of Sandy, or any other of the countless acts of God that destroy, how do we contemplate the destruction of our work? Here he is, contemplating the death of a significant portion of his work: ...
Perhaps this is obvious, since Dove's objective is to sell beauty products, but I had somehow imagined the company to be full of people who were passionate about working to break down the objectification and sexualisation of women Dove was, in some way, giving permission to women to love their bodie...
There are many on all sides of the political spectrum in the United States this afternoon who feel less than enthusiastic about the results, or worried about their country's future The contrast between their experiences and my own is eye-opening: they attended the first church service of their lives...