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Often religious freedom, including the freedom of faith-based service organizations, is treated as a matter of a limitation on what government may do: it should not pass laws that require religious organizations or persons to violate what their religion persuades them to do or not do—and if a law wo...
As you cut through the hype and horror of the daily news cycle surrounding the daily movements of Justin (no formal titles among friends), and read his opening speech, you get a picture of a candidate who—despite landing a punch or two in his day—prefers to downplay the blood, blows, and sweat of po...
But as a journalist who covers the religion beat, I feel I can safely say the issues chasing people out of the pews is largely the same for Protestant churches as well In fact, there are now more "nones" than there are people who identify themselves with any Protestant religion—whether Baptist, Pres...
The voters and pundits, you see, thought the campaign had moved to Sesame Street and gave Mr On the other, it reflects the reality of modern politics: few voters have the patience or perseverance to sort through the spin and counter-spin of campaign claims ...
But this year, there we were—the three incumbents—with my son and his wife, my daughter and a young man who wished to make our acquaintance, another young man whom we had housed during his transition to Calgary and his girlfriend—nine of us, in all ...
And it’s not only cultural stories being bottomed out ...
If you are looking for a hero in the fraught talks that resulted in Lonmin workers returning to their shafts this week, there are many to pick from: the worker delegates who convinced their comrades to step down from a demand they had vowed to die for, the company that accepted a deal it may not be ...
The graduate data from non-government school sectors in Canada are evidence that public education—education in the public interest and for the common good—is also being provided outside of the publicly funded education system ...
There are enough holes to fill a golf course in Rory McIlroy's excuse for almost missing his Ryder Cup tee time So why would even those dull enough to care about golf wonder why some multi-millionaire 22-year-old kid couldn't get himself to the church, errr, course, on time? ...
The purpose of the cartoon project—"The Face of Muhammad"—by Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten was in itself driven by the desire by the editors to make a statement about free speech after hearing that writer Kare Bluitgen was unable to find an illustrator for his children's book about Muhammad The p...
Plagiarism, after all, is an academic sin, not a legal crime, so there is no "letter of the law" but only the spirit of passing off someone's work as your own Zakaria, Wente, and countless pundits are not original thinkers ...
To the statement, "Religion is a private matter that should be kept out of public debates about social and political issues," the Catholic and public school students agreed, whereas the independent Catholic, Evangelical Protestant, and home school students disagreed Asked to agree or disagree with t...
Intact families (children living with biological parents) constitute a mere 34.3% of Canadian census families, while step-families represent 4.9% And—now I'm going way, way out on a limb—it's worth wondering that it is not marriage that they fear so much as it is divorce/break-up of families because...
The tourists I met at Rideau Hall pop in and out of my thoughts often: a laugh we shared; a compliment given or received; an awkward posed struck in their family photo ...
The two men on the Republican ticket have somehow managed to stray from the ethics of one God, who values balancing individual freedom with caring for the stranger, to an ethic of individualism, which resents helping the less fortunate, presenting them as victims of their own circumstances (or mooch...