2011‑2022, and is preserved here for archival purposes.
The next big question, according to Rolf Pendall at The Atlantic, is "will Millennials stay?"—and if they do, will they raise families? If they don't, the ironic demographic conclusion will be that Millennials may yet save some cities, and destroy the country ...
The less information the public is working with, the more reductionistic the political debate becomes, not only because the politicians can more easily get away with it but also because the information needs to be more simply packaged ...
Yet there we were, immobilized on an off-ramp of Highway 20, trying to make our way down a detour while Lucille (Lou) Pacaud awaited us downtown. Lou turned 105 in August. Even the digital clock in the dashboard seemed to be ticking too loudly.
Such "unstoppability" is among the reasons my wife and I were there to interview and photograph her for the book we're doing on 15 Quebecers whose lives testify to the power of committing to the days available to us ...
But over the years, as the Canadian Pacifics, the Imperial Oils, and many others began to move their head offices to Calgary it was clear Lougheed's mission was being accomplished Alberta then was a much smaller place but it was far from the agrarian backwater that many have assumed it to have been ...
That power is exerted either through the withholding of labour (a strike, initiated by the union), or through the withholding of work (a lockout, initiated by the employer) This is particularly helpful when thinking of strikes by public servants such as teachers ...
Last Friday, I was copied on the press release from Minister Baird's office that Iranian Embassy staff were being expelled has not had diplomatic relations with Iran since the infamous seizure of the US embassy in 1980 ...
A news report this week, however, had me spouting not the words of the greatest Bronx-Brooklyn Jewish rabbit of all time, but those of his irascible mustachioed nemesis, Yosemite Sam ...
He expressed reluctance to dictate that the developer build 3-bedroom units when there "may or may not be a market for it," and alienated his urban colleagues and parents when he said the downtown core was "not an ideal place to raise children ...
in a context which involves interaction among the proselytizing religions should be distinguished from its operation in a context which involves interaction among non-proselytizing religions, and further if special safeguards may be required to protect the freedom of religion of non-proselytizing re...
What struck me was how so many of them are convinced that the character and the plan of a single human being can change the world, when most often it is the unanticipated challenges the world's events present that reveals our character, changes our lives, and even completely alters the mandate and t...
For her courage and conviction McAvoy rewards her with the simple invocation, "You do After a sophomoric question, "What makes American the greatest country in the world?", McHale writes and McAvoy repeats to the crowd, in one of the series' finest moments: "It's not, but it can be ...
So with all the hoopla and airtime being given the national political conventions, moderates like myself have to wonder if it is really much ado about nothing Moderates, high in demand this political cycle, are being given a rare national voice ...
Evenings on my front porch, that very light illuminates the miraculous works of spiders and webs that leaves a favoured place to take a cup of tea transformed into a complex of eerily silent industrial projects, construction sites, war zones ...
Deborah Gyapong's journey brings her home to Rome while remaining an Anglican.
Informal talks with Rome began in the '90s, and in 2007, the TAC made a formal petition to the Holy See "to seek as a body full and visible communion, particularly Eucharistic communion in Christ, with the Roman Catholic Church" and "to achieve such communion while maintaining those revered traditio...
Michelangelo's David helps Diane Weber Bederman discern why the creative act requires a Creator.
Although it may never have been Michelangelo's intent, to me these unfinished marble statues represent the struggle each of us has to free ourselves from the chains of nature as we leave the world of instinct, the world of the gnat, the natural, and move toward the Seraphim, toward the greater devel...