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But all during the years when the province's books were in outstandingly fine nick and $4 billion was being budgeted for trendy items such as carbon capture and storage, people were dying on Highway 63 It carries more tonnage per kilometer than any highway in the world, transferring massive pieces o...
How will the C of E handle the many church groups preparing to protest the London 2012 Olympics? Will civil disobedience, legal public protests, and social justice activism be tolerated at this global event? Other religious groups have joined the Occupy Olympics protest movement to uphold the flag o...
I cite the Stampede not because it is unique but because it makes the perfect general argument for the sobering benefits to be had spending a summer evening on the front porch with a novel's worth of Graham Greene's mater dolorosa dourness Menzies feels an annual compulsion to promote the mythology ...
This, after all, is an event that was started up by an entrepreneur, Guy Weadick, in order to honour the conclusion of the open range way of life that pretty much ended in 1905 when Alberta became a province and, as they say, "the barbed wire went up ...
But Quebec youth know the new priests—those who work in the temple of the National Assembly—are as corrupt as the former priests they hate so much ...
Doesn't our modern ethos often place "rural values" closer to what's religious than "big city values"? Before critiquing urbanists for ignoring religion, then, there is good reason to remind the religious that perhaps they have not taken cities as seriously as they should, especially in an increasin...
Father Raymond J. de Souza finds Quebec students going forward to the past.
But who are those responsible? An earlier generation that enjoyed lavish social services but refused to pay for them, leaving a legacy of constraining debt? The students' parents, who ought to have demanded higher tuition in the 1970s? Generations of Quebecers who, though paying the highest taxes in...
While the streets of Montreal were full of protesters and shattered glass this spring, Kyle Ferguson joined a procession that cut through the heart of the city, boldly proclaiming love, joy, and faithful witness.
The question for us today is: are we still embodying these inspirational characteristics of boldness, solidarity and sacrifice in presenting the Gospel of Christ to our modern audience? Are we able, as the recent protest movements have aptly demonstrated, to stand together as a faith community and b...
The most effective evangelization is living what you believe with conviction, says Scott Roy. We make Christ present through work and deed, not by soapbox preaching.
I no longer work with young apprentices on construction sites, but I work with young men on university campuses The talk, in this case, just happens to be the Gospel, in other words the life of Jesus, who was here to make God present However, I would say that my most fruitful and influential moments...
Nazanin Afshin-Jam MacKay's new book, written with Toronto writer Susan McClelland, is the true story of two young women who shared a first name—and an implacable commitment to life.
I told him I was working on the Save Nazanin petition, and he suggested I contact one of his friends, a prosecution trial lawyer with the International Criminal Court After sending out an email to all my friends and contacts asking if they had any suggestions of ways to help Nazanin, I figured I sho...
Travis D. Smith ponders the introspective essays of Ray Robertson's Why Not? Fifteen Reasons to Live, written following the novelist's period of suicidal depression.
Whereas Robertson is strong on the role of labour in a free and happy life, Why Not? is conspicuously silent regarding the significance of human communities that extend further than the close personal relationships one shares with parents, a spouse, loyal friends and one's dog Forgive me if my next ...
Renowned Canadian broadcaster Kevin Newman learned a heartfelt lesson in faith from World Youth Day.
The students turned away and marched through the streets of Havana shouting the Pope's words for others to hear With each paragraph this brave Pope spoke truth right over the heads of the elite who could see him, into the ears of the young outside, hungry to hear it ...
After almost missing World Youth Day 2002, Kris Dmytrenko found within it faith, community, and calling.
Through faith study groups and outreach events, CCO equips students to share the message of Jesus in an accessible way Like countless others at Downsview Park, I was renewed in my conviction that Jesus indeed has the words of eternal life and that He has never ceased to impart them through the Catho...
Ian Hunter asks his literary friends, The Wrinklings—and Convivium readers—to decide whether King Lear is a Christian play.
Now suppose that some humane person said to Shakespeare while he was writing King Lear: "Why do you make this old man suffer? Why do you torment him, drive him mad, loose him naked on the heath to abide 'the pelting of this pitiless storm'?" And Shakespeare answers by saying, "Well, yes, believe me,...