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As Ian Hunter points out in Three Faces of the Law: A Christian Perspective, the Court's failure to address the rights of the unborn in Morgentaler was partly due to the way the Crown argued its case, and partly because the Court had already agreed to hear the appeal in Borowski , which dealt direct...
In fact, in my outraged funk, it struck me that disengagement from political life is the only sensible option even for an ordinary citizen in a country where morally horrifying and intellectually fraudulent judicial fiat reigns supreme By ruling that existing full prohibitions against medically deli...
Certainly the Trudeau years marked great "progress" for the nation's social liberals, but there wasn't anything remotely fiscally conservative about them ...
The bifurcation between material and spiritual, between death and life, has been absorbed into many European religious traditions in a way that might be unintelligible to their premodern, even co-religious, ancestors Writes Nancy Caciola in Wraiths, Revenant and Rituals in Medieval Culture, “… intim...
Vaclav Havel is probably the best example of this marriage between politics and absurd theatre The connection between politics and the theatre of the absurd typically occurs when there has been a breakdown of some kind on behalf of the ruling party ...
The world is a different place as a result of such meetings and impacts many, including those who would prefer to have no regard for church life Still, the continued existence of an institution existing not for the benefit of her members but in order to provide a tangible witness to the reality of a...
In calling for the counter protests, an official with the CAW's women's program insisted such action was essential to "once again tell (the caravan proponents) that our reproductive rights are not up for debate More seriously, we see in the current debate over euthanasia a revivifying of the old, an...
The recent debate between the Ontario government and concerned Catholic parents and educators (over the McGuinty government's anti-bullying bill, discussed in this space last week) highlights the need for a more robust understanding and public discourse about the interplay between freedom of conscie...
In Comment's latest print issue, Adam Barkman argued superheroes are the saints of the state, the embodiment of the virtues and rituals, the faith and hope, that underline the so-called secular state ...
Coyne tells us that "the people love her not because she is some sort of saint, but because she is Queen, and she is Queen for no other reason than because she is the eldest child of the late King The monarchy will only be popular, and will only survive—it should only survive—as long as it continues...
Just like SSHRC is focusing research on the gaming industry, maybe it's time for the church to explore the idea further and make a concerted, objective effort at examining the intersection of video games with spirituality. ...
That's why it is so key to understand, as the young woman in the Bill 13 video clearly does not, that contempt for the rights of others is always a very bad idea. As Bill 13 was being passed in the Ontario legislature today, a parent's rights group was circulating the following video: "You Deserve t...
Recent events continue to confirm that media in Canada is undergoing a fundamental transformation away from dominant legacy platforms into an era of diversity and competition that should and could enrich the culture ...
There are interesting parallels between Hamilton's one-way networks and North American public life and dialogue The one-way street experiment has run its course in Hamilton and in many cities across North America ...
A culture of generosity is one which is indeed marked by increased giving and volunteering, but which is also marked by the stability that comes from a group of citizens who give and care not about public adulation: ...