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Randy Boyagoda on how Father Richard John Neuhaus moved the world with magazines.
Since then, and beyond its most famous issue, the magazine under Neuhaus' leadership became, in the grudging estimation of The New York Times Magazine, "the spiritual nerve center of the new conservatism" and a "deeply influential" voice in American intellectual and public life I'm referring to the ...
Calgary city hall re-opens its downtown plan to accommodate people of faith. Peter Menzies reports.
How, I thought, could this have happened? Had we not just heard Peter Burgener describe how in all the world's cities—great and small—there is a temple, a mosque, a synagogue, shrine or cathedral embedded in their cores as if it were the bedrock upon which those civilizations were built? Was Calgary...
Michael Coren's high-powered media career includes writing best-sellers and fighting for Christianity.
MC: I think that for the Western world, race was irrelevant quite a long time ago, and in the United States it still has a certain dynamic because of the heritage of slavery How hard was it convincing the powers that be at Sun News that this kind of show was needed and the time was right for it? It ...
Father Raymond J. de Souza's take on a whipper-snapper actress and the wonder of Mark Wahlberg's faith.
On budget night, the Ottawa Citizen reported that Martin was at Hy's Steakhouse and apparently said something rude to the prime minister's former communications director, who promised to speak to the CEO of Bell, which owns CTV, on which Martin's show appears Haffner, executive director of the Relig...
The families at the centre of the Loyola case are determined to fight as far as they can to protect their Charter freedoms and ensure their kids are not victimized by State-imposed secularism masquerading as comparative religion.
No one knows yet, of course, whether the appeal court justices will uphold the decision of a lower court and rule that the government of Quebec violated the religious freedom of Catholic parents whose children attend the Montreal private school Elation at the Loyola parents' win in Superior Court wa...
This budget gives pretty clear signals of a different Canada, perhaps hard to get at because it is not about building but about dismantling: not dismantling the state—witness the expanded use of the coercive criminal law power and the build up of our military and security apparatus—so much as rollin...
Because of its place on the political spectrum, because it was born from deep conservative dissatisfaction with the previous Progressive Conservative government, Wildrose has the chance to give Albertans a vigorously effective opposition for the first time in a very, very long time It is true that P...
Instead of decent and respectful civil discourse aimed at addressing the key issues that confront our nation, we get hurtful and petty banter that reflects my childhood quarrels with my brother ...
A zero interest rate policy represents a wealth transfer from savers to banks, debtors, and leveraged investors Zero interest rate policies are designed to keep nominal interest rates below inflation, a condition called "negative real rates" ...
Would it not have been more culturally beneficial and honest to depict The Hunger Games as an NC-17 pornographic slasher film? What happens when satire loses its force as satire? When dystopia—"an imaginary place or state in which the condition of life is extremely bad, as from deprivation, oppressi...
But if even the ivory refuge of introverts is yielding its place in the shade to stop and have a good think, if even it must be reduced to bullet points and action items and publishing lists, we may indeed have arrived at a tyranny of extroverts. ...
If you place these numbers alongside wage statistics from the ILO, which suggest that wages in these same places have grown anywhere from 15% in Latin America to a whopping 109% in Asia, one wonders if the CAW is concerned about its counterpart auto workers, or whether it's more interested in mainta...
But if time and attention were afforded the proponents of these "social" changes, how can those necessities be denied the opponents who maintain society has suffered because of the transformation? How can there be no equivalent political time for them to press their case? It doesn't make sense Smith...
That's another conversation I'll need to have with him, though not today ...
The March 26th edition of the New York Times included a column by Stanley Fish which cogently captured a core issue which makes public discourse so difficult in our day ...