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But does the musical landscape of our day—the type of music we hum when we're in the shower, the type that surrounds us and that drips down deep into the recesses of our mind—give us life? A world in which gospel hymns and jazz were ubiquitous meant that a room of elderly came to life singing songs ...
Gene Rodenberry's Cold War idealism had company in others, like Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, in which psycho-history grounded an intellectual approach to the macroscopic manipulation of the rise and fall of empires The disruption in our fantasy has in fact become so dire that Neal Stephenson st...
Premier Alison Redford last week attacked the Wildrose platform for promising to protect conscience rights by letting health care professionals and marriage commissioners go to court for legal exemptions from, say, performing abortions, dispensing contraceptives, or officiating at same-sex weddings ...
The events surrounding the crucifixion, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ are fundamental to our task of Christian public theology Those of us involved in public life, when explicitly appealing to our Christian motivation for these actions, are often quick to cite the Christian obligation of ...
If journalists and politicians, through their use of the English language, ask you, "Please, will you do my job for me?" I suggest do it! After all, it's not the fact that politicians speak to us like children, it's that they and the journalists who cover them take the tone of uppity school marms wh...
When the first patients die in Quebec next year, Canada dies with them It is Canada as a nation where the rule of law, arising from our universal acceptance of the sanctity of human life, prevails ...
Convivium contributor Kathryn De Ruijter reflects on the age-old tradition of Shabbat as a restorative rhythm.
Lately, though, I've been thinking about the age-old tradition of Shabbat (the Jewish Sabbath): a day of rest, communion, and feasting, usually preceded by a day or two of busy, hectic work, with family members rushing around making final preparations for the Sabbath While we believe that keeping Sa...
But if we mean a legislated series of moral objectives, then social conservatism in Canada is an endangered species, if not totally dead The term social conservative is beginning to lose integrity in Canada, if it ever had any ...
But seen through Augustinian lenses—the type of lenses worn by many of the Christians on the island, and worn even by the pope himself—the trip was a success even if it was disappointing ...
The party needs them and their commitment, so will do its best to find ways to throw a bone or three their way, but if the agenda is getting power, socialists are to the NDP what so-cons are to the Conservatives—"scary agenda" baggage that does not sell well publicly Was it a choice between power ov...
What that reminds us is that while John Doyle is fighting the true fight in contending that TV has surpassed the novel as our "most important vehicle for sociological and psychological truth," cinema actually laid a licking on book-bound literature first Whenever Globe and Mail TV critic John Doyle ...
The most interesting thing about this weekend's NDP leadership election is not that Thomas Mulcair won and that Brian Topp lost ...
We had Monopoly at home in rural Ottawa, but it was a distant second to Kiwi-inspired Poleconomy, a game that introduced everything from bond markets, to inflation, to major Canadian companies and advertising agencies And here's the real kicker: Canada's game of capitalism, undoubtedly a pinko-inter...
We believe markets to be the best way—no, the only sane way—to structure interactions in economic life What role should markets play in public life and personal relations? How can we decide which goods should be bought and sold, and which should be governed by nonmarket values? Where should money's ...
Apart from political junkies, I doubt many people lament the decline of significance of the political convention Until a decade ago, Canadian political parties typically chose their leaders through delegated conventions where the decisions were truly made on the convention floor ...