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Ken Lewenza, the head of the union representing the workers at the EMD plant, suggests that the closure "open[s] a door for multinational corporations to feel confident they can do whatever they want, to destroy communities and the lives of people and get away with it In a richly ironic way, Mitch D...
What was overlooked in much of the coverage, however, was what the policy demonstrated about our understanding (or lack thereof) of the connection between religion and the public good—and how that connection is often expressed through institutions ...
A prime example of that fighting spirit is the entry into the North American print market of a magazine called Intelligent Life, a sumptuous, oversized style, culture, and travel magazine published by, of all outfits, The Economist As writer Ian Leslie argues in an Intelligent Life column, the loss ...
For almost fifty years, the CRTC denied any licenses to religious broadcasters to spare the airwaves of speech in which one group was unduly critical of another To suggest, as does the CRTC decision, that public discussion of religion is so sensitive that it requires carefully crafted guidelines (wh...
How is God present to creation? How does he act in this world? Being creatures of this God, how should we understand our presence in this world? How should we act in it? How does our presence and action relate to God's? If we think that God acts independently of us, then our artistic task will not b...
The response from conservative and libertarian Catholics has been fierce as a battle for Vatican foreign policy is waged between the faithful over the moral architecture of the global economy Vatican foreign policy has a unique position in the global economy: unlike other developed powers it has les...
Speaking to the American union movement (a community in worse shape than Canada's), Daly suggests that while the technical problems noted by unions such as CAW and CEP are important and require technical solutions including, perhaps, the merger that CAW and CEP are proposing, First, that trade union...
I must confess that starting to plan a party and thinking about a gift more than five years in advance is something I had never done before, but as someone reminded us in the conversation, perhaps the greatest gift we can bring to the party are not noble statements of what we intend to do, but rathe...
The future of charitable giving, and the vibrancy of the charitable sector, will be influenced much more by social and cultural conditions than by the limited tools available to government Indeed in 2008, based on the Canadian trend of increased population and higher incomes, the federal government ...
What you cannot miss in Montreal today, of course, is that much of the urban core is situational squalor that leaks off the streets and pools underground at the Metro turnstiles ...
Isaiah Berlin split intellectuals into these two groups: foxes, who know a great deal about many things, and hedgehogs, who know one big thing All people, foxes and intellectuals of any stripe, who receive that truth, know one big thing ...
The reason why Cubans in tandem shout "Viva la revolucion, Viva Fide!" (and more recently "Viva Raul") is that Fidel has consciously cultivated a cult of personality in which his history is equated with the history of the Cuban communist state ...
Last night, the City of Calgary convened a meeting with the city's faith communities In the past few years, Cardus has convened meetings, consulted with stakeholders, commissioned research reports, contributed to the editorial pages and other media all with a view to stimulating a public conversatio...
Blaming the cake for what happens when we refuse that free gift makes as much sense as blaming the cutting board on which it sits Kyle Bennett, Comment magazine's reviews editor, stirred up a fuss among readers last week with an essay scalding makers of a popular board game for designing it to provo...
But this shouldn't give us incentive to brush fashion aside as if its superfluous or peripheral to the Christian life Fashion, too, is and can be an exercise in Christian obedience and worship. ...