2011‑2022, and is preserved here for archival purposes.
If local people have no access to education and nowhere to collect and share their knowledge, then establishing a college that grows from that local soil by using local resources makes sense ...
Christian colleges are public colleges too, filled with voters and citizens, convicted and often working for the common good ...
The ground for the legal fight was laid back in October 2009, when Celani and friends belonging to a lay Catholic organization paid $700 for a few hours rental of the Maison du Brasseur in Lachine, on the southwest edge of Montreal But the case was put over until February 22, 2012 when Celani's lawy...
"We are excited to welcome Caiden, the seven billionth resident, to Ottawa," said Jim Watson ...
I met with a student and her mother interested in the college at which I teach this morning, and as I explained for them—as I have for a dozen others recently—why I teach here and why I think it's important, it struck me once again that it's not so much that I love the institution itself, but that m...
Canadian legislation undergoes none of that: our Prime Minister commands the confidence of a House he or she normally has a majority in, and so the government can make whatever unpopular or arcane laws it sees fit, provided it is willing face the electorate on that record every four years or so Maki...
The Jesusween movement was begun because "the world and its system have a day set aside (October 31st) to celebrate ungodly images and evil characters while Christians all over the world participate, hide or just stay quiet on Halloween day ...
Lawrence Martin's recent Globe and Mail column talked about the change of the Canadian brand under the Conservative government, labelling it a voter-approved changed "from a country of Ken Dryden values to one closer to those of Don Cherry Don Cherry's appeal comes because he talks about loyalty to ...
The people are demoralized, public opinion silenced, homes covered with mortgages, labor impoverished, and the land concentrating in the hands of capitalists ...
When that subway announcement comes on, if you're a healthy young person who hasn't given up his seat to the pregnant lady standing and clutching the rail, well, don't we look sheepish now? And the more we practice that, the more the shamed practice (of giving up a seat) becomes a habit (of courtesy...
It takes uncharacteristic idealism, maybe even huge naïveté, to suggest that slow justice rather than fast revolution can fix anything; that the system, the people, can survive slow repair or even that there is enough redeemable in it to justify the enormous patience of reform Power just spent the l...
The New York Times published an article this week opining on the evangelical rejection of reason ...
What I do know is that communicating a sense of entitlement and privilege with religious language is not the sort of faith in public life I am advocating. Anita Perry's outburst last week that her husband, an outspoken evangelical running for the Republican Presidential nomination, was being "brutal...
It's a habit that has to be distinguished from the great roiling public acts of law-breaking such as the hockey and G20 riots that have plagued Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal in the past few years ...
On the cusp of launching a new publication to further the organization's mission of renewing Canada's social architecture, Cardus President Michael Van Pelt sat down with Convivium to explain the objectives for this venture and its overall purpose in the Canadian public policy sphere.
MVP: From a social architecture point of view, the reality is that The Convivium Project is going to infuse religion and belief into a public dialogue that is often missing, sometimes unwanted, but surely is more meaningful now than ever On the cusp of launching a new publication to further the orga...