Church sacrificed on altar of CBC
If there’s anything more bizarre than some of the shows the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation chooses to make on the Christian religion, it’s the explanation...
CBC’s attempt to mould us led to its decline
The CBC disclosed last week it wants to get more women into its television programming and into its television audiences. It introduced a winter...
Religion makes waves in Ontario
School funding issue brings essentially spiritless election campaign to life
The separation of the church from the state—a principle approvingly cited by our liberal set,...
There’s hope yet for our 30-year-olds
‘Me generation’ needs to forget completely about the ‘Me.’
With housing prices doing what they’re doing, how will young people ever afford to buy a...
Catholics get back to the basics
Whether Canadian and American Catholic politicians can remain Catholic while supporting things like abortion-on-demand and gay marriage has been quietly shelved, or so they...
Criticism has lawyers in a lather
There are two species of lawyers—the Big Firm guys and the Second Floor men
Maclean’s magazine last week produced a cover story that subjected...
Mounties made big miss-take
You cannot have a police force without a code of rules—most of them unwritten
I was talking last week to a veteran Mountie, retired from...
Country creeping into decrepitude
The Conference Board of Canada, a non-governmental, non-partisan, non-profit think-tank with a habit of stating unvarnished and often unflattering truths about our country, came...
Flash! Parents more influential than state
Statistics Canada disclosed last week that the interest of Canadian young adults in voting is as minimal as it ever was – this despite...
Disruption railroads Tory government
From the Native point of view, this blockade was anything but counter-productive
There’s an old saying, often repeated by my wife in dealing with children—or...
Story behind nation’s religious collapse
Church attendance in the U.S. is now double the Canadian average
Mark A. Noll, the historian of American religion most distinguished for his celebrated book,...
Seniors are next target on the list
‘Maybe I’m paranoid, but I get edgy when I see what they’re doing to smokers’ ming eugiam, quip euisim.
Every time I see the...
Counter ‘revolution’ brewing in Quebec
English-speaking Canada was given further evidence last week that an extraordinary change is taking place in Quebec. A whole generation of young people seems...
Education ‘revolution’ proved disastrous
The Canadian news media, so it seems, are finally getting on to a story that broke about 50 years ago, which they missed at...
Global warming skeptics score a few points
In the rising hysteria over the global warming issue, a kind of race against time appears to be developing. The question is: What will...
