Articles filed under Canada Today

1. Columns // Canada Today0

   Tidings of excess and joy

   By Gerry Bowler and ChristianWeek on Dec 15, 2007

   Statistics Canada, that ever-vigilant watch-dog of all we think, do and spend, has been keeping its Argus eyes on Christmas, and what it tells us is no surprise to anyone who has tried to find a parking place at a…Read More→

2. Columns // Canada Today0

   The media say “good riddance” to evangelicals

   By Joe Couto and ChristianWeek on Dec 1, 2007

   What are we to make of the recent New York Times pronouncement of the death of the religious right in the United States and the withering away of evangelicals in the political arena? To hear them tell it, the Earth…Read More→

3. Columns // Canada Today0

   The lasting impact of a life cut short

   By Frank Stirk and ChristianWeek on Nov 15, 2007

   As people for whom death has lost its sting, our natural and proper impulse is to declare our thanksgiving to God. We are—or ought to be—a joy-filled, life-affirming people. But sometimes God uses the stark, cold reality of death to…Read More→

4. Columns // Canada Today0

   Protecting children is our obligation

   By Joe Couto on Nov 1, 2007

   When will politicians in Ottawa care more about protecting children and less about their political futures? Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s decision to end the Parliamentary session in September meant the Age of Protection Act or Bill C-22—which would have raised…Read More→

5. Columns // Canada Today0

   Theists can be just as dumb

   By Gerry Bowler on Oct 15, 2007

   A spate of books in the past year has touted atheism while denigrating religion and those who practise it. Themes to which the proponents of a godless society keep returning include the irrationality of religion, its tendency to obscure and…Read More→

6. Columns // Canada Today0

   Tory trods on a hornet’s nest

   By Joe Couto on Oct 1, 2007

   John Tory, the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party in Ontario, is working hard to convince Ontario voters to ditch the province’s incumbent Liberal government for his kinder, gentler version of conservatism—not an easy sell in a province where former…Read More→