Articles filed under Canada Today

1. Columns // Canada Today0

   Canada bids adieu to beloved Governor General

   By Janet Epp Buckingham on Oct 26, 2010

   It was a thrilling moment for me to sit in the front row of the Senate chamber on October 1 to witness the swearing in of the 29th Governor General of Canada. The ceremony itself is replete with historic references,…Read More→

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   Battle of the bedroom heats up

   By Joe Couto on Oct 13, 2010

   As Christian and other faith groups gird themselves for the inevitable next “battle of the bedroom”—this time a legal challenge to Section 293 of the Criminal Code of Canada which prohibits polygamy—the question of how to tackle this threat to…Read More→

3. Columns // Canada Today0

   Lawyer-judge couple caught in bizarre affair

   By Janet Epp Buckingham on Sep 22, 2010

   Q. When is your private life not private? A. When it gets posted on the Internet. This answer is obvious to most of us, but apparently not to the Associate Chief Justice (ACJ) of the Court of Queen’s Bench of…Read More→

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   Soldiers make safe the imperfect road

   By Joe Couto on Sep 8, 2010

   On a drive through the southern United States this summer, I could not but help notice the polarization of the society to the south of us. Republican billboards for Congressional elections held little back in attacking the current president as…Read More→

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   What I did on my summer vacation

   By Janet Epp Buckingham on Aug 24, 2010

   When returning to school in September, the first thing the teachers always asked us to write was, “What I did on my summer vacation.” I usually had something pretty boring to write; I played with my friends and went to…Read More→

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   Quebec court sides with Catholic school

   By Janet Epp Buckingham on Jul 27, 2010

   Finally, we see a sensible decision on religious education from a Quebec court. On June 18, a Quebec Superior Court ruled not only that Loyola High School can be exempted from teaching the Ethics and Religious Culture curriculum, but also…Read More→