(M)any still place a high value in the traditional definition of marriage—even if it’s the highly publicized marriage of a self-interested reality TV star. Kim Kardashian filing for divorce 72 days after her wedding was the hook for a substantial … Continue reading →

With our cities emptied of even the detritus of the Occupy movement, it’s worth reflecting on why it was so utterly vacant. It matters for the worse that the movement was such an utter and embarrassing flop, for at least … Continue reading →

The four candles in the Advent wreath signify four things: hope, peace, love, and joy. I thought of this last week as I scrolled through my friends’ Twitter updates and saw all these reports of unrest and economic downturn and … Continue reading →

At least, that’s what The Mark is calling the political and bureaucratic churn on the Hill this Fall. For the Conservatives, foreign affairs has been a relatively straight forward series of policies in the last few years: support Afghanistan, hook … Continue reading →

George Weigel has a fascinating article “On the Square” at First Things yesterday which surveys the the situation of the Catholic church in Ireland. In short, that church—massive, deeply connected to the political elite, and seemingly prone to moral and … Continue reading →

A report released yesterday celebrated the fact that more than half of Canadian preschoolers are in regulated child care centers or pre-school programs. Federal and provincial spending has nearly doubled from 2.4 billion tax dollars in 2004 to $4.5 billion … Continue reading →

It was handled as an oddball newspaper wire story to be played as filler back behind the truss ads, as we used to say. Yet its very treatment spoke volumes about the robotic mindlessness of modern media bigotry toward Christian … Continue reading →

This Thursday is Thanksgiving down here in the U.S., and that signals the start of Christmas season—and the season of Advent, the beginning of the church calendar. Though I grew up in a church that did light the candles in … Continue reading →

It is as though Coca-Cola, as it spread across the globe, turned out to be a great nutritional drink.”—Blake Gopnik, Foreign Policy The collapse of American graffiti, says Blake Gopnik in Foreign Policy, came when in New York in the … Continue reading →

Monday night’s Munk Debates saw two sides debating the resolution that “North America faces a Japan-style era of high unemployment and slow growth.” Debating in favour of this were Paul Krugman and David Rosenberg. Laurence Summers and Ian Bremmer—the wittiest … Continue reading →