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The Perfected Downtown
May 17, 2013 |
Kathryn de Ruijter
This past week, PBS aired a show called 10 Buildings that Changed America. Host Geoffrey Baer looked at, among others, the Wainwright Building in St. Louis, MO; Frank Lloyd Wrig...
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Le Parti Moustique
May 16, 2013 |
Brian Dijkema
The Parti Quebecois used to stand for something. These days it seems to take its policy cues from mosquitoes. Its preferred method of governance is to buzz loudly, annoy anyone ...
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Greatly Troubled
May 15, 2013 |
Ray Pennings
Yesterday's email alert advising of a "breaking development" had me watching the Hamilton Police Service news conference regarding the Tim Bosma case live online. The chief's op...
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Conrad Black and Crossing Toward Truth
May 14, 2013 |
Peter Stockland
Conrad Black refuses to play the victim.
At our Cardus Convivium dinner last week in Calgary, where Black was the marquee attraction, he asserted, responding to a question, his ...
Sacred Aid: Does Humanitarianism Need Religion?
January 16, 2013
By Geoffrey Cameron
Is there an important, even decisive connection, between charity and the sacred? Has the growth of a rational, "cosmopolitan, one-worldism and material progress" in aid changed the nature of aid...
Past Features ...
Uncovering Headscarf Ban Prejudices and Consequences
By Judd Birdsall
|December 19, 2012
Combining compassion with rigorous scholarship, Elver's book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on Islam in the West. By limiting her comparative investigation to a handful of secular constitutional democracies (thus bypassing the Muslim...
Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water or a Land Flowing with Milk and Honey?
By Brian Dijkema
|November 29, 2012
Canada's economy is increasingly reliant on construction: what is fuelling this, and what challenges and opportunities does this pose for Canadian policy makers?