Reading Time: 4 minutes Taking shortcuts becomes a fast track to ending the conversation and starting the shouting. We need to build a workable partnership
Author: Cardus
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Palliative care suffers because of MAID
Reading Time: 3 minutes “It is easier and cheaper for the government to provide euthanasia rather than continue with palliative care”
New vision for CRTC is dangerously radical
Reading Time: 3 minutes Critics believe recommendations have the very real potential to limit how freely Canadians can access the Internet and what content they’ll be able to find when they do
Health authority threatens to shut down hospice for not providing assisted suicide
Reading Time: 3 minutes A B.C. private hospice must drop its refusal to provide medical assistance in dying (MAID) for qualifying patients in its care. Or else
Closed secularism breeds intolerance
Reading Time: 4 minutes Divorcing a spiritual practice from its religious meaning is problematic and a forcible whitewashing of something deeply and fundamentally complex
Cats turns literary genius into lumpy kitty litter
Reading Time: 3 minutes The movie is worse than bad. It is offal
Scheer’s departure shows political dissent has been crushed
Reading Time: 3 minutes Neither the Conservatives nor Scheer displayed the remotest capacity to fight back by hammering home the counter message about a Liberal Party in disarray
The invaluable power of healthy skepticism
Reading Time: 4 minutes Usain Bolt became the fastest human being ever by eating – wait for it – Chicken McNuggets, not following the latest health care fad
Religion should have a place in the political realm
Reading Time: 3 minutes It would be a gross violation of religious freedom if we allowed beliefs to become a test for fitness for office. Yet Andrew Scheer faced a barrage of criticism
An election result that reflects the country and its mood
Reading Time: 3 minutes Trudeau escapes again, cape and Liberal red tights intact and unsullied, despite the SNC-Lavalin mess