Reading Time: 3 minutes It is shortsighted to restrict ourselves to a candy cane diet of Christmas cuteness
Tag: Secularism
Cancel culture leading to an exodus of universities’ free-thinkers
Reading Time: 4 minutes Just as a candle’s flame starved of oxygen sputters and dies, so does the advancement of knowledge when starved of criticism
The beauty of secularism
Reading Time: 3 minutes It allows us to be honest in our quest for truth. No religion or philosophy holds a monopoly on the meaning of life
Religious freedom benefits everyone
Reading Time: 3 minutes But hard secularism and the marginalization of some Canadians are reducing our deep pluralism and chipping away at our freedoms
Make room for religious diversity in the workplace
Reading Time: 3 minutes Banning Quebec frontline civil servants from wearing religious symbols would show obstinate and dangerous secularism
Freedom of religion disappearing in Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes What we have in its place is a gospel of the secular, as interpreted by unelected judges and a feminist prime minister
How school systems respond to the pressure to be inclusive
Reading Time: 3 minutes Fundamental to human rights in Canada is access to a public education system that offers choice and quality to the taxpayers who pay for it
Are Canada’s public schools truly for everyone?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Saskatchewan ruling gives provinces the impetus to explore the alternatives to forcing children, against their parents’ will, into secular public education
Smudging ceremony crosses line into realm of the sacred
Reading Time: 3 minutes When a school begins to talk about cleansing spirits, it’s moving away from something that’s strictly cultural into the realm of the sacred
The best faith-based response to physician-assisted suicide
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadians need quality, accessible palliative care, not a quick end to life