The BC Humanists don’t like the idea that candidates for political office should be praying, especially in public. And CTV News appears to have taken up their cause – or at least treated their views seriously. An October 5 report…
The Standing Committee on Finance has once again recommended politicizing charitable status. Recommendation 65 Its Report, Recommendations of the Standing Committee on Finance for the 2026 Budget, encourages the government to: . . . introduce amendments to the Income Tax…
Shari Russell of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada’s (EFC’s) Seven Commitments Working Group wrote the EFC’s September 29 Update Newsletter. Titled ‘Remembering as Truth-Telling,’ she began: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day, invites us…
A local Member of Parliament is leading the fight to stop the scheduled expansion of medical assistance in dying (MAiD) solely for mental illness. Tamara Jansen (MP for Cloverdale-Langley City) introduced private members Bill C-218 last summer. It had its…
Military chaplains are free to be as spiritual as they like in public, as long as they don’t make specific references to God. A July 29 Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) post on the Government of Canada site stated: ‘This instruction…
Peter Ash is recognized by the UN Human Rights Council as one of the “champions of the albinism cause.” Ash, whose Under the Same Sun (UTSS) group is based in Surrey, has been active in dispelling myths about albinism since…
Is ‘sex work’ really work? Not according to Cardus Work and Economics program director Renze Nauta in a new report – true work doesn’t undermine human dignity and the common good like prostitution does. Cardus is “a non-partisan think tank dedicated to clarifying…
The political climate in Canada, as in much of the world, has became less receptive to refugees – so it is good to see that the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC), along with the Refugee Resettlement Roundtable, have made a …
On October 12, 2023, Ryan Cleland and Nicola Smith of Prince George, faced a parent’s worst nightmare, the suicide of their 12 year old son, Carson. Carson was targeted by a predator online, just one of a growing number of…
Food insecurity is again becoming an unwanted and anxiety-producing reality for many children, families and individuals in Metro Vancouver. Increasing food prices and rising unemployment are a recipe for a poorer nutritional diet or the lack of food altogether. Churches…