Two British Columbians, including a new faculty member at UBC’s law school, made significant contributions to a valuable series of videos on The Forgotten Freedoms of s. 2 of the Charter. Co-presented by the Christian Legal Fellowship (CLF) and the…
Two years ago the Supreme Court of Canada put an end to Trinity Western University’s plans to develop a law school. The ruling was a sobering demonstration of the fact that our legal and political leaders have turned their backs…
Barry Morris: A Faithful Public-Prophetic Witness: Dynamics, Challenges, and Ambiguities of Success in Urban & Community Ministries, Wipf & Stock, 2020 Barry Morris is one of those rare yet needful ministers who not only have been faithful to urban and…
Last week we wrote about how Vancouver churches are responding through community food programs to the physical and spiritual hunger that COVID-19 is exacerbating. Prior to the pandemic, approximately one in 10 households in British Columbia were experiencing inadequate or…
This seems to be a year of almost unlimited government spending. The federal government (as of April 30) announced that its deficit would be $252 billion this year. The government of British Columbia is also spending $5 billion on a…
As we are emerging from the pandemic in BC, at least for the time being, other parts of the world are not faring so well. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported the largest single-day increase June 21, with 183,000 new…
It would be a grievous shame if we (Canada) lost this moment – this opportunity to face and redress our own founding sins – to reconcile and reset for the possibility of “relations based in justice.” There are some significant…
“It was a heavy day, my brother, and yet I was buoyed up. because I saw in the hearts and minds and souls, not just of the Floyd family, but of the church, of the music, of the preaching, a…
Roman Catholic Archbishop J. Michael Miller, CSB, released the following pastoral letter June 7 in response to demonstrations against racism in Vancouver in recent days. As protests against racism, injustice and violence are taking place in the United States, Canada…
Trixie Ling was walking in her East Vancouver neighbourhood May 9 when a young white man walking toward her began making racial and sexual comments. Though she tried to ignore him, he spat in her face. She spoke about the…