Terry LeBlanc will speak at First Baptist Church as part of Reconciliation Matters in downtown Vancouver this Sunday (May 31, 9 and 11 am). The day-long event will include an ecumenical service (10:30 am, at St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church), a…
While Ottawa will be the major focal point for truth, reconciliation and First Nations issues this Sunday, activities around a downtown Vancouver intersection will raise awareness regarding those issues on the west coast. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) will…
A law school that doesn’t exist yet has already been blacklisted by the law societies of Nova Scotia, Ontario and British Columbia. Each had voted to bar its graduates from practicing law in their province. It’s not because the proposed…
When International China Concern (ICC) began its work in 1993, disabled children in China had a bleak future. The great majority of the children left in orphanages would die there; babies often lay shoulder-to-shoulder with several others in small cribs;…
It seems that May has become pro-life month, with the March for Life May 14, the Catholic Church’s National Week for Life and the Family May 11 – 17 and the Focus on Life gala dinner May 25. Here Brian…
A new exhibit at the Vancouver Maritime Museum highlights the heroic efforts of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara to save the lives of Jewish refugees during the Second World War. Invisible Threads: Life Saving Sugihara Visas and the Journey to Vancouver…
Two conferences bearing on complex and contentious issues related to Israel and Palestine were held in Vancouver last week. I attended both – my first experience with these organizations – and was pleasantly surprised and encouraged to hear dialogue with…
Canada’s Ambassador for Religious Freedom took part in Our Whole Society at UBC Robson Square late last month. Andrew Bennett ably explained his mandate to promote religious freedom in the face of “barbaric persecution” by ISIS/ISIL and in many other…
JustUs is all about justice. Wellspring and The Elevation Project are partnering to offer a JustUs Training Conference for young people who want to engage in justice issues, March 28 at First Christian Reformed Church of Vancouver. Andy Harrington, CEO…
Slavery. Race. Religion. These have been hot button words since very beginnings of the United States and Canada – and they have hardly ever been comfortable dinner table conversation. But those are exactly the subjects that are wrestled with over…