Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson’s website recently announced that his Engaged City Task Force is launching some “steps to modernize civic engagement” and some new online tools to achieve that goal. Noting how ironic it is that unprecedented access to communication technologies “should… Read more →
This weekend Vancouver celebrates Stanley Park’s 125th birthday. Five ‘festival zones’ around the park will host a wide variety of activities, from concerts, historical tours and cricket games to Coast Salish cultural displays and nature walks. It looks like a… Read more →
Deans of several law schools across Canada have maintained that Trinity Western University’s faith-based community covenant asking students to commit themselves to certain behavioural standards is discriminatory, particularly toward LGBT people. Janet Epp Buckingham, a lawyer and director of Trinity’s… Read more →
Abbotsford has often been described as the Bible Belt. Novelist Caroline Adderson said in Sitting Practice that there are “more churches per capita” and more people who use the Bible as a weapon to “slam down hard across a child’s knuckles… Read more →
Footprints in the Sand (“I love you and will never leave you . . . When you saw only one set of footprints, It was then that I carried you.”) will be 50 years old next fall, and HarperCollinsCanada is on… Read more →
