Simeon Garratt is hoping Prime Minister Stephen Harper will not cancel his trip to China next week, even if Harper feels he will have to cut the journey short to be back in Canada for Remembrance Day services November 11.…
Reprinted with permission from TheTyee.ca. Forty-eight of us are standing on the banks of the Fraser River at the Lytton ferry under a hot September sun. We’ve just been told that the bus we were supposed to take to the…
This is the kind of week that makes you realize just how deep and wide and vibrant the Church of Vancouver really is. As we survey a number – by no means all – of the events happening around Metro…
Ross Douthat is young (34), influential (a columnist for the New York Times), Roman Catholic and conservative. He should be ideal to deliver Regent College’s 2014 Laing Lectures. “I am an idiosyncratic conservative writing a column for a majority-liberal readership,”…
A discontented person thinks about what they don’t have and is miserable. A contented person thinks about what they do have and is thankful. But a truly blessed person thinks about how they can share what God has given them…
There’s a new movement in town. Atesto – Portuguese for ‘testimony’ – is about empowering the local church, encouraging worship and fostering creativity in a new generation. If you’re at the York Theatre on Commercial Drive this Saturday (October 4),…
The Harper government’s new prostitution Bill C-36 (the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act) has polarized stakeholders, as evidenced in the ongoing hearings before the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee. There is no consensus among social service agencies…