A couple of weeks ago I posted this statement from the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC): Canada Summer Jobs program guidelines threaten religious freedom. It pointed out: . . . This policy change would mean that to be eligible for…
The Colour Collective is a group of artists overcoming disabilities through their artwork. In The View from Here, at Lookout Gallery, the artists “use landscape paintings to define and understand their world.” Painting instructor for the Colour Collective Deidre Blackmore…
The Welcome Centre is open, and it in turn has been welcomed by its closest neighbour, First Christian Reformed Church of Vancouver, on Victoria Drive at 10th Avenue, near the Commercial-Broadway SkyTrain station. Operated by Immigrant Services Society of BC…
The controversy over Canada’s first private, faith-based law school has been described as the seminal Charter case of our time. Opposition to Trinity Western University (TWU) has been vociferous and forceful, pressuring three provincial law societies to deny approval of…
Dear Premier Clark: I am writing [January 11, 2016] in response to the Interim Report of the Select Standing Committee on Health to the Fourth Session of the 40th Parliament of British Columbia. This letter sets forth the concerns of…
When Nanaimo City Council decided to cancel a leadership event – with just four days notice – because they found a couple of its participants offensive, church leaders feared that the decision would threaten religious freedom. Before long, the combative…