Several weeks ago, Prem Watsa, an India-born evangelical Anglican and supporter of Tyndale University College and Seminary, made the school an offer. As it turned out, the school’s leadership had little choice but to congenially — and regretfully — decline. Watsa is president of Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. His investment acumen has caused some in […]
Two voices
Two journalists whose works are worth watching, for the next few years, are Ken Whyte and Paul Wells, both of Maclean’s Magazine. Whyte is editor and publisher and Wells, one of its preeminent columnists and bloggers. Both have a fair understanding of what has happened in western-shaped politics over the past quarter century, from the emergence of Preston Manning’s […]
A fast trip through the far west
Last week was travel time. So, the “left coast” and “redneck” Alberta are the two focal points of today’s and next week’s OttawaWatch. * * * The “left coast” is what Canada’s west coast is considered to be, by those who observe British Columbia’s occasional penchant for harbouring left-leaning governments, big labour unions and counter-culturists of all sizes and […]
Understanding the times
Don Bastian is an accomplished book editor, a serious Christian believer, a Free Methodist lay leader and son of a bishop of the same denomination. He also has been, and remains, a fine advisor to many Christian authors. On September 11, 2001, an opinion piece co-authored by Bastian appeared in the National Post, providing some astute insights into […]
OttawaWatch: Multi-track diplomacy
During the recent OttawaWatch hiatus, I received notice of a session at Saint Paul University in Ottawa, featuring Ambassador John McDonald (retired) from Washington, DC, head of the Institute for Multi-track Diplomacy (IMTD). McDonald, now nearing 90, was at the university at the behest of the head of its conflict studies department, Vern Neufeld Redekop, […]
Ideology vs. idealism
With this piece, we will have spent two weeks talking about Jack Layton’s death. I promise — and trust my readers to hold me to it — to get onto other faith-community-political topics by the beginning of September. * * * Readers of last week’s OttawaWatch may recall that I wondered what the clergy at […]
Dead … yet speaketh
He, being dead, yet speaketh. (Hebrews 11:4 KJV) * * * That text was the first thought that leaped into my biblically semi-literate mind on Monday, August 23, when I began to read the late New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton’s letter to his fellow Canadians. Layton, with input from several of his key strategists, […]
OttawaWatch … is back
… In a modest fashion, at least, OttawaWatch is returning. The last episode occurred in February, when I reported a hiatus, so that I could take on the task of communications advisor to Senator Don Meredith. As of last week, the Senator and I have agreed that I be released from my contract. As a […]
OttawaWatch: More about Senator Meredith
OttawaWatch is passing into history. On Monday, February 28, I will assume the post of communications advisor to Senator Don Meredith. More about him in a moment or two. A few weeks ago, things began to change in my world when the board of directors of Christian Info Society, the publishers of BC Christian News […]
A vehicle for a Christian community
It was just over 28 years ago, in October 1982, that the first issue of what is now BC Christian News was distributed to 300 Vancouver and Fraser Valley churches. Some 5,000 copies of that first little black-and-white tabloid were printed. It was the beginning of an ambitious endeavour: to use a community newspaper to […]
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