War and peace: This is a subject that captures some attention each year, around November 11. Over the past few weeks, the Canadian military pullout from Afghanistan has been the subject of much discussion. Until now, Canadians have generally assumed that all our soldiers in the Afghan conflict would leave that country. They expected this […]
Reflections from southern exposure
This past week seems to have been a time of some interesting instances of faith-meeting-politics-meeting-life, with a little southern exposure thrown in. On Saturday, October 30, Edna and I took in a dinner honouring Ezra Levant, a journalist/lawyer who has given considerably from his time, talent and treasure in recent years, defending our right to […]
A Don Bosco-ese mayor
Was there a faith-based angle in the Monday (October 25) election of Rob Ford as mayor of Toronto? Well, yes, maybe. In the small print under the photo of Ford on the front page of Wednesday’s National Post, there was an explanation that the football players in the background belong to the team he coaches, […]
From hither to yon
Ottawatch comments, this week, will run the gamut from Christian universities to minimum sentencing for child sex abusers to Canadian support for Afghan women. To take the last first, I just returned from a press conference held by CARE Canada, where a new report was released entitled ‘Looking for Leadership: Women’s empowerment and Canada’s new […]
Service beyond the Security Council
While the rescue of the Chilean miners has won the attention of most of the media in the past few days, some other breaking stories have been in the competition. One of the most interesting was the election for two temporary seats on the United Nations Security Council. Canada came third — and withdrew when […]
Counting in Harperland
This is two-for-one week at OttawaWatch. That means we will cover two separate topics. The first relates to crime and the census. The second offers some brief comments about Harperland: The Politics of Control, the new book by Globe and Mail columnist Lawrence Martin. My comments on the book will begin below, under the headline […]
Bits of co-operation
We have a few bits and pieces, this week, which should be filed under “co-operative works in progress” – keep an eye on them. * * * A bill respecting the manufacturing of crystal meth, sponsored in the House of Commons by John Weston (Conservative, West Vancouver/Sunshine Coast/Sea-to-Sky Country), very quickly passed second reading in […]
Cardus and rodeo sensibilities
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty caused some excitement among the political chattering classes, Tuesday, with a speech to the Ottawa Canadian Club suggesting that a three-party Lib-NDP-Bloc coalition would cost Canada 400,000 jobs. Your humble scribe ignored all that, meanwhile, choosing to head for Hamilton, where the Christian-linked think tank, Cardus, was marking 10 years. Preston […]
Canada’s connection to 420 million
There was a Canadian in the mix, last week, as a string of Christian and political luminaries eventually persuaded Terry Jones, a Florida pastor, not to burn 200 copies of the Qur’an, on September 11. Geoff Tunnicliffe, the CEO and secretary-general of the 420 million strong World Evangelical Fellowship (WEA), talked to Jones by phone […]
OttawaWatch: A matter of trust
Stephen M. R. Covey, who comes from one of my favourite Mormon families, was featured on the front page of the Ottawa Citizen on September 5. The story was entitled: ‘Erosion of trust costing country billions: author.’ The subhead read: ‘High cost of low trust like a wasted tax.’ The nub of the piece was […]
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