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 […]
OttawaWatch: Harper’s first five years
As one of Stephen Harper’s biographers, I am taking some prosaic license with today’s OttawaWatch headline. In so doing, I will invoke four other names to put things into context: Lester Pearson, Bob Rae, David Johnston and Ernie Regehr. Much has been written about the fifth anniversary of Stephen Harper’s becoming prime minister. Depending on […]
Christian press, Ablonczy and Tucson
Today’s OttawaWatch will feature three disparate subjects, tied together with the recurring theme of — hopefully biblical — conflict management. Edna and I are heading west for a few days, later in the month. The occasion is the 2011 Mel Smith Lecture at Trinity Western University on January 27. Your humble scribe has been asked […]
Senator Meredith is on his way
For months, the rumour mill around The Hill had spawned the story that the senator replacing Peter Stollery, the Toronto haberdasher who had held one of the Ontario slots for a couple of decades, would be someone whose political activism would be, at least in part, faith-based. In retrospect, given the rumours, the choice of […]
Faith and/or a gold mine
Kerry Cook was in Ottawa November 30 in the interests of saving the economy of Williams Lake – without hurting the environment. Cook has been mayor of Williams Lake in central British Columbia since 2008. She was part of a delegation of municipal, provincial and federal politicians – and others – interested in saving the […]
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