It was a year ago (July 25), that Jack Layton’s cancer battle caused him to step aside from politics. Less than a month later, he was dead. Prime Minister Stephen Harper offered Layton’s family a state funeral, which was accepted. There were a number of unusual factors connected with Layton’s death that are worth noting, […]
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, […]
The lineup
When Lawrence Cannon, Bev Oda and Peter MacKay lined up together to be interviewed on the Ottawa political shows staged by two of the major networks earlier this week, they were doing what was necessary to bring the right balance to the newest Afghanistan developments. And the Liberal and NDP leaders, Michael Ignatieff and Jack […]