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In the spring of 1980, less than a decade after the American Supreme Court delivered its infamous Roe v. Wade decision (1973), I was sitting in the campus coffee shop [...]

Someone at the Associated Press obviously has a keen sense of gallows humour. A headline writer there gave a June 11 wire story on the end of the bombardment of [...]

On the last Sunday in May, the South Calgary Community Church celebrated the ordination of a new minister, 52-year-old Marg Cumberlin. Some denominations, such as the United Church of Canada [...]

The UN's chief war crimes prosecutor, Canadian judge Louise Arbour, has long been concerned about the bombing in the former Yugoslavia. But at the University of New Brunswick May 20, [...]

When NATO launched its air invasion of Yugoslavia on March 24, the military planners and politicians sponsoring Operation Allied Force gave every impression that they expected the national government of [...]

Less than 10 years ago, on November 10, 1989, East German border guards opened the gates of the Berlin Wall, and the liberated subjects of the Soviet Empire were soon [...]

By the middle of December a lot of exhausted shoppers have given up hope of ever recapturing the exuberant joy of their childhood Christmases. But Edmonton's Mustard Seed street ministry [...]

Federal Solicitor General Andy Scott has announced his intention to have 50% of federal inmates serving their sentences outside of prison and in Canadian communities by the year 2000. Needless [...]

The 'one, holy, Catholic and apostolic' Anglican Church held its decennial world Lambeth Conference at Canterbury from July 18 to August 8, gathering some 740 bishops from around the world. [...]

For almost a generation, from the dawn of daycare in the early 1970s until the late 1980s, the natural family and the at-home care of infants had few defenders. Daycares [...]

Plastic surgeon Benjamin Shore was a little flustered last year when a 30-something female patient returned to his office, requesting that her breast implants be redone. A year earlier, he [...]

Members of the pro-life movement have long known that Canada's courts are not neutral on social issues, particularly when the subject is abortion. For example, judges have not hesitated to [...]

On July 21, a 62-year-old Catholic priest waived a preliminary hearing in Killam Provincial Court southwest of Edmonton. The man, who cannot be named prior to trial, was ordered to [...]

Among liberal Catholics and across the western media, Roman pontiff John Paul II, 78, has generally been viewed as an encrusted conservative who has derailed the spirit of Vatican II, [...]

For many, perhaps most devout Christians, the terms 'environment' and 'environmentalism' have developed the same connotations as 'Moloch' and 'neo-paganism.' The movement began some 30 years ago outside the orbit [...]

Richard John Neuhaus, editor of the religion journal First Things, has coined 'Neuhaus' Law': 'Once orthodoxy becomes optional, it soon becomes forbidden.' In almost every Christian denomination today, he argues, [...]

Although sterilization has become for millions of people the fertility suppressant of choice, choice is the operative word--you are supposed to ask for it. The government of Alberta knew it [...]

Social and economic conservatives have long argued that community volunteers can do a better and more economical job of doing charitable work than any public bureaucracy. Still, people tend to [...]

Time is running out for the federal Justice Department to appeal the Rosenberg and Evans decision. On April 23, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled that the federal Income Tax [...]

Since October, the Canadian Human Rights Commission has been engaged in hearings in a bid to stop Holocaust-revisionist Ernst Zundel from spreading 'hate messages' on the Internet. Since 1995, the [...]

Following the Supreme Court's Vriend decision, which wrote sexual orientation into Alberta's human rights law, Toronto evangelist Ken Campbell purchased a full-page ad in the Globe and Mail of April [...]

Mary Van Patten was home alone with her five children last December 9 when two Calgary police officers and an unknown woman appeared at her door. Her husband, Dave, a [...]

Tory MLA Jocelyn Burgener's controversial Protection Against Family Violence Act was approved by the Alberta Legislature at the end of April, despite complaints that the new law does nothing to [...]

Some years ago, Catholic priest Joe Christensen of Halifax realized that he dislikes presiding at most weddings. Most couples are already living together, he realized, either unconcerned about or ignorant [...]

It is widely assumed in the media and gay-friendly heterosexual circles that homosexuals are universally supportive of the gay rights movement. In their 1995 Egan and 1998 Vriend decisions, for [...]

Premier Ralph Klein announced April 9 that he was going to 'uphold' the Supreme Court's decision in Vriend, which read 'sexual orientation' into Alberta's human rights code. He excused himself [...]

Sitting in the departure lounge of the Edmonton International Airport last Wednesday evening awaiting her Airbus flight home to Calgary, Hermina Dykxhoorn saw a familiar face across the room. The [...]

In the heyday of the Canadian Human Rights Commission in the 1980s, the name of chief commissioner Max Yalden could make Bay Street capitalists tremble and bloodthirsty journalists squeal with [...]

Calgarian Maureen Hason and her husband Rob were having a rocky time in their marriage in the early 1980s, and they decided to go on a weekend 'marriage encounter' in [...]

When an Alberta court awarded Leilani Muir $972,800 in damages and legal expenses in early 1996, pundits warned that an avalanche of similar claims was pending. Ms. Muir had been [...]

Over the past decade, conservative commentators like former U.S. secretary of education Bill Bennett have warned that the North American university is becoming 'an island of oppression in a sea [...]

When the police arrived at the Winnipeg home of Bert Doerksen, 79, and his wife Susan, 78, last November 26, they found the small, elderly woman slumped in the seat [...]

Last fall, the Harvard Business Review asked Peter F. Drucker, one of the world's most respected economists, to prognosticate about the world market in the next millennium. His forecast? 'The [...]

In early January, American physicist Richard Seed announced his intention to open a clinic devoted to cloning human beings. He hopes to produce his first Xerox-baby within the next 18 [...]

The Governor General appointed Toronto lawyer Ian Binnie to the Supreme Court of Canada last week. The vast majority of Canadians know nothing about him, and probably never will. As [...]

Robert Latimer spent Christmas at home with his wife Laura and three surviving children. On December 1, he received a two-year sentence for the 1993 killing of his daughter Tracy, [...]

The number of deaths from AIDS in Canada each year has dropped from over 1,000 to just a few hundred since the early '90s. Most experts credit the introduction of [...]

Protestants often imagine the Roman Catholic Church as a huge administrative monolith, where the pope says, 'jump,' and thousands of bishops and archbishops ask, 'how high?' In reality, however, the [...]

Spiritual psychics believe everyone has an 'aura,' a mystical energy field surrounding the human body. The aura, which is regrettably undetectable by scientific instruments, is supposed to reflect a person's [...]

When one thinks of the Anglican Church, one does not think of the rather lively Pentecostal phenomena of 'speaking in tongues' or 'being slain in the Spirit.' Yet one of [...]

Even the Vatican is swept up in the 'information revolution,' it seems. On September 9, Pope John Paul II released the definitive Latin version of the Catechism of the Catholic [...]

When she addressed the president of the United States, the first lady and the other dignitaries at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington in 1994, Mother Teresa of Calcutta described [...]

At the end of August, Duncan Dorey and Janice Steingard, a divorced Edmonton couple, appeared in Alberta Family Court to decide which of them would get custody of their two [...]

Journalist G.K. Chesterton once observed that rulers sometimes become so arrogant, they no longer realize when they are insulting their subjects. For evidence, look no further than the Canadian Radio-television [...]

Health Minister Allan Rock, at the conclusion of the Canadian Medical Association's (CMA) annual meeting in Victoria last week, declared that, despite its problems, Canada's healthcare system is 'still the [...]

Some 4.5 million signed requests for a development in Catholic doctrine have arrived at the Vatican since 1993; 100,000 more arrive each month. These millions of Catholics from 157 countries [...]

Some 2,400 years ago, the Greek philosopher Aristotle observed that retributive justice should never depend upon whether a good person offended against a bad one, or a bad one against [...]

Lesbianism, in the opinion of one Hindu mystic, was akin to 'polishing the mirror.' Last week the ABC television network, and its owner, the Walt Disney Company, gambled heavily that [...]