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Editor's Corner
The Condescension of Ms. Governor-General
You've probably heard about the recent speech by our newly minted Governor-General: Ms. Julie Payette, whose task it is to stand in for the Queen in a ceremonial way, went way beyond ceremony, and began...
Editor's Corner
Prayerful Protest and Niqabs?
Although I agree with much of what Father Raymond de Souza says in his recent column in the National Post, I must respectfully disagree with his comparison between the recent 'bubble zone' law in the...
Nota in Brevis
Hope in the Bubble Zone
Well, alas, as expected, Ontario passed the 'bubble-zone' law yesterday, as our once-noble Dominion creeps, or careens as the case may be, ever-closer to thanatophilic totalitarianism. Also, as expected, the vote was rather much...
Articles
The Faceless Niqab
The recent ban in the province of Quebec on the niqab, the Islamic face-covering, when receiving 'public services' (reserved, of course, only for females) has raised a number of questions. Is the State interfering...
Editor's Corner
JP II, We Miss You
Yesterday was, or would have been had it not been the 29th Sunday of Ordinary Time, the feast of Pope Saint John Paul II, crowned as the 264th Pope on October 22nd, 1978, and...
Editor's Corner
Hubris and Squeezing Stones
Hubris may be defined, in accord with its roots in the hierarchic Greek culture from which the term derives, as thinking more of oneself than one's talents, charisms, circumstances and office, permit. Our modern...
Editor's Corner
Will Anyone Stand Against, or in, the Bubble Zone?
The Ontario Legislature has just passed second reading on a bill to limit witness and protests outside abortion 'clinics' within a 50 metre 'bubble zone', as well as hospitals, pharmacies and the homes of...
Nota in Brevis
Ignatius and Peter of Antioch
We celebrate today the feast of Saint Ignatius of Antioch (35-107 A.D.), one of the earliest Fathers of the Church, bishop of the same city as Saint Peter, the third in succession after the...
