Minimum Wage Follies
One might think that the intended raising of the minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2019 is a Wynne win for the little...
The Other Saint Francis
It would be ironic if on this feast of the patron saint of writers that I did not write a few words at the...
Anselm, Show Trials and Truth
Saint Anselm (+1109) was bishop of the see of Canterbury, back when it was still Catholic, and remained officially so until the predations of...
Of Euthanasia and Martrydom
*I have an article just published this morning in Crisis magazine (crisismagazine.com), which you can find here. I will post it here after a...
Wedding Cakes and Walking on Eggshells
A blessed feast of Saint Boniface, (+735) the 8th century Apostle of Germany and what is now Europe, of which he is now the...
Beware Bagpiping Scotsmen
A bag piping Scotsman was recently fined in Montreal for carrying an 'illegal weapon', namely, his sgian-duh, literally his 'black', but more properly his...
No Harvard Anywhere, and Other Notes
Stephen Gordon argues that it is a good thing that Canada does not have an ‘elite’ university like Harvard (and, by extension one may...
Isidore and the Internet
Yesterday, April 4th, was the memorial of Saint Isidore of Seville, a bishop and doctor of the Church, guiding his diocese, which he assumed...
The Poor and Radical Man
There are as many ways to follow Christ as there are humans beings, even if many seem not to avail themselves of the grace...
The Advent O Antiphons
Today, December 17th, we begin the seven days of proximate preparation for Christmas, sort of analogous to the more familiar twelve days of Christmas...