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Social conservatism’s Canadian barriers

Has the passage of Bill C-38—the federal, Canadian redefinition of marriage—awakened a sleeping giant? Will Canadian social conservatives rouse from their slumber? Paul Tuns is author of Jean Chretien: Legacy of Scandal and editor of The Interim.

Rolling the stone over the top

In their book, Rescuing Canada’s Right: Blueprint for a Conservative Revolution, Daifallah and Kheiriddin promote a conservatism that is an American neoconservative hybrid, a conservatism that styles itself “fiscally conservative” but “socially liberal.”

Humanity was most fragile of all

Of Hurricane Katrina it has been said that her destruction was of biblical proportions. Since the devastation hit a week ago, it is a biblical verse that has seemed to put some proportion around what happened on the Gulf Coast. Psalm 103: As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field; for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more.

“Comment” Recommends: Soups

Brian's Butternut Squash Soup (serves 6-8)Ingredients: 6-8 cups chopped butternut squash (you can leave the rind on) 2 medium onions, chopped 1 chipotle pepper (not a whole can, just a single pepper) 6-8 cups chicken stock 4 cloves of garlic 1 can coconut cream Salt...

Agrarianism is misguided: another reply

“There’s a bright golden haze on the meadow,” but should farming be exalted above other vocations? Does farming have any more claim on godliness than cleanliness? Scholtens argues that agrarianism is fundamentally flawed in three ways.