I find it interesting that fostering healthy, rights-respecting relationships emerges as the most effective way to prevent bullying, abuse, sexual exploitation, rape culture and other forms of violence against young persons. Sounds Biblical to me.
Kathy takes a look at the 2017 National Budget with an eye toward how it deals with children and youth issues.
“M-103” has become a flashpoint for public debate about racism in Canada. In itself, Motion 103, introduced in the House of Commons by MP Iqra Khalid, seems reasonable. It recommends that parliament condemn Islamophobia and all other forms of racism and discrimination and asks a committee to study the issues in more detail.
I wince now when someone labels me an evangelical. It has become a political term more than a theological term, as a result of repeated public reports that over 80 percent of white evangelicals in the U.S. voted for Donald Trump. That is one of the dangers when religion becomes enmeshed in partisan politics.
Understanding our history and thinking about our future may help cure the short-term thinking that plagues politics by asking what kind of country we want Canada to be before we reach our 200th anniversary.
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Fake news. Information bubbles. Malicious distortions of facts. Inherent bias in reporting. Corporate control of media. Algorithms deciding what stories we receive. All these themes run through the public discourse about media in a post-truth culture.
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