A couple of months ago, I was in Whitby, Ontario, making my way on hands and knees through my parents’ crawlspace. “It’s not that bad,” my Mom called after me as I batted at cobwebs. I was looking for a wooden chest stashed somewhere behind my cello and under a pile of shoeboxes. My parents…
Dominic Villeneuve est un pilote de la Missionary Aviation Fellowship (MAF) originaire de Kamloops, en Colombie-Britannique. Il a passé les cinq dernières années à Bunia, en République démocratique du Congo (RDC). M. Villeneuve a été l’une des premières personnes à être informée de l’épidémie d’Ébola au Congo. Le 15 mai, il s’apprêtait à décoller de…
La veille de l’annonce de l’épidémie d’Ebola par le ministère de la Santé congolais, le docteur Déo Ngatane a été hospitalisé au Centre médical évangélique de Bunia (CME). Il s’était soigné lui-même contre le paludisme chez lui, mais ses symptômes – fièvre, douleurs articulaires, maux de tête et vomissements – ne s’étaient pas atténués. « Je me…
A day before the Ebola outbreak was declared by the Congo Health Ministry, Doctor Déo Ngatane was hospitalized at Centre Medical Evangelique Bunia Hospital (CME). He had treated himself for malaria at home without relief from his symptoms of fever, aching joints, headaches and vomiting. “I was just feeling horrible.” The next day, Ngatane’s colleague,…
Across Canada, provincial leaders agree that the nation is facing a crisis of addiction but grapple with how to respond. Last year, Ontario announced that it would invest 303 million over three years to support community-led and delivered mental health programs, including turning nine Consumption and Treatment Services sites into HART Hubs, “delivering expanded recovery…
Congo’s seventeenth Ebola epidemic was declared on May 15, over three months after the first suspected case in Mongbwalu, a few hours from Bunia in northeastern Congo. On February 4, 44-year-old pastor Pastor Paluku Makundi Denis was buried and dozens of people fell sick afterwards. On March 27, three Red Cross volunteers fell sick and…
Dominic Villeneuve is a Missionary Aviation Fellowship (MAF) pilot from Kamloops, B.C. He has spent the last five years in Bunia, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Villeneuve was one of the first people to learn about the Ebola epidemic in Congo. On May 15, he was preparing to fly out of Bunia with Serge…
Last month, I drove under the distinctively tall evergreens of Mission, B.C., and arrived at Last Door Keystone Retreat. Nick Ringma was waiting in the driveway to introduce me to a dark-haired rescue llama with overbite and a zealous protective streak. “He thinks you’re a bear,” Ringma explained, a little apologetically. As the llama decided…
Jonathan Anderson is the Eugene and Jan Peterson Associate Professor of Theology and the Arts at Regent College in Vancouver. Anderson is trained as an artist, art critic and theologian. In his recent book, The Invisibility of Religion in Contemporary Art (2025), Anderson addresses a strange phenomenon: even though religion was present in modern art,…
When the City of Toronto released its 2026 budget, 30 percent of bike lane projects in Toronto’s 2025-2027 plan had been amended, paused or deferred indefinitely. This wasn’t in response to budgetary constraints but new legislation: Bill 212 (passed in 2024) and Bill 60 (passed in 2025). Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, a Data Sciences Institute Postdoctoral Fellow…
Recently, I wandered into the Vancouver Art Gallery to see the work of Tamio Wakayama, a Japanese-Canadian photojournalist. He was born in 1941 in New Westminster, B.C., and died in 2018 in Vancouver. Shortly after his birth, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and Wakayama’s family was forcibly moved into an internment camp. According to the…
Gaspereau Press is one of Canada’s most iconic independent presses (called “Canada’s most stubborn publisher” by The Walrus) with a long-standing emphasis on in-house printing of high-quality, limited runs of books. Founded in 1997 in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, by Andrew Steeves and Gary Dunfield, Gaspereau Press’ legacy and backlist transferred in 2025 to Keagan Hawthorne,…
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