Oil pipeline politics in Canada is, in the short term, muted so that Team Canada can project national unity amid the trade dispute with the U.S. On August 22, the U.S. imposed new 50 percent tariffs on about $28 billion, or 5 percent, of Canadian exports. Since the trade war began in February 2025 Alberta…
“We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition. . . . The old order is not coming back.” Prime Minister Mark Carney’s diagnosis of our current global context has drawn broad agreement across Canada and the world. But does it go far enough? Is his prescription to repair the rupture adequate? Those…
How did we get to a place where citizens of the world’s leading democracy elected an anti-democratic government? That question is answered in colourful detail by Katherine Stewart in this new book. While the answer is not encouraging for those who care about good governance, it offers a deeper understanding of reality and some glimpses…
At the Christian Reformed Church (CRC) Synod last month, the denomination decisively rejected a proposal aimed at splitting the bi-national denomination along the Canada-U.S. border. The primary group supporting this proposal is Toward Christian Reformed Church Canada (TCRCC). Since 2023, the group has been advocating for Canadian churches to have a greater degree of separation…
Back in April, Christian Courier gave three university students a two-part assignment. First, to write an opinion piece sharing their view on the election (published online before we voted). Second, a letter to the new PM, whoever he might be, written after April 28. We hope you’ll appreciate hearing the hopes and fears of these…
Back in April, Christian Courier gave three university students a two-part assignment. First, to write an opinion piece sharing their view on the election (published online before we voted). Second, a letter to the new PM, whoever he might be, written after April 28. We hope you’ll appreciate hearing the hopes and fears of these…
Back in April, Christian Courier gave three university students a two-part assignment. First, to write an opinion piece sharing their view on the election (published online before we voted). Second, a letter to the new PM, whoever he might be, written after April 28. We hope you’ll appreciate hearing the hopes and fears of these…
Sixty years ago, philosopher George Parkin Grant (1918-1988) published his classic Lament for a Nation: The Defeat of Canadian Nationalism. At the time Grant was teaching in the religion department at McMaster University. A convert to Christianity in his youth, Grant would eventually become our country’s best-known public intellectual. Although he came from a prominent…
In February, when freelance journalist Sarah Lawrynuik approached a Ukrainian man in army fatigues outside the Odessa Opera House, he was understandably defensive. “You from United States?” he demanded. “I’m from Canada!” she replied, with haste. “Ah, from Canada. Good. Friend! Canada.” Both laughed nervously as he agreed to the interview. The interaction was broadcast…
I ended yesterday’s reflections by suggesting that, for all its insidious, even hideous, qualities, Trump’s threat to absorb Canada also represents a gift. Let’s explore what this gift means in the context of this question: how can we as Christians, and as a country, respond with hope-filled, constructive and effective answers to this threat? To…
Since President Trump’s menacing public shaming of President Zelenskyy at the White House last Friday, some Republicans have completely reversed their once-held positions defending Ukraine’s response to Russia’s illegal invasion of their country. How is such a reversal possible? Yesterday, I introduced the concept of ideology: societal energies of legitimation where the end justifies the…
I would like to explore how, as Christians, we might understand and respond specifically to President Trump’s threats to make Canada the “51st state.” Do Christians have anything to offer here? As a country, and as Canadians, what would a healing response look like? As a psychotherapist and social worker, I have an abiding interest…
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