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Article content The latest round of arson and attacks is just as heinous. Early in the morning on July 19, a deliberate fire destroyed the St. George Coptic Orthodox Church in Surrey, B.C. The church was built by refugees who had fled religious persecution and intolerance in the Middle East, and believed that they had found peace and safety in the quiet Canadian suburb. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or This follows similar news that the House of P...

Canada needs more conservatives who are willing to stand up to anti-Muslim rhetoric from within their own parties — and it needs them right now, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

While you are out in the yard today, or walking the dog, or fixing the car, or whatever…. Jordan Peterson had a conversation with Rex Murphy. From the introduction: Rex is a Canadian commentator and author who deals primarily with Canadian political and social matters. He is best known for working on and for CBC Here and Now, CBC Radio 1’s Cross Country Checkup, writing for The Globe and Mail and writing for The National Post. He is a well-recognised and loved figure. I found this the most ...

‘More people were involved than we would like to believe’ Re: Why so many children died at Indian Residential Schools , Tristin Hopper, May 29 I write from a position of sorrow, yet little surprise. As a Secwepemc person who walked the grounds as a guide in 1999 at the Secwepemc Museum, which is adjacent the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, I shared with visiting tourists the horrific stories of the school, including the numerous child...

‘More people were involved than we would like to believe’ Re: Why so many children died at Indian Residential Schools , Tristin Hopper, May 29 I write from a position of sorrow, yet little surprise. As a Secwepemc person who walked the grounds as a guide in 1999 at the Secwepemc Museum, which is adjacent the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, I shared with visiting tourists the horrific stories of the school, including the numerous child...

As the lone MP out of all of them, every party, every leader, she called a halt to a disastrous major change and precedent involving the Canadian constitution

Article content The federal government has long looked down its nose at Newfoundland and Labrador as an economic sink-hole, so you can understand the pride premier Danny Williams must have felt when he told the Toronto Economic Club in 2007 that his province had “turned the fiscal corner.” Williams’ government recorded a budgetary surplus that year, allowing it to bring in the biggest tax reduction in the province’s history. Williams boasted in that year’s Throne Speech that his provi...

Federal government sources concede it is the expired canary in a coalmine where other provinces are already showing signs of gasping for air

Rex Murphy: Its hard, hard times in Newfoundland. And it doesnt look hopeful Rex Murphy © Provided by National Post The fishing village of Joe Batts Arm, Fogo Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, is seen in an undated file photo. The province is facing its greatest crisis since the collapse of the cod fishery, writes Rex Murphy. It was 87 years ago and under pressure of entering full bankruptcy that Newfoundland became the first of the British Empire’s “Dominions” to giv...

The mind rebels. It is so difficult to understand. The mind rebels. It is so difficult to understand For do not all the books of the law which govern the darkness of pipelines have but one target, and the commandments which govern them apply to one province alone: Alberta? Thou shall not build a new pipeline in the land of Alberta. Neither under the ground, nor on the ground above, nor on rails. It is forbidden. And thou shalt not support the ones that are already there, for it is a wholesome t...