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The problem with jazz Poll Do you agree with police and health authorities shutting down, fencing off Grace Life Church near Edmonton? Yes Truthfully there is no problem with jazz. Like it or not, jazz music has a long and rich legacy that tells the story of African pain being transformed into the majesty of the spirit expressed through sound. But you wouldn’t know that from the new curriculum proposed for Alberta’s elementary school students, whose music studies include the statement that “big band ensembles give jazz music a larger sound” as exemplified by music by Glenn Miller, and...

The Human Condition: Passing the princess test Poll Were you surprised the UCP government went back to stage one of its reopening plan on Tuesday? Yes Years ago I dated a single mother with a young daughter obsessed with Disney princesses. She loved all things princess-y and made it her goal in life to become a princess through sheer force of will. One day as we walked through a parking lot she threw a lollipop wrapper on the ground. Wanting to impress upon her the importance of not littering, I explained to her that she would never pass The Princess Test doing such things. She eagerly asked ...

The Human Condition: The mothers of intervention Poll Were you surprised the UCP government went back to stage one of its reopening plan on Tuesday? Yes In the coming weeks I plan to write at least one column on our provincial media and how it functions. But first I think it is important to discuss a significant problem that is infecting our discussions of politics in general: dehumanization. To be Liberal or Conservative these days seems, to the opposite camp, to automatically (and unquestionably) be seen as an ally of pure evil: nothing more than cogs in the great ideological machine trying...

God’s got this. That’s the main message from leaders of conservative Christian churches and religious organizations in the Pikes Peak region, as a Democratic president and what is shaping up to be the nation's most progressive administration are poised to take over leadership of the country. “As Christians, we believe God is in control, no matter who wins the election,” said Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family, a Colorado Springs-headquartered evangelical organization that provides a daily radio broadcast to some 7 million listeners and other services. In accepting the defeat o...