Commentary

Here we see Saint Patrick’s Church, Stafford, as photographed by the writer on a fine spring day in 1987.  Both inside and out, Saint Patrick’s ...

Later, you will say to yourself, “I will always remember where I was when…” There are some moments in your life that are absolutely pivotal, ...

In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada called upon the federal government, in collaboration with Indigenous Peoples, “to establish, as a statutory holiday, ...

On a summer evening just before dusk in 1955, in a part of the City of Ottawa that had not yet quite fully adjusted to ...

I am not a racist. At least, that’s what I thought, until I read the book, Waking Up White by Debby Irving. The author writes as ...

At a loss about what to write or how to address the shock, grief and shame felt across the country as news of the unmarked ...

Last summer I took myself up to a large lake in Algonquin Park for an annual three-day silent, solo, retreat. Like all of you, I ...

Planners for the national capital were concerned by the 1990s that growth in the urban core was getting increasingly lopsided.  Two generations earlier, in the ...

One of my favourite contemporary Christian songs is “Companions on the Journey” by Carey Landry. As I listen to that song my mind goes to ...