Religion doesn’t matter. At least, it doesn’t seem to matter much in Canada. Canada’s cultural magazine, The Walrus, devoted its June...

There’s a lot not to like about the Summer Jobs Program fiasco. The Liberal government’s insistence that employers conform with its...

A few times now I have criticized the public regulation of face coverings such as has been imposed this week by the Quebec government:...

Just as Quebec has outlawed the public wearing of face coverings, those laid-back, liberal-libertine Scandinavians have found a similar...

Perhaps you can help me with this. I’m trying to decide whether to find a new mechanic for my car. The problem with my current mechanic...

The convulsions over race and racism continue south of the border. Accusations accumulate, fingers point, victims and their families...

John Feinstein of The Washington Post is wondering aloud about NFL owners who are willing to hire criminals—notably DUI offenders and...

Dr. Arthur Porter is officially dead and charges against him have therefore been dropped. He is merely the latest hero to be toppled from...

My friend and “Context” colleague Lorna Dueck recently set out an eloquent case against the legalization of polygamy in Canada on the...

As we near our 150th birthday as a country, Canadians find it easy to be a little bit smug. Our usual points of reference—Britain, the...

The story of the resignation of the UK’s Tim Farron as leader of the Liberal Democratic Party is easily interpreted as an indictment of...

Last week I chided the CBC’s Neil Macdonald for his outburst against people of faith whom he clearly would prefer to keep out of sight in...

[NOTE: This originally appeared in Geez (Winter 2012): 38-39. I sent a copy to a friend recently, and it made me think others might like...

Yes, yes, I know. It’s horrible, but one can’t look away. The slow-motion car wreck that, for many of us, is the U.S. presidency...

“And so Her Royal Highness Princess Margaret, faced with the choice between duty and love, bravely chooses duty.” Or so went one report...

This past week Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull proposed to lengthen the pathway to citizenship in his country while also...

Molly Worthen, a reputable scholar of American evangelicalism who teaches at the estimable University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill,...

Canadian society faced another challenge this past month as a school district in suburban Toronto wrestled with the accommodation of...

American Vice-President Mike Pence set commentators across the cultural spectrum all a-twitter this past week as it emerged that he had...

There is much to fear and loathe in the latest example of militant and violent campus intolerance. At Middlebury College in Vermont,...