CAN BIG BROWN WIN THE TRIPLE CROWN?

This afternoon about six o’clock a sleek stallion named Big Brown will bolt from the poll position, tear down the track at Belmont and in all likelihood win the Triple Crown, the first time a horse has done so since Affirmed in 1978. It’s all the [...]

SHOULD YOU BE FORCED TO UNDERGO CHEMO?

An 11-year-old Hamilton boy, who likes singing and dancing and writing stories, was diagnosed with leukemia four year ago. He underwent chemotherapy and this January celebrated one year cancer-free. But the disease came back in February. The boy did one round of chemotherapy, then decided to stop aggressive treatments in favour of natural [...]

SHOULD QUEEN’S PARK DROP THE LORD’S PRAYER?

Thousands of Ontarians have signed petitions and sent on-line submissions urging Premier Dalton McGuinty to retain the Lord’s Prayer at the beginning of each day in the Legislature.
McGuinty says he believes that the Ontario legislative day should begin with a more inclusive opening that reflects the province’s diverse communities. “We continue to change [...]

IS REV. WRIGHT HURTING OBAMA?

Far from fading out, the controversial pastor of Senator Obama’s church, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, is back with a vengeance.
Friday night he gave a reflective, informed interview with Bill Moyers on PBS (Did anybody see it?) Sunday night he delivered a fiery speech to the NAACP in Detroit. [...]

WILL YOU PAY $25 OR PACK LIGHT?

With oil at almost $120 air lines are scrambling to pay for the extra charges. So Air Canada has just announced that economy class travellers will have to pay $25 if they want to check a second bag on North American flights. Economy passengers checking more than two bags will be charged $100 [...]

SHOULD SCHOOLS TEACH RELIGION?

This fall the moral and religious education course in Quebec’s schools will be replaced by the new Ethics and Religious Culture program. This means that these schools will no longer be allowed to provide religious instruction in the class-room. Generations of Quebecers, both Catholic and Protestant, have grown up expecting [...]

SHOULD THE ANGLICANS ACCEPT HOMOSEXUALS?

Two Anglican bishops are sniping at each other over the issue of fully inclusive affiliation of homosexuals into the Anglican (Episcopaleon) church.
South America’s Archbishop Gregory Venables says he is coming to Vancouver this  week-end to give aid and succour to all those Canadian Anglicans who believe homosexuality is condemned by Scripture.  At the same time [...]

SHOULD THE HAKAPIK BE BANNED?

Opposition to the East Coast seal hunt is more about optics than it is about conservation. Which is not to say that optics aren’t important.
Because seals are cute and cuddly, and are killed out in the open rather than in slaughter-houses, animal -rights activists seize on gruesome images of the hunt to attract public [...]

SHOULD THE POPE DISCIPLINE THE BISHOPS?

By almost any standard Pope Benedict’s visit to the United States has been a success. He confronted the priests’ sexual abuse scandal head on confessing his own “shame” at what happened in his own church. He broke precedent and astonished many when he met several abuse victims in Washington.
The victims themselves have only [...]

ARE ‘SAVIOUR SIBLINGS’ OK?

A Vancouver couple have opted for desperate measures to boost the survival odds for their eight-year old son who has been battling leukemia for five years. No bone-marrow matches are available so the couple will try to create a “saviour sibling” - a test-tube baby created to save an older sibling through [...]