CHP
Commentary

​When did we start thinking that “time served” equals justice? Deep inside, most of us know that it does not, but our court system seems to have no alternative solution.

​There is much talk about hate in these days and as the death toll rises in cities and malls around the world, in our schools and in our streets, it is evident that hatred—deep, burning, cruel and bloodthirsty hatred—has gripped the hearts of many.

The twenty-something generation might not be thinking much about their pensions yet, but they should be. Canada Pension Plan (CPP) payments get taken off each worker’s paycheque, and employers are required to make matching contributions. It affects everyone in the work force.

Dallas again. In Dallas on November 22, 1963—53 years ago—the world sat stunned in the horrible aftermath of JFK’s assassination and the subsequent shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald which played live on national TV.

It sounds like the beginning of a cheesy joke, but after last week’s court ruling in Ontario, a Christian lawyer might not be allowed entry to Ontario’s bar association (the Law Society of Upper Canada, the body which accredits Ontario’s lawyers). And that is no joking matter.

​Tomorrow, we celebrate the 149th Birthday/Anniversary of the Dominion of Canada. Until 1982, this celebration was called ‘Dominion Day’, acknowledging Sir Leonard Tilley’s presentation to the Fathers of Confederation that our name should be based on Psalm 72:8: “He (God) shall have dominion from sea to sea and from the river to the ends of the earth.”

David Stephan and his wife Collet have been sentenced to, respectively, four months jailtime and three months house arrest for “failing to provide the necessaries of life” for their 19-month old son, Ezekiel, who died of meningitis in March, 2012.

​What does the “Brexit” mean for Canada? Yesterday, the United Kingdom voted by referendum to leave the European Union (EU).

Welcome to Canada in 2016. It’s been a tough transition but Canadians can pridefully say that we have finally (almost) conquered the scourge in our heritage…truth.

With the likely passage of MP Mauril Bélanger’s Bill C-210 to change one phrase of Canada’s national anthem—supposedly to make it more “gender-inclusive”—new calls are already coming to make an even more profound change to the anthem.

On Sunday, June 12th, a radical Islamic jihadist shot and killed 50 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Rather than focusing on the ideology which lay behind this and the majority of terrorist acts in recent years, much of the mainstream media is...

If you had a debt of, say, $200,000 due to a mortgage, would you be shopping for several new cars, and hiring a gardener or butler? What about if you weren’t keeping up with your current payments? Silly question, right?