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09Feb2016

Calling Evil Good and Good Evil

​Shakespeare’s famous line, “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” may be true as regards the perception of our physical world by our senses but the descriptive terms used to categorize human behaviours certainly affect our attitudes towards those being described.
  • February 09, 2016
  • Taylor
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02Feb2016

Is Truth “Non-negligible”?

It’s a non-negligible amount of work to read the news sometimes. There’s not only watching for media bias and looking for “the spin,” there’s also watching for misleading words that misdirect us as to various mis-implications in the article.
  • February 02, 2016
  • Gunn
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29Jan2016

Alberta Education Ministry Bullies Families

Alberta has recently released its new mandatory guidelines on sexual diversity in schools. NDP Education Minister David Eggen said the new guidelines ensure the “safety” of transgendered students.
  • January 29, 2016
  • Gunn
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26Jan2016

The PM’s Undoing

In any great endeavour—such as running a country—people want to know how much is being accomplished. In Canada today, it behoves us to also find out how much is being “un-accomplished.”
  • January 26, 2016
  • Taylor
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19Jan2016

Is CHP For or Against Marijuana?

​Science-based decision-making is a much-touted theme of our current government, but how much do you know about the science of marijuana? Marijuana has two substances that we need to understand...
  • January 19, 2016
  • Peter Vogel
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15Jan2016

10 Rapes, 11 Years

​On January 14th 2016, a rapist was convicted in Montreal. Most of us haven’t heard about this horrendous case because it elicited only a small amount of media coverage.
  • January 15, 2016
  • Peter Vogel
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12Jan2016

Fearing the People

How do we choose those who rule over us? Does it matter? Can we change it? If we do so, will things improve? Our new Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, has vowed to change the electoral system and—so far—says he will do it without allowing Canadians to vote on it in a cross-country referendum. Is he right or wrong?
  • January 12, 2016
  • Taylor
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05Jan2016

2015—What Did We Achieve?

​The beginning of a new year is a good time to reflect on the past twelve months. What went well? How can we build on our successes and make the most of our opportunities in the next twelve?
  • January 05, 2016
  • Gunn
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22Dec2015

Christmas Reflections 2015

As the year 2015 draws to a close, we in the CHP and many of our fellow-citizens pause to reflect on the ‘…old, old story’ that we love so well—the story of the Man-child who came from heaven to save the world. How badly our world needs to hear this story again!
  • December 22, 2015
  • David Reimer
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15Dec2015

Now What?

​The landslide Liberal victory leading to majority control of Canada’s federal government has led to jubilant celebration by many Canadians but not all Canadians.
  • December 15, 2015
  • Enos
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