Glen Argan

Abortion, unfortunately, will not be on the ballot April 28. A just society would protect in law the life of every person, including the unborn. However, none of our major parties will open the abortion issue for debate in Parliament.

U.S. President Donald Trump is not a conservative. He is a right-wing populist who thinks in utopian terms. He heralds a return to a misty time when America was great, which apparently it currently is not. Precisely what made America great in his mind is far from clear.

I was praying this psalm about six months ago when these lines jumped out at me as they never had before. What an astonishing proclamation of faith. Even in the face of war, the psalmist would continue to trust in the Lord. I could only ask myself, “Am I up to this?”

Pope Francis’ letter rebuking US President Donald Trump for failing to respect the dignity of migrants who move to the United States seeking to escape oppression comes in the wake of questionable theologizing by Vice-President JD Vance.

More than 40 years ago a man walked unannounced into my office in Edmonton when I was the young editor of the Western Catholic Reporter.

Many things about Pete Hegseth, U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, raise serious concerns — his alcoholism and adulterous womanizing among them. What concerns me perhaps even more is his exercise of bad religion.

For the first 100 years of Canada’s existence, our country’s leaders mostly held to the belief that Canada had to protect itself from the power of our American neighbours.

The Globe and Mail interviewed business leaders about Dominic LeBlanc’s appointment as finance minister, so it set the parameters for the resulting story. These men are entitled to their opinions, but their assumption that Canada’s finance minister needs to be “one of us” shows a lack of regard for broader concerns.

Long ago, I learned that when I wrote letters, newspaper articles and any other form of writing by hand, they were more personal, quirky and self-revelatory than when I hammered them out on a typewriter. I also discovered that my writing was less precise, concise and grammatically correct when I took pen in hand. So, before I dared to submit my writing to a prof or an editor, I did a significant amount of editing to make my handiwork acceptable.

The Edmonton police stopped outside the downtown Bissell Centre on Tuesday, as they do most mornings. Their task was to cart away the tarps and belongings of homeless people camped on the street. The previous night, the temperature had fallen to minus 16C, and people were cold.