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In 2012, Adam Campbell was out at an Ottawa nightclub when a very intoxicated Justin Williams approached his younger sister (names and some details...
“I’m sorry we’re running late, but one of our offices was just shelled.” That was how an online meeting started last week when I met with the...
On March 19, Broadview published the digital story, “The everyday ceremony that grounds me during Lent,” written by Rev. Shane Goldie, a...
Canada’s drop to 25th place in the 2026 World Happiness Report released in March was largely due to declining well-being among young people. Social...
The Marys in Jesus’ entourage have long been a bit of a mystery. The problems begin when you try to count them. There are anywhere from three to...
A two-day gathering described as “a direct dialogue between Christian leadership and Alberta’s government” is set to take place in Red Deer next...
Every weekday, Imam Abdul Wasiu Ibrahim steered his 2003 Mercedes-Benz C-class along an untarred, dusty road in Aule community in Akure, the capital...
After a synagogue in Tehran was bombed in U.S.-Israeli air strikes last week, killing more than a dozen people, many people outside Iran were...
In a hospital ER treatment room, doctors have just given up their struggles to save a critically injured patient. “Call it,” says the senior...
Earlier this week, U.S. President Donald Trump posted an AI image to Truth Social showing himself in Jesus-style robes, with glowing hands healing a...
The wooden furniture in the Supreme Court of Canada’s main courtroom was installed in 1948 as a side quest by a company much more revered for its...
Kiki Keskinen is a witch. She’s also a journalism professor at Carleton University, an entrepreneur and a former PR professional, but it’s the...
Zeinab Kabeel dreamed of becoming a prosecutor. Nevien Waly aspired to become a teacher, after stepping away from a career in finance. The best of...
What does celebration look like in the middle of a war? For many Iranians who marked Nowruz this year, celebration has meant holding onto tradition...
When Sam O’Neill — a 34-year-old terminal cancer patient — decided to pursue medical assistance in dying (MAID), she was transferred from St...
Bishop Robert Hirschfeld is the Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire. After the fatal shooting in January of Renée Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis,...
To say it’s a strange time to be a queer and trans person in America is an understatement. Reconciling the current cultural and political moment in...
I was born and raised in Senegal, where 90 percent of the population is Muslim. With Islam shaping much of daily life and Ramadan’s fast standing as...
In September 2024, Ontario Premier Doug Ford stood before the cameras at a new housing construction site in Cobourg, Ont., and said that the homeless...
Mary Fairhurst Breen’s daughter Sophie loved the theatre. “Our happy place was in a car on overnight theatre excursions,” Breen narrates over a...
Each morning during Lent, before the world fully wakes, I step outside and place my feet on the cold ground. I light a braid of sweetgrass and let the...
I’ve served in the United Church in Alberta since 1988 — in rural, urban and non-profit-agency capacities — and now in an inner-city...
Sarah Hussein remembers the weight of her classmate’s textbooks stacked awkwardly in her arms. She was just 11 years old and had come to collect...
In Spring 2023, my 20-something daughter, Olivia Mater, and I took a road trip from Tobermory to Thunder Bay, Ont. We were both at crossroads: I was...
A few years ago, my husband and I began writing our values and practices on little pieces of paper and posting them on our fridge as a way to support...
About five years ago, accompanied by news-release fanfare and a $20-million line of credit from Canada’s federal housing agency, The United Church...
Since OpenAI released ChatGPT in 2022, many people have used artificial intelligence to develop new ways to work more efficiently or reduce heavy...
During this year’s Lenten season, I’ll be taking a daily walk through my local cemetery, greeting the trees, birds, rabbits, deer and the...
“If we don’t talk about it, it’s not real.” Hearing those words spoken at a prayer vigil on Thursday night in my small community of...