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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...