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Is cohabitation safe now?

Many recent news sources would have us believe, as the Christian Science Monitor reported, “Cohabitation before marriage? It’s no greater divorce risk.” Perhaps you’ve seen such headlines and wondered if it’s true....

Demographics and old age security

Touching the financial benefits of seniors is a dangerous game for politicians. When Prime Minister Stephen Harper broached the topic of reforms to old age security payments at the end of January 2012, the result was a...

Same-sex parenting research

The U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study (NLLFS) originally followed 84 lesbian couples, who’d had children via donor insemination, to determine how their children fared in a number of developmental measures...

The Bible: God’s story, not God’s...

When I was twelve, I made a deal with God. Being twelve and not yet a Christian, I didn’t realize how misguided, even foolish, such a proposition was. I didn’t understand that as a fallen creature, I had nothing to...

Look who’s defending monogamy

Monogamy. Is it important to the well-being of society or merely a personal issue? Is it only a Western ideal driven primarily by Christian belief or does it have larger, broader significance for a culture?...

Ontario’s strange laws: legal brothels, illegal injection sites

By Stephen Johnson | May 2, 2012 | Comments (1) | Law + Government

I can understand a judge who wants neither brothels nor safe needle injection sites on their street. I can even understand a judge who has no issue with either brothels or injection sites. What’s hard for me to grasp is an inconsistent, pick-and-...

A public ad for Islam: an opportunity for Christians

By Stephen Johnson | May 1, 2012 | Comments (4) | Faith + Religion

According to a recent story in the Toronto Sun, a Muslim advertisement stating “There is no god but Allah” remains posted in the Kennedy subway station following a review by the Toronto Transit Commission Advertising Commission Group. Even after...

Kids not as physically active as parents think

By Frank Stirk | April 30, 2012 | Post your comment | Health + Education

Children are getting nowhere near the levels of daily physical exercise that their parents think they are, a new Statistics Canada study has concluded. The parents reported their children spent on average 105 minutes a day in moderate to...