There's an understandable fear amongst First Nations that leaving the land will destroy their culture. They fear the destruction that might come with modernity; that they'll lose connection to their ancestors, to their Mother Earth, to which they are deeply embedded, and become assimilated like so many cultures before them.

By the time I was 27 years old I had given birth to three children in four years. This was the late 70s. I had always wanted to be a wife and mother. I wrote that in my high school year book.

I remember going to the park and bumping...

I had the opportunity to attend several lectures on healing provided by a variety of religious teachers. One of the speakers questioned God's purpose in revealing the Ten Commandments. Of all the knowledge that He could have imparted to us, why did He provide these commandments that seem so self-evident?...

Me think they doth protest too much.

If religion is such a bad thing, then according to the scientific worldview of Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss religion will fade away without their constant harping. Interesting, their references to Darwin. Darwin's theories on evolution did not take away from...

This year at The Masters, Tiger Woods was penalized two extra strokes because he and his caddy and apparently one of the judges were wrong about a rule. Each person is responsible for knowing all the rules and following them to a "tee." Someone watching on television caught the error....

A meeting, more of a sighting, will take place between a sperm donor accompanied by his parents, and the offspring, the result of the donation to the lesbian couple. The man originally agreed not to be involved in the life of the child, but changed his mind.

The lawyer...

In the May 2006 report Out of the Shadows at Last, Prime Minister Harper appointed Senator Michael Kirby to create the Mental Health Commission of Canada to develop our first mental health strategy. He's no stranger to mental illness. Senator Kirby spoke of his sister:...

In 1972 John D. Rockefeller chaired the commission, "Population and the American Future," which recommended abortion on demand. At the time, the fear of overpopulation was great and abortion was promoted to control population. And abortion increased as did its acceptance.

Yes, there is a connection...

The temperature is warming. There is a freshness in the air. New beginnings and thoughts turn to flights of fancy. It's springtime. Mating season. The call of the wild. Blogs and magazines and television and radio are filled with suggestions for women to spruce themselves up, "youngify" themselves. Get ready...

This is the sound of anti-semitism. It knows no boundaries. The sound travels through time, crosses generations, gender, religion, race, culture, ethnicity, nationality.

Take the time to listen to all the sounds. Hopefully, you'll hear the hate and know that you must not allow the sounds of hate to overcome...

April 7 is Holocaust Memorial Day.

What better time than now to expose the face of anti-Semitism. It hasn't changed much over the millennia.

It is my hope that when you finish reading the piece you will be exhausted and appreciate how it feels to be on the receiving...

"So what happened in Steubenville...Was it just 'human nature' or were other outcomes possible?" asked Erin Anderssen in her article about the bystander effect in the rape of the young girl in Steubenville. It is a question that is asked each time a mob watches rather than intervene.

I have had the opportunity to experience many types of therapy for my mental illness. I have seen psychiatrists, a spiritual care provider, I have tried several medications and am happily doing well on one, and I have seen a psychoanalyst. I wasn't looking for one. Sitting...

What is fundamentalism? "A usually religious movement or point of view characterized by a return to fundamental principles, by rigid adherence to those principles, and often by intolerance of other views and opposition to secularism."

We think of the religious right as fundamentalists, viewing the world through a narrow prism...

Imagine a 52-year-old truck driver collapses over the wheel and slams into a school bus killing eight children. He'd had a heart attack.

Now imagine a 22-year-old man takes a gun, enters a theatre and shoots randomly, killing eight children. It seems he had an acute psychotic break.

The truck...

Cosmological theory suggests that the universe began as a primeval atom. The "God Particle"? Through forces, as yet unknown, an enormous release of energy caused space to expand into all we see today.

In 1927, a Belgian priest and physicist, Georges Lemaitre, first proposed this controversial...

"That kind of speech, that kind of facts, are not acceptable." And so began another infantile attack by another entitled university student, Ethan Jackson, 21 of Wilfrid Laurier University, at a lecture at The University of Waterloo. Dressed as a giant vagina he calls Vulveta, the type of dress that...

There has been a great deal of media coverage on child pornography this past week: Articles by Jonathan Kay, John von Heyking, letters to the editor, and comments in Huffington Post after an article...

I wrote about depression and concurrent disorders a few weeks ago. We are hearing more about bipolar disorder. Silver Linings Playbook portrayed the life of a family living with it.

When I was first diagnosed with recurrent chronic depression I also took a little test. Seven questions....

Marshall McLuhan, forever associated with the expression, "The medium is the message," wrote in 1967 that we live in a "complex system of information, physically, physiologically, nervously, humanly." He wrote at that time that there had never been so much information. He referred to this increase in information as "information...