Christians, Muslims and Jews Standing for Peace

I had the pleasure of attending a lecture by Mordechai Kedar sponsored by my fellow Huffington Post blogger, Tahir Aslam Gora.   I met Tahir at a breakfast meeting held by CIJA to introduce us to Yossi Klein Halevi, author of Like Dreamers. Tahir is a quiet...

Rosie DiManno attacks the mentally ill

The word "mental" conjures fearful images; the "crazed" ax murderer, the "psycho" who stalks people and then stabs them repeatedly, the young man who takes a gun and sprays a stream of bullets in a room full of young children. Mental...

Religion:a pillar in the care of mental illness

Reyal Jardine-Douglas, Sylvia Klibingaitis, Michael Eligon, Michael MacIsaac, and Sammy Yatim are all dead. The 2013 Mobile Crisis Team Coordination Steering Committee Report, MCIT Program Coordination in the City of Toronto acknowledges that it's important to...

Stephen Harper

“This is a very Canadian trait, to do something for no reason other than it is right even when no immediate reward for, or threat to, ourselves is...

Islamification: What shall we do?

have written about Quebec before.   Let's just say that I won't be beatified any time soon. But I think the Québecois deserve a badge of courage for their attempts to define reasonable accommodation.   They are asking the question "What...