Archive for December, 2012
Minister Toews, I am reminded of this passage from the Gospels: "In truth I tell you, this poor widow has put more in than all who have contributed to the treasury"
A story today from the CBC sheds some light on a recent story in the Kingston Whig Standard about inmates at Collins Bay Institution who, with their warden’s permission, donated their own money to the local food bank in a…
Response to the Newtown, Connecticut school shooting
People around the world continue to mourn and remember the Newtown, Connecticut, school children and their brave principal and teachers. To the victims’ families, whose sorrow most of us cannot imagine, Prime Minister Harper and the people of Canada have…
Translation on Parliament Hill
This week I have been sitting on the Industry, Science and Technology committee as it edits a report on Canada’s Intellectual Property regime. One thing I noticed is that most of the testimony and the original draft of the report…