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June 10, 2013
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Lisa Hoekstra
Premier Pauline Marois lunches at a Québécois cafe where the menu – and perhaps soon the food – must be French.
Premier Pauline Marois recently announced that she wanted Quebec residents to increase their locally-grown food consumption to 50 percent. It’s one of several strategies that the Parti Québécois has implemented in an attempt to bolster “national” pride within Quebec. Although, in this case, national does not mean Canadian.
The changes started with an increased pressure on restaurants to provide completely French menus. In February, an Italian restaurant in Montreal was ordered to remove the word “pasta,” because it ...Full Story
Premier Pauline Marois lunches at a Québécois cafe where the menu – and perhaps soon the food – must be French.
Premier Pauline Marois recently announced that she wanted Quebec residents to increase their locally-grown food consumption to 50 percent. It’s one of several strategies that the Parti Québécois has implemented in an attempt to bolster “national” pride within Quebec. Although, in this case, national does not mean Canadian.
The changes started with an increased pressure on restaurants to provide completely French menus. In February, an Italian restaurant in Montreal was ordered to remove the word “pasta,” because it ...Full Story
Ron Rupke
God’s people must care deeply about the plight of displaced prsons and refugees, according to biblical scholar Sylvia Keesmaat. As she began a recent event sponsored by the Canadian Sanctuary Network in Lindsay, Ontario, Dr. Keesmaat remarked that the biblical story is one of constant displacement. From Abraham, Jacob, Naomi and Ruth, to Mary and Joseph and the infant Jesus – “Who will take them in, who will share hospitality with them?”
The evening continued with a video presentation of a Roma couple who left Budapest, Hungary and arrived in Canada in 2000 claiming refugee status. They tried to settle ...Full Story
God’s people must care deeply about the plight of displaced prsons and refugees, according to biblical scholar Sylvia Keesmaat. As she began a recent event sponsored by the Canadian Sanctuary Network in Lindsay, Ontario, Dr. Keesmaat remarked that the biblical story is one of constant displacement. From Abraham, Jacob, Naomi and Ruth, to Mary and Joseph and the infant Jesus – “Who will take them in, who will share hospitality with them?”
The evening continued with a video presentation of a Roma couple who left Budapest, Hungary and arrived in Canada in 2000 claiming refugee status. They tried to settle ...Full Story
I don’t remember my first home visitation, but I do remember the last. I was 16, and before the elders arrived, I told my mother ...Full Story
Homeland security According to the great American poet Robert Frost, “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” ...Full Story
Homeland security According to the great American poet Robert Frost, “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” ...Full Story
In our current issue (subscribers only)
- Home is the hardest word
- Homeless Jesus sculpture finds a home
- We believe. Help our unbelief
- Every one of us a fiddler
- My father
- Towers of Babel today
- The not-so-golden years
