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News
Alberta separatism: readers’ response
We normally just share letters-to-the-editor in the magazine, but as these two letters are about the Alberta Referendum, and as that vote will happen before the next magazine lands, it was important to share these now, when they could still…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Aug. 30, 2025
Great illustrations of the government’s limits Big government presumes that its bureaucracy is omnicompetent, able to manage for its citizens the job market, healthcare, education,…
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NewsWhy join an ARPA Club?
One mom shares how signing up has helped her high schoolers stand up for others High school is busy. Course work, extracurriculars, sports, catechism classes,…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Aug. 23, 2025
Distinguishing between Soft and Hard Christian Nationalism Because certain Reformed folk support a form of Christian Nationalism, others will be strongly against it… but what…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Aug. 16, 2025
Life’s building blocks: everything, everywhere, all at once (1 minute) You can build some of the basic elements of a cell in a lab. But…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Aug. 9, 2025
Four guys, one piano, doing a One Direction cover The Piano Guys, getting clever… Anything can be an idol “I have worshiped an hour of…
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NewsCanada just about had a ballot as tall as you
On August 18, voters in the riding of Battle River–Crowfoot will go to the polls to elect one of the 214 candidates on the ballot….
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NewsCan you track all the ways you’re taxed?
Each year the Fraser Institute observes a “Tax Freedom Day” – this year it happened on June 8 – that tracks Canadians’ total tax burden…
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NewsSaturday Selections – Aug. 2, 2025
Josiah Queen’s Dusty Bibles As a tribute to everyone who participated in RP’s just-complete screen-fast challenge, Josiah Queen’s newest. Lunar tales: what’s going on here? Even kids…
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NewsSupreme Court of Canada upholds prostitution law
In an important decision that didn’t get covered by the mainstream media this July, Canada’s highest court made a unanimous decision to uphold key parts…
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NewsSaturday Selections – July 19, 2025
One man band This is an amazing performance – one guy sounding like a whole band – on quite the machine! “Scottie Scheffler’s take on…
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NewsSaturday Selections – July 12, 2025
Josiah Queen’s “A Garden in Manhattan” On the crowded streets, all the people that I see Want them to know the Jesus that I know…
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NewsCanada’s population almost shrinking
The latest population estimation from Statistics Canada is revealing a startling change: Ontario, Quebec, and BC all saw population declines in the first quarter of…
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NewsYou now live on šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmasəm Street
“911, I need an ambulance at 232 šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmasəm Street, and quickly please!” “Sorry, I didn’t get that. Can you repeat the address?” “The first letter…
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NewsGovernment quietly disbands inquiry into residential school graves
Allegations of “mass graves” of indigenous children at residential schools in Canada was one of the top news stories of 2021, making ripples around the…
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NewsAre you still able?
It used to be different, not all that long ago. Carrie is a teen who always had the kind of contagious smile that would get…
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NewsSaturday Selections – July 5, 2025
On boys, and not failing to launch As singer Brian Sauvé wrote of his song Old Neptune, He’s Roaring, “I wrote this… for my boys:…
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NewsMP says: No MAiD for the mentally ill
MP Tamara Jansen has introduced a new bill that would repeal the expansion of euthanasia to those with mental illness. Four years into the conversation…
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NewsSaturday Selections – June 28, 2025
The Franz Family and “Somewhere in glory” If you liked the soundtrack to O Brother, Where Art Thou?, you’ll love this but of bluegrass gospel……
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NewsProfessing God’s Name, unashamed, at the Stanley Cup
If you’re a keen hockey fan, you probably watched the last game of the Stanley Cup Finals between the Edmonton Oilers and Florida Panthers. And…
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NewsHow far Christians can go to defend their property
Ontario premier Doug Ford recently remarked that “like down in the U.S., we should have the castle law” in response to a recent attempted theft…
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NewsSaturday Selections – June 21, 2025
Pay it flowered Here’s a fun one… and it brightened more than just the recipient’s day. Your marriage doesn’t have a communication problem… Admittedly, that…
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NewsFaded road lines symbolize faded Christian values
Having a hard time seeing the lines on the road? You aren’t alone. The Federation of Canadian Municipalities is lobbying for changes to a rule…
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NewsSaturday Selections – June 14, 2025
Allison Eide’s one-shot “In the Moment” The song is great, but the video is even better – Christian artist Allison Eide got her friends together…
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NewsSaturday Selections – June 7, 2025
Remy on tariffs If Scotland noticed how much more wine they import vs. how much they export, they’d discover they have quite the wine trade…
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NewsT-Rex leather coming to a store near you?
According to the Interesting Engineering news site, three companies have joined forces to develop “the world’s first T-Rex leather made using the extinct creature’s DNA.”…
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News1 in 10 women who take abortion drug experience serious complications
The largest study ever done on the abortion drug mifepristone has found that 10.93 percent of women who were given the drug experienced a “serious…
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NewsSaturday Selections – May 31, 2025
Click on the titles to go to the linked articles… Winnie’s song Father Brian Sauvé, sharing some of the prayers he has for his little…
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NewsPapua New Guinea affirms God’s authority over their land
This spring, Papua New Guinea (PNG) amended the preamble to its constitution to make it very clear Who has authority over their nation. The preamble…
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News642 Canadian babies were born alive and left to die
A Canadian pro-life researcher has found that, in the past five years in Canada, 642 babies were born alive after a failed abortion attempt. The…
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NewsSaturday Selections – May 24, 2025
Whiter than snow – Jimmy Clifton and Haddon Some high-energy Christian folk coming at you. Kevin DeYoung on why struggling with difficult doctrines is good…
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NewsWhat if we said what we mean? – political party edition
Another election campaign has come and gone, and one of the bigger disappointments might simply be, did anyone defend anything that really mattered? The Conservatives…
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NewsSaturday Selections – May 17, 2025
Micah Tyler’s “Praise The Lord” It ain’t always easy following God, but His goodness is certain. The daily battleground we often ignore in our therapy…
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NewsSaturday Selections – May 10, 2025
Gray Havens’ Ghost of a King A lyric video seems a good idea for this, one of their harder-to-understand songs. A little mystery then, accompanied…
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NewsSaturday Selections – May 3, 2025
Be Present Reformed rapper Propaganda with a message that’ll hit everyone hard: “I guess you could say I’ve been through a divorce now – me…
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NewsSaturday Selections – April 26, 2025
Christianity & global warming (10 min) Some Christians think global warming is a scientific, and not a theological, question. To that, Jeff Durbin replies: “I’ll…
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NewsAbortion deaths reach 10-year high
According to the Canadian Institute of Health Information (CIHI), the number of abortions reported in Canada increased to a staggering 101,553 in 2023, the highest…