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Should Canada spend 50 times more on war than refugees?
{Last part of refugee series. Click here for guide to series.} ‘Tis the season when Canadians tend to think more of those who have less. The Christmas season typically inspires many Canadians to...
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The war, peace and bravery of fatherhood
Last month I attended the opening of a powerful documentary about Canadian soldiers who suffered post-traumatic stress disorder after Afghanistan. The film, War in the Mind, showed heartbreaking...
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Steven Spielberg to preview his new film “War Horse” for veterans across...
Many film fans and history buffs are looking forward to the Christmas Day release of Steven Spielberg’s new WWI war drama, War Horse. Today, Dreamworks announced that all Canadian veterans will get to...
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VIDEO: WARNING: Graphic Content – Afghans shocked at marine video
Afghans are shocked at reports of a video allegedly showing U.S. troops urinating on dead Taliban fighters. Reuters has not independently verified the authenticity of this video. Marie-Claire Fennessy...
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About war: Men and women hold similar views
A strong contingent of the U.S. public is in favour of going to war against Syria — and much of that support for a military assault comes from women. A new poll by the Pew Research Center, published in...
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Jean Bethke Elshtain dies (two months after visit to Vancouver)
News has come out today that noted scholar Jean Bethke Elshtain has died, aged 72. She was a nuanced feminist, a just-war theorist, a ‘liberal’ Lutheran who was drawn to Catholicism, a defender of the...
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“Dignity” debate at root of major news controversies
Can a prostitute have dignity? That question is in the air after the federal government this month proposed a law restricting sex work. Does extremely low pay rob working people of dignity? Those who...
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VIOLENCE: “Religion is not the problem.” Karen Armstrong (Nov. 17 in Vancouver)
I remember interviewing the gifted Canadian author Mordecai Richler in the 1990s.. The Jewish atheist said religion has been primarily a force for destruction. “Through the ages, it’s probable that...
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Does ‘playing guns’ make boys violent? Remembrance Day
“Let’s go play guns.” That’s how my young male friends and I would kick off yet another round of mock combat in the bushes behind our house at 29th and Prince Albert Street in east Vancouver. Sometimes...
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Girls play with toy guns too: Readers
Girls play with toy guns too, it seems. Many women sent appreciative responses to my Saturday column, “Does playing guns make boys violent?” The women, some of whom thought of themselves as “tomboys,”...
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Scapegoating religion lets West off hook for violence: Karen Armstrong
What do North Americans and Europeans generally blame for most of the world’s misdeeds? Karen Armstrong says religion is our current scapegoat. “In the West the idea that religion is inherently...
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Jennifer Simons: One woman’s war against weapons
Scholar and philanthropist has donated almost $15 million to anti-armament and peace efforts Archives: Vancouver Sun Sat Sep 29 2007 Byline: Douglas Todd Jennifer Allen Simons — one of the world’s most...
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‘Four inches below left nipple:’ A War Remembrance
For Remembrance Day, here is a poetic tribute to my grandfather, George Stanley Todd. He was an Ontario farmer who fought and was wounded in the trenches in the First World War. He would later become a...
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Prince Harry backs Vancouver veterans’ play
Prince Harry has provided royal backup to a theatrical performance put together by Vancouver-based soldiers recovering from duty in Afghanistan. In England Prince Harry of Wales visited the four...
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This Week in History: 1936 The Spanish Civil War begins
Eighty years ago, civil war broke out in Spain. “Detachments of insurrectionary troops now believed in control of Spanish Morocco were reported planning to embark shortly for Spain to march on the...
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