Ethical Living
Today’s ultra-engaged parents suffer when their kids take flight
“People get angry when empty nesters feel sad, and they’ll say things like ‘Why don’t you just go volunteer?’ But their grief is real.”
Society
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Justice
What the beating of Abdirahman Abdi says about racism in Canada
Canadians are deceiving themselves if they think anti-Black prejudice is only an American affliction. A recent deadly police beating casts our own bigotry in stark relief.
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Spirituality
This will make you believe in ghosts
Do the dead remain among us? Paranormal investigators are determined to prove what science rejects, Christianity scorns — and half of Canadians believe.
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Justice, Spirituality
Unity Mosque provides a space for observant Muslims who openly live in LGBTQ relationships
More than half of Canadian Muslims believe it’s impossible to be an observant Muslim while living openly in an LGBTQ relationship. El-Farouk Khaki and Troy Jackson, co-founders of Unity Mosque, are proving there is another way.
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Justice
The link between diabetes among Indigenous peoples and colonialism
Rising rates of the disease among First Nations communities in Canada is leading some to re-examine the country's history of cultural assimilation
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Ethical Living
Meet the five United Church people who helped shape Canada’s groundbreaking laws about options at the end of life
The debate is heating up on how much control Canadians have over their own deaths. Here are some of the conversation's influencers
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Justice
The hidden epidemic of loneliness in Canada
An estimated six million Canadians live in isolation. Social researchers are now calling it a hidden epidemic.
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Justice
ObserverDocs: Out of Syria
For nearly half a century, the Elnabrees family has fled one war after another: Palestine, Kuwait, Iraq and, more recently, Syria. This year, they arrived as refugees in Canada, sponsored by relatives and United churches. Ayman Elshafiy, his wife, Sonia, their two daughters, his sister and mother, were among them.
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Ethical Living
Married to mental illness
Caring for a spouse with serious psychological issues can test even the strongest relationship
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Ethical Living
Are vegans right?
The writer is in the midst of a radical six-month change of diet. He’s discovering that no cheeseburger tastes as good as being ethical feels.
