Jack Taylor

Editor’s note: Share your story as part of our Longevity Project by visiting SummitDaily/submit-longevity. In July, 1999, I was airlifted to St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood after a rollover crash near Ute Pass Road on...

By November 1 of each year, the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, tables an annual report on the operation of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) before the House of Parliament. The government determines numbers for new arrivals by considering government priorities, economic needs across Canada, international obligations, the ability of agencies to screen and process applications, and the capacity to settle and integrate newcomers.

Less than a week ago, I boarded a plane from Rwanda back to my home here in Canada. Beside me, coming out of Amsterdam, was a 75-year-old Nigerian grandmother. It was her first plane trip. With a welcoming smile and limited English, she let me know she was visiting her only child, a daughter in Vancouver. Half-way through the trip she looked at me with weary eyes and said, “Canada, far.” That one reality limits so many from reaching our shores. Canada is far… and expensive to get to.

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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, centre, with Sarah Simpkin from the Children's Society and writer Jack Thorne of the Netflix drama 'Adolescence'

One man’s battle with trauma becomes a powerful light for others walking the same path. Jack Taylor’s autobiographical novel opens a door to healing,...

Author: Roger Jackson, Posted: Thursday, 10th April 2025, 11:00

“Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter…? “

I don't know about you, but my church is full on Sunday mornings. So is my previous church. So is the church my sister-in-law attends. Others seem to have never recovered after Covid. When I listen to surveys, they don't always jive with what I'm experiencing. For example, a recent Pew Research study, conducted in 36 countries, showed that more than 20 percent of adults have switched out of the faith communities they were brought up in. Christianity and Buddhism have been hit the hardest with a switch of high percentages to unaffiliated status. A poll by Fuller Youth Institute says that youth, 13-25, are three times more likely to be hurt by the unkindness, moral failures, and hypocrisy in the church. Often, they might leave.

The American stars laughed themselves silly when the Chinese-born rugby player threw back his head and raged from the back of the pack toward the finish line at the Paris Olympics. This wasn't even Eric Liddell's race to run. He was a sprinter, and the 440 wasn't designed for a man clawing at the air and chewing up the yards with his loping stride. The chase was on for the man labeled “the ugliest runner on the planet.”