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Archdiocese of Winnipeg funding multiple projects in reconciliation efforts with Indigenous Peoples

Archdiocese of Winnipeg funding multiple projects in reconciliation efforts with Indigenous Peoples

About 100 kilometres north of Winnipeg, on the eastern shores of Lake Winnipeg, a village is being built where Indigenous girls, women and two-spirit...

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Josiah Neufeld

David Suzuki still believes change is possible

David Suzuki still believes change is possible

For more than half a century, David Suzuki has inspired people around the world to embrace nature and treat the Earth as they would their mother:...

02.07.2026 4

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Nate Smelle

The Canada Day story I need to tell

The Canada Day story I need to tell

This Canada Day, I want to tell you a story about the Canada I love. It started before I even walked through the doors of BC Place for Egypt’s World...

30.06.2026 5

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Ahmad El-Bayoumi

We knew. You just didn’t believe us.

We knew. You just didn’t believe us.

I have had my driver’s license since I was 16. I’ve never had a criminal record or been involved in any kind of illicit activity. I’m now 45. ...

29.06.2026 7

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Renzel Dashington

Beyond the myth of the ‘Biblical Man’

Beyond the myth of the ‘Biblical Man’

How does a young man come to believe that violence against women is justified? That question has resurfaced after the recent shooting at a...

26.06.2026 7

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Kevin McCarty

Why this tree planter is organizing from the ground up

Why this tree planter is organizing from the ground up

Stewart Mior has spent more than a decade in silviculture, working as both a tree planter and camp manager in provinces across Canada. Today, he’s...

25.06.2026 10

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Ghazal Azizi

An aging congregation bets its future on the next generation

An aging congregation bets its future on the next generation

A dwindling congregation that owns a red brick church building in South Osborne, Winnipeg has found a creative way to keep its doors open while...

24.06.2026 9

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Josiah Neufeld

Disclosure Day asks, can Christianity survive first contact with aliens?

What would the existence of aliens mean for Christians? It’s a question that former aspiring nun Jane Blankenship (Eve Hewson) wrestles with in...

23.06.2026 9

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James Adair

What drag taught me about Christian ministry

The lights go up, and the stage is set. The audience begins to fill the assembly, and an anticipatory buzz fills the room. Backstage, you adjust your...

19.06.2026 6

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Chris Clark

Military emissions are Canada’s climate blind spot

Last month, Canada’s former environment minister Steven Guilbeault resigned as an MP, accusing the federal government of rolling back environmental...

19.06.2026 8

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Randa Ali

What Drag Taught Me About Christian Ministry

The lights go up, and the stage is set. The audience begins to fill the assembly, and an anticipatory buzz fills the room. Backstage, you adjust your...

19.06.2026 8

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Chris Clark

How to be a good man today

This is less a question than a meme — an observation on the quality of heterosexual men today, who seem to be responding to the erosion of...

19.06.2026 8

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Omar Mouallem

Rice Lake granted legal rights under First Nation law

For Indigenous Peoples, the rights of nature have long been a foundational principle, going back to time immemorial. In recent years, that way of...

17.06.2026 6

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Taynar Simpson

In Winkler, pride finds a place in church

On Saturday morning, the day of Winkler’s first Pride celebration, Erika Enns Rodine, a Mennonite pastor wearing a white T-shirt with a...

16.06.2026 9

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Josiah Neufeld

Winkler’s first Pride draws stories of pain and hope

Sebastian Saunders is both excited and nervous about returning to Winkler to tell his story at his hometown’s first Pride event. To get through his...

13.06.2026 10

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Josiah Neufeld

A United Church minister and MP defends Bill C-9

Bill C-9, formally titled the Combatting Hate Act, passed on June 4. As Broadview reported in December 2025 the bill “aims to better protect...

12.06.2026 10

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James Adair

I found my way back to the Anglican Church, imperfections and all

Growing up in a conservative Christian family and attending evangelical churches in Calgary, I had a fantasy life as rich as anyone’s. Through...

12.06.2026 7

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Charlotte Sheasby

I found my way back to the Anglican Church, imperfections and all

Growing up in a conservative Christian family and attending evangelical churches in Calgary, I had a fantasy life as rich as anyone’s. Through...

10.06.2026 10

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Charlotte Sheasby

Mark Carney’s antisemitism announcement sparks mixed reactions from Jewish Canadians

Canada’s Jewish community is reacting this week to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s announcement of a series of measures aimed at combatting...

05.06.2026 10

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James Adair

The gospel according to Malcolm Gladwell

The Jesuits have a habit of beginning the particular. Their method of moral reasoning, casuistry, doesn’t leap to sweeping rules. Instead, it starts...

05.06.2026 10

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Jonathan Scott

Russell Brand, Andrew Tate and the performance of faith

In April, Piers Morgan conducted an extraordinary interview with comedian-turned-vlogger Russell Brand that has since racked up millions of views....

05.06.2026 10

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Mary newman

Why bisexual Christians still feel unseen in affirming congregations

In the course of my work, I am often invited to speak at churches and Christian events on the topic of sexuality, gender, and faith. A few years ago,...

02.06.2026 10

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Jamie arpin-ricci

Palestinian Christians seek solidarity amid war and displacement

Christians in Palestine are crying out to their spiritual siblings worldwide for solidarity and support as they face death, displacement and...

28.05.2026 10

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Josiah Neufeld

Tim Hortons hiring push pits workers against each other, advocates say

Tim Hortons is facing sharp backlash from migrant worker advocates after announcing Monday it will hire 10,000 “new local team members” and that...

27.05.2026 20

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Charlotte macdonald and james adair

Is Gen Z really coming back to church?

Headlines about Gen Z Canadians flocking back to church spread quickly through the mainstream media last fall. But sociologists who follow religious...

26.05.2026 10

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Sarah Grishpul

The objects and rituals that shape faith at home

What does faith look like at home? Do you have small objects, rituals or moments that perhaps help ground you spiritually or shape your daily routine?...

25.05.2026 10

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Ashely crouch

A Ukrainian soldier on surviving Mariupol and Russian captivity

From February to May 2022, Yulia Goroshanska was among the several thousand fighters who defended Mariupol, Ukraine, in one of the war’s deadliest...

21.05.2026 10

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Katharine Lake Berz

Winnipeg Muslims shaken, weighing safety after deadly U.S. mosque shooting

Muslims in Winnipeg are shaken and weighing safety precautions after gunmen opened fire at a U.S. mosque Monday, killing three people. Two teenage...

20.05.2026 10

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Josiah Neufeld

Learning to Sign ‘Amen’

When Chantal Noseworthy was young, her family attended a Salvation Army church. But without access to an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter...

19.05.2026 20

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Anne Thériault

High cost of compassion threatens to shutter Christian home for people with HIV in Winnipeg

Days after Manitoba declared a public health emergency over rising HIV rates, a Christian home for people living with the immunodeficiency virus is...

19.05.2026 10

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Josiah Neufeld

What Broadview’s predecessor chose not to see about the Edmonton Residential School

“OF THE BEST,” “large, airy and spacious,” “last word in modern equipment,” “completes the requirements,” “expert” medical...

15.05.2026 20

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David Kim-Cragg

Should kids under 16 be banned from social media and AI? We asked teens

What would it mean to log an entire generation off social media and AI? The nationwide debate is evolving quickly from hypothetical to political...

14.05.2026 10

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Ashely crouch

What Broadview’s predecessor chose not to see about the Edmonton Residential School

“OF THE BEST,” “large, airy and spacious,” “last word in modern equipment,” “completes the requirements,” “expert” medical...

14.05.2026 10

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David Kim-Cragg

Winnipeg exhibit helps tell story of Sikh immigrant who put life on line

On an unseasonably warm winter day in January 1916, a 27-year-old man walked into the enlistment office in Winnipeg and volunteered to fight in the...

13.05.2026 20

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Josiah Neufeld

Russia’s religious push into Africa

Russia has found a new way to expand its reach into Africa — and it doesn’t involve soldiers.  In the face of crippling Western sanctions and a...

12.05.2026 10

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Deogracious kalima

Broadview went searching through its past. The findings were uncomfortable.

Back in 2018, a National Geographic headline caught my attention: “For decades, our coverage was racist. To rise above our past, we must acknowledge...

11.05.2026 20

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Jocelyn Bell

Classroom antisemitism in full swing, U.S. academic tells Winnipeg synagogue

Universities and colleges are fertile ground for promoting antisemitism, an American academic told an audience at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in...

07.05.2026 20

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John Longhurst

Inside Alberta’s Christian Leadership Summit

I knew I wasn’t the target audience for the Premier’s Annual Christian Summit, featuring Alberta Premier Danielle Smith as the main speaker....

07.05.2026 10

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Blaine gregg

How one Cree grandmother is reshaping the future of law in Canada

Grandmothers often play the role of guide and nurturer in their families. Val Napoleon is a grandmother to four children, but her role as a guide goes...

06.05.2026 20

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Shauna mackinnon

My mom donated her body to science

In February 2025, I received an invitation to a group funeral for my mother and 72 deceased strangers. As I scanned the details, my head felt light....

05.05.2026 20

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Valerie howes

How restorative justice can heal communities

In 2012, Adam Campbell was out at an Ottawa nightclub when a very intoxicated Justin Williams approached his younger sister (names and some details...

29.04.2026 30

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Shauna mackinnon

People in war-torn Sudan ‘are left with nothing’

“I’m sorry we’re running late, but one of our offices was just shelled.” That was how an online meeting started last week when I met with the...

28.04.2026 20

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Christina philips

‘Show me where the Bible mentions sweetgrass,’ a critic demands

On March 19, Broadview published the digital story, “The everyday ceremony that grounds me during Lent,” written by Rev. Shane Goldie, a...

24.04.2026 20

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Broadview Staff

A new mental health movement is rediscovering ancient wisdom

Canada’s drop to 25th place in the 2026 World Happiness Report released in March was largely due to declining well-being among young people. Social...

23.04.2026 20

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Cynthia wesley-esquimaux and alexandra shimo

Award-winning playwright Erin Shields reimagines the Gospels

The Marys in Jesus’ entourage have long been a bit of a mystery. The problems begin when you try to count them. There are anywhere from three to...

22.04.2026 20

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Anne Thériault

Alberta’s Christian Leadership Summit puts church-state separation at risk, critics say

A two-day gathering described as “a direct dialogue between Christian leadership and Alberta’s government” is set to take place in Red Deer next...

21.04.2026 20

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Ashely crouch

One family, many faiths

Every weekday, Imam Abdul Wasiu Ibrahim steered his 2003 Mercedes-Benz C-class along an untarred, dusty road in Aule community in Akure, the capital...

21.04.2026 20

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Innocent eteng

There’s a Jewish community in Iran?

After a synagogue in Tehran was bombed in U.S.-Israeli air strikes last week, killing more than a dozen people, many people outside Iran were...

17.04.2026 20

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Arfa Rana

How HBO’s The Pitt portrays faith in a non-preachy way

In a hospital ER treatment room, doctors have just given up their struggles to save a critically injured patient. “Call it,” says the senior...

15.04.2026 30

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Douglas Tindal

Trump’s Jesus-style AI image fuels global backlash and Vatican tensions

Earlier this week, U.S. President Donald Trump posted an AI image to Truth Social showing himself in Jesus-style robes, with glowing hands healing a...

14.04.2026 30

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Ashely crouch