By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Wednesday, December 04, 2024 The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) holds its 220th General Assembly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 30, 2017. | PCUSA The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has around 1 million fewer active members than it had in 2009, with the mainline Protestant denomination continuing its years-long decline. On Tuesday, the … Read more
The Quebec government is following through on its promise last month to authorize certain early requests for medical assistance in dying, starting this fall. As of October 30, patients can make advance requests for the procedure before their condition renders them incapable of giving consent. Quebec adopted a law in June 2023 allowing requests from … Read more
The Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice arrived with about as much subtlety as its scheduling at the Toronto International Film Festival. Just as the Ali Abassi-directed film was plopped into the festival’s opening night schedule on Thursday as a last-minute surprise, the film barrels into its thesis without much warning or preamble. Documenting the former U.S. president’s beginnings … Read more
Extreme weather events like fires, floods, heat waves and droughts pose an increasing risk to Canada’s food supply chain, putting pressure on prices all the way to the grocery store shelf, say experts. “Anytime you have major weather-related events, it tends to increase costs,” said Frank Scali, vice-president of industry affairs at Food, Health & … Read more
As It Happens6:42When India’s vulture population collapsed, half a million human deaths followed: study Vultures may not be the most popular animal in the world, but the work they do is essential for human life, a new study has found. New research attributes 500,000 human deaths in India over the course of five years in the … Read more
In the spring of 2023, a Parks Canada team strung electric fence along a section of the Trans Canada Highway from Lake Louise to the boundary between B.C. and Alberta. It was part of an attempt to help keep animals including a beloved white grizzly bear named Nakoda away from the dangers of the road. … Read more
A diet promoting plant-based protein to help the environment now has a more human argument: It may lower your risk of dying from several major diseases. “It wasn’t just one cause of death. It was right across the board,” said Walter Willett, professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public … Read more
Cost of Living76:40:00The Great Exhaustion For years, Sabrina Royal worked with one of Canada’s big banks. She worked her way up from an entry-level job to a management position. But that’s when her hours started getting out of hand. “When it was good, I was working 8 a.m. to about 6:30 p.m.,” Royal, 42, told … Read more
The Current23:09What dying people see in their dreams As Charlotte Good was dying of pancreatic cancer in a Toronto hospital in 2007, she experienced a dream or vision of her own mother — who had died years before. Charlotte’s daughter, Cynthia Good, was staying over that night and sensed that she’d sat up. “I got … Read more
A misunderstood and mistreated killer whale. An investigation into the 1999 Columbine High School massacre and American gun culture at large. An inconvenient truth about the future of planet Earth in the face of devastating climate change. If you go by overwhelmingly successful films like Blackfish, Bowling for Columbine and An Inconvenient Truth, it might seem like documentaries are … Read more
