Broadview Magazine

1 week ago | broadview.org | Kate Spencer

Canada and the United States are divided along many lines, but among the haziest of those lines are the geographic ones. We’re very close, our two countries. Many communities straddle borders, with family and friends on both sides. Since the election of Donald Trump, that closeness has been strained — talks of Canada becoming the 51st state, tariffs and the heightening of dismaying political rhetoric whose potential consequences are unknown.

2 weeks ago | broadview.org | Jocelyn Bell

Remember when Elon Musk was just your friendly neighbourhood rocket-launching, electric-car-making billionaire? Or even further back to when Twitter offered a revolutionary and democratic free flow of news and ideas? Me too. But ever since Musk bought Twitter in 2022 and changed its name to X, he appears to have embraced his alter-ego as the dark lord of thought control. Devoted X users soon noticed a spike in disinformation and far-right rage farming.

2 weeks ago | broadview.org | Alanna Mitchell

Religious leaders have been arguing for centuries about the correct date of Easter. Complexities revolve, in part, around how humans tell time. Historically, we measured the passage of months according to the phases of the moon. But we measure daylight hours and the movement from summer to winter according to Earth’s orbit around the sun. The calculation of Easter’s date relies on a combination of lunar and solar methods of telling time.

2 weeks ago | broadview.org | Alanna Mitchell

Religious leaders have been arguing for centuries about the correct date of Easter. Complexities revolve, in part, around how humans tell time. Historically, we measured the passage of months according to the phases of the moon. But we measure daylight hours and the movement from summer to winter according to Earth’s orbit around the sun. The calculation of Easter’s date relies on a combination of lunar and solar methods of telling time.

3 weeks ago | broadview.org | Emma Prestwich

Two years into its strategic plan, The United Church of Canada may not have achieved its goal of creating 100 new communities of faith, but it can boast at least 25 “church plants” across the country. A number of United Church–connected communities have started up in the last few years, thanks to the efforts of motivated community members and with support from the national church.