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Community-Run Initiative Emphasizes Self-Sufficiency to Give Hope and Employment to the Underprivileged

December 16, 2022
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OSHAWA—Inside a small Seventh-day Adventist church tucked away in Oshawa’s southeastern side on Nov. 30, 10 people stood on a stage and held diplomas in one hand while raising the other high in the air in a gesture of triumph. They weren’t graduating from high school, college, or university. They were celebrating how a small initiative—run…

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5 Ways to Deal With Despair

May 23, 2022
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Despair can be a killer. As an example, drug overdose deaths in the United States increased by 25 percent from May 2020 through April 2021, sending more than 100,000 Americans to the grave. Whatever sparked this rise in casualties, we can rest assured that most of those who died were living without confidence or faith in the…

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Lockdowns, Closures, and the Loss of Moral Clarity

May 20, 2022
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Commentary Last weekend, an 18-year-old kid slogged a powerful weapon into a Buffalo, New York, grocery store and started shooting people based on race. Thirteen people were slaughtered. His goal was to start a race war, along the lines of the fiction books that inspired his online gurus. He live-streamed the carnage and left a…

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The Joker: A Premonition

January 19, 2022
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Commentary It was two years and a few months ago—only a few months before lockdowns—that I dragged myself to see “Joker,” a movie I dreaded but ended up respecting. “It’s a movie about one man’s descent into madness,” said the ticket taker. “Nothing else.” Why was the ticket seller pre-reviewing this movie for me? The…

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