Antoine Sebaalani: Education, Devotion, and the Price of Integrity in Lebanon

Why This Story Must Be Told Lebanon has produced many brilliant minds, eloquent poets, and prolific writers. What it has produced far less frequently are teachers whose lives form a coherent moral narrative from classroom to public square, from poetry to law court, from faith to practice. Antoine Sebaalani belongs to this rarer category. This […]
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Rivals for Power: Ottawa and the Provinces Federalism, Conflict, and the Unfinished Architecture of Canada

Canada is often described as a quiet country, stable, moderate, and compromise-driven. Yet beneath this calm surface lies one of the most complex and continuously contested federal systems in the world. Rivals for Power: Ottawa and the Provinces peels back this calm exterior to reveal a persistent struggle over authority, legitimacy, and identity at the […]
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When Stretching Debt Becomes Policy: What the Logic of 50-Year Mortgages Would Mean

A Familiar Temptation in a New Form In recent months, the idea of a 50-year mortgage has re-entered mainstream housing policy debates in the United States. Promoted as a tool to ease monthly payments amid high interest rates and soaring home prices, the proposal has sparked rare bipartisan scepticism. Economists, housing advocates, mortgage professionals, and […]
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A Living Legacy of White Hands: Welcoming the Maronite Sisters of the Holy Family to Our Lady of Lebanon in Halifax

Some arrivals carry with them more than suitcases and schedules. They carry memory. History. Sacrifice. And a mission shaped long before any of us were born. The arrival of two sisters from the Congregation of the Maronite Sisters of the Holy Family to serve alongside Father Eid at Our Lady of Lebanon Parish in Halifax […]
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