I recently gave a virtual commencement speech at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College in BarryƵapp Bay, Ont. Incidentally, OLSW (as it shall henceforth be abbreviated) is one of only two Canadian Catholic colleges or universities on the prestigious Newman Guide of the Cardinal Newman Society.
McLuhan and Trudeau: Penpals in new age
We live in the age of identity politics, where political and cultural battle lines are drawn around who and what we are. But this is not so new. Forty years ago, CanadaƵapp most powerful politician and its most famous academic were thinking together about media, message, image and identity.
Marshall McLuhanƵapp legendary status confirmed with exhibition
TORONTO – When Marshall McLuhan died New YearƵapp Eve 1980, the University of Toronto lost a man they found slightly embarrassing.
An examination of your social media conscience
Marshall McLuhan, a communications philosopher and former professor at the University of St. MichaelƵapp College in Toronto, once stated that “we make our tools, and then our tools make us.”
Contrasts in evangelization
WINDSOR, ONT. - Between the feast days of CanadaƵapp newest saints, the archbishop of Quebec City argued for an authentically Canadian approach to the evangelization of native peoples that offers a model for the evangelization of culture today.