 John Bentley Mays is a Toronto author and journalist. His award-winning journalism has appeared in the Globe and Mail , National Post and Walrus magazine.
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Farming for food or energy? |
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Written by John Bentley Mays
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Friday, 02 May 2008 |
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 At last, the food crisis now afflicting millions of the Earth’s poorest people has caught the attention of the well-off nations of Europe and North America. One has to wonder whether we would have ever woken up had not riots and protests broken out earlier this year in a dozen countries across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 02 May 2008 )
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Internet may spell end of newspaper |
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Written by John Bentley Mays
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Thursday, 17 April 2008 |
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The North American newspaper is a wonderful thing. Since its rise some 300 years ago, this medium has helped build civil society and advance democracy. It has linked people together over the vast distances of the continent, and it has provided these people with the facts about what is happening in the world, and why. |
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Conversion is good news |
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Written by John Bentley Mays
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Friday, 04 April 2008 |
We could have predicted the outcry of Muslim clerics following the Easter Baptism of Italian journalist Magdi Allam (“Muslim writer’s public conversion upsets scholars ,” April 6).
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Paying the price of faith |
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Written by John Bentley Mays
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Tuesday, 25 March 2008 |
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 For many Catholics around the world, including this one, the joy of this Easter season has been shadowed by the sadness and rage we feel at the kidnapping and death of Paulos Faraj Rahho, Chaldean Catholic archbishop of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
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Resist the culture of death |
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Written by John Bentley Mays
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Friday, 07 March 2008 |
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The culture of death hates the Catholic Church, with good reason. We stand for life in all its fullness, beauty and possibility, perhaps never before more actively and consistently than we do right now. |
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