Broadview Magazine

“OF THE BEST,” “large, airy and spacious,” “last word in modern equipment,” “completes the requirements,” “expert” medical attention,  “choice land,” “gives every satisfaction.” The Christian Guardian, a predecessor publication to Broadview, did not hold back its praise when describing the newly opened Edmonton Indian Residential School in 1925. “How mu...

On an unseasonably warm winter day in January 1916, a 27-year-old man walked into the enlistment office in Winnipeg and volunteered to fight in the First World War that was ravaging Europe.

The only name he provided was Baboo. The official paperwork required a “Christian name,” but the Sikh man didn’t have one.

Born in Punjab, India in 1888, he served for four y...

When word got out that a Weston-area church needed money for a new roof, the first donation came from a man who depends on it each week for food.

“It was some pocket change,” said Cassandra Golondrina, the deacon who leads St. Thomas Anglican Church. “It was like the widow’s mite in the Bible, small but so very significant.”

It’s going to take a lot of pocket ch...

Russia has found a new way to expand its reach into Africa — and it doesn’t involve soldiers. 

In the face of crippling Western sanctions and a need for international allies, Moscow has been working through the Russian Orthodox Church to expand its reach, says

Back in 2018, a National Geographic headline caught my attention: “For decades, our coverage was racist. To rise above our past, we must acknowledge it.” The subhead explained that a historian had investigated their coverage of people of colour in the United States and abroad and now they were publishing the findings.

I read that headline in the same year I became edit...