Ethics
Everyday Ethics
An employee in your small business is a capable worker but an increasingly toxic person. Terminating him promises to be a major headache. Then, a local charity calls saying he has applied for a staff position. They want a reference. What do you tell them?
By Bob Giuliano and Connie denBok November 2008
Everyday Ethics
You are new to a job you badly wanted and are still on probation. Your boss has been helpful and encouraging, but you’ve noticed he has a bad habit of cracking casually racist jokes. You find them offensive but your co-workers seem to put up with them. Do you confront him or keep quiet like the rest?
By Ken Gallinger and Ruth McQuirter Scott October 2008
Column
Have our best efforts to eliminate sexism and racism morphed into new exclusions?
By Connie denBok October 2008
Feature
Nearly half of Canadians believe that dinosaurs and humans co-existed. Is there a missing link in our education system?
By Drew Halfnight September 2008
Everyday Ethics
You’ve been volunteering in a poor country. On departure day, a villager with whom you have worked gives you a piece of her jewelry as a gesture of enduring friendship. It’s important to her that you accept the gift, but you think it could be worth a lot of money. Should you accept it?
By Lee Simpson and Kevin Little September 2008
Everyday Ethics
Your church treasurer, who also happens to be an executive at a large accounting firm, serves your congregation faithfully and diligently. Then one day, a bombshell: his company faces criminal charges in connection with auditing irregularities. Should he continue to handle your church’s finances?
By Bob Giuliano and Connie denBok July 2008
Column
Turn off the cell phone. Put away the iPod. Your language skills are suffering.
By Sara Jewell June 2008
Everyday Ethics
You are a minister, and among your longtime parishioners is a gravely ill 19-year-old woman. In what amounts to a dying wish, she has asked you to marry her and a young man she had been dating casually before she took a turn for the worse. The young man is okay with the idea.
Are you?
By Ken Gallinger and Ruth McQuirter Scott May 2008
Everyday Ethics
An old friend has suffered through a messy divorce, her mother's death and job loss. She talks of nothing but herself and is beginning to try your patience. Then she suggests that the two of you take a long-talked-about vacation together. What do you do?
By Lee Simpson and Kevin Little May 2008
Feature
A veteran business reporter discovered that the philanthropic spirit is thriving in Canada today
By Paul Waldie May 2008
Feature
Is it possible to shrink our ecological footprint
by changing the way we fill our bellies?
By Trisha Elliott April 2008
Everyday Ethics
Your church’s youth group is booming thanks to two energetic adult volunteers. Both leaders are married, but one afternoon you see them leaving a motel together. The youth have spent a year fundraising for an exposure tour to Peru. They leave in a month. What do you do?
By Connie denBok and Bob Giuliano April 2008
