Archive for May, 2009
March for Life Hits Ottawa
Today is the annual Campaign Life Coalition demo in Ottawa, March for Life (or, in its present incarnation, Exodus 2009). The anticipated event has received coverage in the Globe and Mail, despite Michael Coren’s complaint in the National Post that the cause is being systematically ignored. Dammit Janet! summarizes some of the media back-and-forth. Are [...]
Finding the Pro-Life Caucus on Parliament Hill
From Terrible Depths: It’s not partisan. It doesn’t have a website. There is a chairman – normally two – and possibly even an independent staff of assistants. It’s been operating on Parliament Hill for the last decade, maybe more, and there still hasn’t been a public listing of its members. The “it” I’m referring to [...]
Michael Coren and Garth Turner
Sun columnist and CTS TV host Michael Coren doesn’t like something in former MP Garth Turner’s new book: Sheeple: Caucus Confidential in Stephen Harper’s Ottawa. One particular issue Coren takes issue with was beaten to death at the time and was recently resurrected by Coren as fodder for two columns. On May 2nd Coren wrote [...]
Pope Benedict has no sense of irony
Dammit Janet! …And in other news, bears shit in the woods. Pope Benedict XVI called on Christians and Muslims today to serve mankind with the “light of God’s truth” while warning that extremists in nations such as Iraq were exploiting religious differences for political and violent agendas. Speaking at the Al Hussein bin Talal Mosque, [...]
Honour Killings Test the Canadian Judicial System
Dr. Dawg explores the apparent strategy by Hasibullah Sadiqi to defend his killing of his sister and her fiancée in Ottawa as a matter of honour: the defence team will concede that he indeed shot the couple, but argue provocation… It is not the eventual outcome of the trial that concerns me here. It is [...]
The Religious Right and the Albertan Human Rights Commission
The Stelmach government in Alberta, when it introduced Bill 44 to amend the province’s Human Rights Act, thought it could make great hay out of a new section establishing “parental rights,” which would let parents yank their kids from classes which touched on religion or sexual orientation (whoops… so much for gay rights…). It might [...]
Daily Roundup for May 8, 2009
The Canada Family Action Coalition and Equipping Christians for the Public Square are endorsing Alberta’s Bill 44, which the government initially suggested would allow parents to pull their kids from “evolution classes” on religious grounds. Ezra Levant raised a few eyebrows last week with his deliberately provocative op-ed arguing that the Canadian Jewish Congress was [...]
Daily Roundup for May 7, 2009
American Grace – A new study in the US says the rate of none church goers has jumped from 5 to 10% to 30 to 40%. That’s disturbing. What is more disturbing is why. Street Prophets: “Many of them are people who would otherwise be in church,” Putnam said. “They have the same attitudes and [...]
Canadian Charity Leaves Tangled Trail
Universal Aide Society of BC has had its charity licence revoked by The Canada Revenue Agency. The society had been the subject of an article two years ago in The Toronto Star series Give and Take. The licence was yanked April 25th. The Universal Aide Society website is still up with no mention of the [...]
News Roundup for May 5, 2009
Buckets at Bouquets of Gray points out that new demographic assessments by the Wilson Centre establish that the West is not poised on the brink of “Islamification,” after all (h/t Creative Revolution) StageLeft takes on social conservative Kathy Shaidle’s recent remarks regarding Canada’s human rights commissions Another figure on the religious right, John Pacheco – [...]
