Bene Diction
Anti-bullying too radical for Ontario religious right
303.1 Every board shall support pupils who want to establish and lead,(a) activities or organizations that promote gender equity;(b) activities or organizations that promote anti-racism;(c) activities or organizations that promote the awareness and understanding of, and respect for, people with disabilities; or(d) activities or organizations that promote the awareness and understanding of, and respect for, [...]
Hill Times interview with Dennis Gruending
How much real influence do these advocacy and lobby groups have at influencing public policy, such as the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada; the Canadian Centre for Policy Studies; the Institute for Canadian Values, the National House of Prayer, and 4MyCanada, Campaign for Life, the Catholic Civil Rights League, and REAL Women of Canada? [...]
National Post runs McVety family values ad
An Ontario election ad placed in The National Post by Charles McVety’s Institute for Family Values is being protested around Canada. This is a continuation of McVety’s campaign started last year against proposed revisions to Ontario’s sex ed program, including classic ‘family value’ false claims. A few: -optional lessons aren’t mandatory – like other Canadian [...]
Update to Cranmer Foundation activist Mike Daley/Michael Bracci
My sincere thank you to Richard Bartholomew of Barthlomew’s Notes on Religion for a followup on this post: The Anglican Right and the Cramner Foundation of Canada. A commenter pointed out that Mike Daley was really a fellow named Michael Gordon Bracci. Bracci went to the UK and resurfaced on Twitter as Lord Credo. He’s been [...]
BC’s John Cummins says Canadian GLBT don’t need human rights protection
BC Conservative Party leader candidate John Cummins says being gay is a choice. Cummins is the uncontested candidate for leader of the party, which holds it’s leadership vote May 28th. Cummins made the remark during an interview on CFAX. The Times Colonist: “I’m not a scientist” but “some of the research tells me that there’s [...]
Is Chapters Indigo playing politics with paperback release of The Armageddon Factor?
As I noted last week – Marci McDonald’s revised edition of The Armageddon Factor was released by Random House April 13, 2011. Being that it is a revised trade paperback which according to Random House is available, where is it? How come I can’t get a copy from Chapters Indigo? It’s a fair question I posed [...]
McDonald’s The Armageddon Factor revealed Planned Parenthood International defunding
In the revised and updated paperback edition of The Armageddon Factor, author Marci McDonald writes about the defunding of International Planned Parenthood Federation after 40 years of co-operation with the Canadian government. Along with new material on Brad Trost, McDonald writes this after recapping the hue and cry over Bev Oda’s announcement that abortion would [...]
Vote Pray Serve.ca – Violating the Elections Act?
Who is behind this website? Vote Pray Serve was set up by a person or persons unknown on March 21, 2011, five days before the write was dropped and according to Whois was registered by Sibername Internet and Software Technologies Inc. The website states it is run by a group of volunteers who are soliciting [...]
Canada celebrates Israel: Christian Zionism and the election
Dennis Gruending. April 2011. Used by permission. All rights reserved. On day 12 of the federal election campaign Stephen Harper was in Markham, Ontario wooing immigrant voters. That same evening in Ottawa several hundred people gathered at a church called the Peace Tower on Bronson Avenue not far from Parliament Hill. There they pledged fealty [...]
Bev Oda and the KAIROS fiasco
By Dennis Gruending Pulpit and Politics 2011. Used by permission. All rights reserved I have posted several pieces over the past year about the Harper government’s decision to deny project money to the ecumenical social justice group KAIROS. I have also written about CIDA Minister Bev Oda’s deceitful behaviour in the whole matter. For months [...]
