A group of religious right lawyers in Canada who received their charitable status in 2007 for their Faith and Freedom Alliance believe religion freedom is under attack. The group aligns with Focus on the Family Canada, REAL Women of Canada, The Christian Legal Fellowship, Catholic Civil Rights League and the Canadian Council of Christian Charities.
Good background here. John Carpay of the Canadian Constitution Foundation was a featured speaker at the Alliances 2010 Christian Legal Intervention Academy held the the first weekend in June in Toronto.

There is a good post on Quebecors ‘Fox News North’ centred around the Sun media chain by Rev. Paperboy. Great line. “Goodbye reasonable discourse, nice knowing you.”  Because it has done such great things for American Politics

• Pope Benedict XVI has issued a statement of “sorrow” but not an apology, after meeting with First Nations leaders to discuss the residential school system. (h/t Dammit Janet!, Unrepentant Old Hippie)

• David MacDonald and 4 My Canada director Faytene Kryskow have presented a 18 222-signature petition to the Governor-General, demanding she revoke Henry Morgentaler’s Order of Canada (h/t SoCon or Bust)

• Martin Cohn of the Toronto Star reports on Tony Blair’s Faith Foundation, which recently brought him to speak in Toronto.

• The Liberal policy convention will apparently consider overturning the Harper government ban on organ donations from gay men (h/t Slap Upside the Head

• On the National Post blog Holy Post, John Stackhouse argues that evolution has taken an unacceptable turn and become “a religion, an all-encompassing wolrdview and a ‘myth’… – the governing story of a people.”