News and Roundups
News Roundup: Education Edition
Two religious battles over education now appear to be shaping up in this country: one over religious education in Québec, and the other over new parental rights legislation in Alberta. The Albertan controversy, which has been discussed previously on this site as well as at other blogs, is being covered regularly by Big City Lib, [...]
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 [...]
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 – [...]
Daily Roundup for May 4, 2009
A new website, ContactMPs.com, allows you to spam all Members of Parliament urging them to support a select list of pro-life and pro-family causes (h/t SoCon or Bust, Birchbark Bible) The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada are collaborating to defend the federal Assisted Human Reproduction Act, arguing that if [...]
Daily roundup May 2, 2009
Michael Coren notices former MP Garth Turner mentions Canada Christian College president Charles McVety a lot in Turner’s latest book Sheeple. 34 pages of mention to be exact. Coren denies ever hearing McVety say that he could ‘pick up the phone and reach Stephen Harper in two minutes.’ Voice of the Martyrs Canada weblog expresses [...]
Daily Roundup for April 30, 2009
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 [...]
Daily Roundup April 24, 2009
Slap Upside the Head continues to cover the Albertan gay benefits policy. Premier Ed Stelmach has now defended his minister and Treasury Board president Lloyd Snelgrove, by declaring in Question Period that the government will continue its policy of recognizing same-sex spouses as “benefit partners” rather than as “spouses”: “the benefits are the same… and [...]
Daily Roundup for April 23
There are signs that the religious right hopes to play a role in the Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership competition. Frank Klees, Bene Diction wrote weeks ago, is connected to Charles McVety. Randy Hillier also has religious right connections. His campaign is run by Tristan Emmanuel (h/t Buckets at Bouquets of Gray), former director of Equipping [...]
Daily Roundup for April 22
The government of Alberta is refusing to permit employees to list their same-sex spouses as, well, spouses – they must be registered in the more limited category of “benefit partner.” Treasury Board president Lloyd Snelgrove says his government has “no intention of changing the definition of spouse to include people in same-sex marriages.” (h/t Slap [...]
