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Paying the Christ Tax
John Baglow 2010. Used by permission. All rights reserved “Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s.” Thanks to the efficient Harper government, Canadians are doing both at once. Since 2008, there has been a spike in Christian funding by the feds–using our tax money. As reported [...]
Like a sneak peek at the book all Ottawa will be reading next week?
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. It will be a long week for Ottawa’s Christian conservatives next week, thanks to former Maclean’s staffer Marci McDonald. And thanks to the fact that I have obtained her new book, The Armageddon Factor three days before its formal release on May 11, I can give [...]
Harper’s hard right turn
Harper’s hard right turn. Paul Wells at his best. Chock full of examples…Rights and Democracy, Youth for Christ Winnipeg, Catholic Register and womens rights, Insite, The Manning Centre, Institute for Marriage and Family Canada (Focus on the Family Canuck style) and more. One minor beef, Charles McVety being referred to as Dr. McVety. Taken together, [...]
Politicizing Misery
Glen Pearson 2010. Used by permission. All rights reserved I guess the goodwill had to wear off at some point. For weeks now, as the opposition critic for international cooperation, I have been peppered with media questions about CIDA’s performance in Haiti. I’ve refused to rise to the bait, following a longstanding tradition of political [...]
Canada’s ties to the Council for National Policy
From Dawn thot :summary. The full 20 page .pdf can be downloaded from the link. The chart at Dawn thot is interactive. Clicking on each organization will give you a quick summary of what the organizations beliefs are. I think many Canadian Conservatives would be dismayed if they knew the extent of the economic and [...]
Jason Kenney blames Bev Oda for KAIROS funding turndown
The Star from Immigration Minister Jason Kenney to KAIROS Your twin accusations that I accused the advocacy group KAIROS of anti-Semitism and that this is why the Canada International Development Agency did not approve a cost-sharing program with the group are false. I did not accuse KAIROS of being anti-Semitic. What I said was that [...]
KAIROS fights CIDA cuts
By Dennis Gruending 2009. Used by permission. All rights reserved In October, I attended a fundraising dinner and auction at Ottawa church to support a legal clinic to assist women in eastern Congo. In some of their stories, captured on a brief video, the women describe how they had been gang raped and brutalized by [...]
4MyCanada meets with MP’s
On November 16th, 2009 4MyCanada and NHOP (see comments) held an appreciation reception for MP’s on Parliament Hill. According to Richard Long of NHOP – National House of Prayer Ottawa: Faytene Kryskow and her team did a wonderful job of sharing their hearts and creating an event of impact. The highlight of the night was [...]
Canada’s C Street. Holy Pancakes
I’d like to read Jeff Sharlet’s best seller: The Family and hope to get my hands on a copy eventually. For a Canadian slant have a look at Canada’s C Street. Holy Pancakes at A Creative Revolution. As I mentioned in the title, we have our own “C Street” or “Family” here too. And they [...]
We Were Wrong. There IS No Hidden Conservative Agenda.
StageLeft: life on the left side Back before the first Conservative Party electoral sort-of victory, we lefties were convinced that the Harperite wing of the party was driven by a secret program for Canada, a list of priorities antithetical to what we thought our country was all about. No-one ever set out their “secret Conservative [...]
