Parliament Hill
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 cooperation [...]
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 ideological [...]
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 has [...]
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 young [...]
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 their special [...]
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 too do [...]
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 Agenda” [...]
Paul Wells, Macleans: second thoughts on Canada’s religious right
In this old column I made extravagant fun of the notion that the Harper government was overly beholden to an assortment of picturesque Christianists. Tonight I’m not so sure I was right.
Paul Wells
He is rethinking his 2006 article on Marci McDonald’s Walrus article which is the defining piece which this site uses for definition. (See [...]
Who is Tom Flanagan?
A new Tory operative, University of Calgary professor Tom Flanagan, recently weighed in on the continuing Human Rights Commission debates, predictably arguing that the Commissions should be sent to the junkyard, but adding the novel, anti-historical, ideological twist that the free market is a better cure for discrimination.
A trio of Canadian bloggers promptly leaped on [...]
The Parlimentary Pro-Life Caucus: Identifying the Members
From Terrible Depths
As promised, the following updates my previous post on the Parliamentary Pro-Life Caucus, a secretive group of pro-life parliamentarians in Ottawa. Interestingly, the article, after being cross-posted at Religious Right Alert, was picked up by the blog of Equipping Christians for the Public Square, a religious right political advocacy group currently headed up [...]
