Parliament Hill
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Campaign for Life Ottawa March coverage
The Campaign Life Coalition’s Exodus 2009 (I googled Exodus 2009 and hit stories of Sri Lankan civilians displaced in civil war) March for Life held it’s yearly Parliament Hill rally. Just about every year they complain the group claims it doesn’t get either any/enough/favorable/inaccurate media coverage. As mentioned Michael Coren wrote a piece for them in The National Post, [...]
Finding the Pro-Life Caucus on Parliament Hill
From Terrible Depths: It’s not partisan. It doesn’t have a website. There is a chairman – normally two – and possibly even an independent staff of assistants. It’s been operating on Parliament Hill for the last decade, maybe more, and there still hasn’t been a public listing of its members. The “it” I’m referring to [...]
Michael Coren and Garth Turner
Sun columnist and CTS TV host Michael Coren doesn’t like something in former MP Garth Turner’s new book: Sheeple: Caucus Confidential in Stephen Harper’s Ottawa. One particular issue Coren takes issue with was beaten to death at the time and was recently resurrected by Coren as fodder for two columns. On May 2nd Coren wrote [...]
