Human Rights complaint against Manitoba Addiction Foundation

A Winnipeg man who has struggled with alcoholism for decades says he has filed a complaint with the Manitoba Human Rights Commission over the lack of a treatment program that’s free of religious or spiritual elements.
Rob Johnstone said he has battled alcoholism for 40 years and can’t find a treatment program that doesn’t rely on [...]

Inch by inch - Canada’s Economic Action Plan and religious organizations

What is going on with Canada’s Economic Action Plan?
Winnipeg has been the centre of a maelstrom over the past week since Youth for Christ stepped forward with a completed funding proposal in hand for an 11 million dollar rec centre. It’s been huge news in the province, and once the public political fisticuffs was out [...]

Youth for Christ Winnipeg: proselytizing and political patronage

The Winnipeg Free Press has been all over government funding requests by an evangelical para-church organization called Youth for Christ.
The Christian organization, which offers 15 programs in various Winnipeg locations right now, plans to build a 50,000-square foot facility called “Youth Centre of Excellence,” which would include a skate park, fitness centre, dance studio, climbing [...]

Rights and Democracy: Church and State

John Baglow 2010. Used by permission. All rights reserved
The troubled International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development (ICHRDD), familiarly known as Rights and Democracy, is a microcosm of a cultural and political struggle playing itself out in Canada today: progressive values versus a combination of far-right ideology, extremist theology and Middle East politics.
That’s an explosive [...]

Rights and Democracy: David Matas and the Christian connection

John Baglow 2010. All rights reserved. Used by permission
David Matas is a recent Harper appointment to the troubled Rights and Democracy Board. In the interests of fairness and transparency, Maclean’s columnist Paul Wells reproduces a new communication from Matas, whose previous defence of the agency came to the public via far-right activist Ezra Levant.
One can’t fault [...]

Kudos to CHBC (Global) Kelowna

CHBC management made a decision not to air an advocacy commercial even though it had been given a broadcast number by Telecaster, a broadcast commercial clearing house.
The ad was paid for by a BC anti-abortion group called Kelowna Right for Life, and it is probable the group was attempting to garner some pre-Olympic attention.
CHBC general manager Dennis Gabelhouse:
Gabelhouse said [...]

Bibe references found on gun sights

By Dennis Gruending 2010. Used by permission. All rights reserved

 
Coded biblical inscriptions have been found on the telescopic sights of rifles used by soldiers from several nations, including Canada, who are fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. The company that supplied the inscribed weapons initially defended its actions unapologetically, and the response by the American military [...]

CTS operated charity without a licence

Crossroads Television System (CTS) has publicly acknowledged it has been soliciting money from viewers without Revenue Canada Charities blessing.
CTS is a federally-incorporated, not-for-profit corporation without share capital. CTS is licenced for religious programming and has stations in Burlington, Edmonton and Calgary.  Iner Smith, CTS Development representative:
CITS Media Resources Organization launched in the winter of 2009 [...]

Canada Dominionist Conference - Unite For Dominion

Canada’s neo-charismatic dominionists are putting on a show in Calgary January 28-30, 2010.
This is a stellar lineup of religious right leaders who believe Canadians must live under biblical law and they are just the folk to make it happen.
Dick Deweert who founded The Miracle Channel (Canada’s TBN) and who stepped down in 2007 after revelations of [...]

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 [...]