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News digest May 5, 2010
Senator Nancy Ruth (Conservative) appointed by Liberal government in 2005 Fuddle Duddle Federal funding cuts to Canadian womens groups Blogging the Galloway case – we move to canada How George Galloway was barred from Canada in less than two hours -Globe & Mail Background at Canadian Dimension: Jason Kenney: Point man for a theocratic state? [...]
Garry Breitkreuz Still Battling With Police Over Right to Bear Arms
“A program can’t run without money and we’ll keep pressing the government until all the funding for this useless program is cut off completely.” On September 22, 1998, a large group of what I will call “gun enthusiasts” marched on Parliament Hill. They billed it as Fed Up II, so I can only assume there [...]
Serge LeClerc Saskatchewan Party MLA steps aside, says he’s been smeared
This is a strange one. The CBC lead the story with the politician who is at the centre of it on Friday. MLA Serge LeClerc (Saskatoon Northwest) who was a former director of Saskachewan Teen Challenge (2000-2007) stepped done from provincial caucus Friday, after a 12 minute audio recording of an internet chat and a [...]
The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada attacked by Charles McVety
I don’t think I’ve ever seen this before. Canada Christian College president Charles McVety, launches a rather vicious verbal barrage at The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada. In his word.ca program aired on The Miracle Channel and the IChannel (program #403) McVety hurls names at Christians who don’t accept his anti-science, climate change denial; more names [...]
The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada are hyper-environmentalists – Charles McVety
On Sunday April 11, 2010, Canada Christian College president Charles McVety went on television and called Christians across Canada earthies, hyper-environmentalists and apostates. (Word.ca program 403). McVety uses his imaginings and a 2006 US commercial from the Competitive Enterprise Institute called Global Warming=Energy to promote his hyperbolized climate change denial. The commercial he bases his [...]
Another Cry on the horizon?
Faytene Kryskow Hey Everyone….if you are wondering if we are doing a CRY this summer the answer is no, but maybe . We feel to time the next CRY with the next election call. So, as soon as the election is called (whenever that is) assume a CRY is only a couple weeks around the [...]
News roundup March 30th, 2010
The Canada Family Action Coalition acknowledges it has held private meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Haper and members of the current government six times since 2008. The oganization is tied into the evangelical fundamentalist Canada Christian College in Toronto, and is known for bragging about access to federal politicians. Formed in 1979, the group is [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
