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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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
