How people talk about God online. What an interesting topic.:^)
I did an article on pod-casting for Spero News this week. I left out a fair bit, including the copious amounts of bandwidth pod-casting requires.
To be honest, it’s not something I’ve paid much attention to. In the time pod-casting has been available I’ve listened to one. [...]
In the lead up to the crucial budget vote in the House of Commons May 20th
British Columbia MP Gurmant Grewal stepped forward to say Liberals had offered him and his wife perks if they skipped the vote. (background)
Grewal said he had about 4 hours of taped conversations.
Now audio and text transcripts are on his site [...]
It is unfortunate that Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan used a word in the media rlease of the 2005 report that has captured attention and polical noise. It serves to drown out what is important.
The focus on this statement gives people an opportunity to inqore substance.
The detention facility at Guantánamo Bay has become the [...]
As the Gomery Inquiry finishes hearing witnesses, one of the ad men charged has pleaded guilty to 15 of 18 fraud charges.
Paul Coffin was head of the Montreal firm Communication Coffin. He was arrested and charged in 2002. His trial was set for June 6th.
Each of the charges can lead to 10 years in jail, [...]
Yesterday a spokesman for the Canadian Red Cross finally admitted what Canadians have known since the 1980’s.
The Red Cross used to manage blood supplies in the country until it was discovered that blood containing HIV and Hepatitis C had been collected and distributed. 3 thousand Canadians have died. About 1 thousand contacted blood borne HIV, [...]
I started blogging three years ago today. Imagine. It’s my Blog Day!
I got a terrific present, an email from a friend, mentor and brother.
I never would have attempted this blogging hobby if it hadn’t been for a guy in Australia - Martin Roth. I think our meeting up three years ago was a divine [...]
The Globe and Mail article on christian activists securing Conservative nominations from - gasp - Halifax to Vancouver is a bit funny.
But it’s not really funny.
Three ridings have nominated declared Christian activists.
Alert the media.
Oh. Wait. They know.
And the spin begins.
Read it for yourself. The bias is there and it’s not going to go away [...]
Lifesite, a conservative Canadian blog is not happy with a depiction of the pope on a tax payer funded webpage.
rabble.ca receives money from The Canadian International Development Agency.
Toronto artist Mike Constable contributes a cartoon to rabble.ca every two weeks.
The Catholic Civil Rights League is protesting the depiction of the current pope doing a nazi salute [...]

“We Canadians live in a blind spot about our identity. We have very strong feelings about who we aren’t but only weak ones about who we are. We’re passionate about what we don’t want to become but oddly passive about More
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