Sault Ste. Marie native and Christian PeaceMaker Team - Iraq hostage James Loney faced a hoard of reporters today as he arrived in Toronto. Standing before a bank of microphones the media was respectfully silent as he delivered a statement in a quiet voice, looking tired, joyful and overwhelmed. Family and friends stood with dignity beside him. 
CTV has a video of his statement, [...]

According to The National Post, the Iraq Embassy in Canada is not at all pleased with the Christian Peacemaker Team’s statement released this week.
The Iraq embassy is on MacLeod Street in Ottawa, (wikipedia) ( Embassy Magazine) and according to Foreign Affairs the Iraq Ambassador to Canada is Howar Ziad, who has been the Iraq Ambassador to [...]

I stole this complete post from Maggi Dawn.
This is using humour to offset the very serious movements within some protestant denominations that border on mysoginism, particularily in the southern US. And some leaders are sincere sorts who will never be able to believe or accept anything other than what they’ve known culturally.
One of the female commenters at Maggi’s site put [...]

The Guardian is quoting unnamed sources in this piece as it gives details about the rescue of three Western men held captive since November in Baghdad. The unnamed source says the CPT workers were freed because of a rift among the kidnappers. The rift began to occur when leaders of ‘The Swords of Righteousness Brigade’ [...]

James Travers has an op-ed in the Toronto Star with points that bear repeating. As 3 Canadians who were kinapped in Gaza and Bagdad were released this week Travers warns us we have an image that has not caught up to reality.
Back when the first priority was keeping hostile states at arm’s length, this country [...]

Politics Watch has a list of 10 Conservatives that are less likely to stay on the same page as Harper once parliament gets underway. It’s likely they will stray off the five talking points Harper has insisted his party members stick too.
While such a strategy is effective in the corporate world, this is politics and [...]

From Dave Walker of The Cartoon Blog fame comes We Blog Cartoons. Cool eh?

Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.

I’m wondering if we need to fine-tune our direction yet again. That is, put the burden of “the list” on an aggregation service such as Del.icio.us or Bloglines under pre-defined categories - and simply create a mob-blog using WordPress to pick off categories.
The question is, who populates the list?
One of the successes of Martin Roth’s [...]