Ottawa will announce a multimillion dollar compensation package for Maher Arar on Friday, CTV News has learned.
The package includes personal compensation of more than $10 million, a $2-million payment for Arar’s legal fees, and an official apology, CTV’s Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fife reported.
“After months of secret negotiations, a dark chapter in Maher Arar’s life [...]

On August 24, 2006 I posted the strange and sad story of Carl and Vicki Peterson of Tulsa Oklahoma. She had been a televangelist and musician in the Word of Faith movement, he had been a prominent psychiatrist.
The post has seen a fair bit of traffic.
Martha ‘Vicki’ Peterson was taken into protective custody by the state [...]

For the 3rd year a technology and blogging conference is being held at the University of British Columbia. This year it is being held February 23-24, 2007. The information and registration site is here.
Friday night is called Moose Camp.:^) It’s a jam packed couple of days covering everything from social software, wikis to legal issues bloggers [...]

I mentioned that a controversial blog that is causing an uproar in New Zealand had incurred the wrath of Children, Youth and Family Services.
So much so the Chief Executive of Ministry of Social Development, New Zealand, Head of CYFS New Zealand, Peter Hughes popped his cork in the media yesterday.
…”do whatever is necessary to get [...]

I’ve been reading Mel White’s book, Religion Gone Bad; The Hidden Danger of the Religious Right and I’m surprised. If you got in my face and asked me why I’m surprised, I suppose I’d try to stammer out I had hidden expectations, but that isn’t quite it.
This book is not going where I expected it to go. [...]

“Do you love me? Then feed my sheep. Don’t feed on my sheep!”
nakedpastor - May 2006
David is a minister, and an artist (some of his artwork is on his blog). He is a man who has walked away from evangelical triumphalism. He is minister at a Vineyard Church in Rothsay New Brunswick. His blog is [...]

New Zealand is in an uproar over a website that is naming and shaming employees that work for Child, Youth and Family Services.
The blog which has about 54 posts based on emails this month is run anonymously; a whistle blowing, complaint site of sorts. Heartbreaking and angry stories are pouring in from all over the country. The level of frustration is [...]

A guy who has called himself The Spam King is facing the wrath of MySpace.
The suit was filed in Los Angeles U.S. District Court and MySpace is asking for damages under the federal Can-Spam law in addition to California anti-spam laws. MySpace is also asking for a permanent injunction which would prevent Richter and his [...]