Archive for October, 2007



The announcement by the bishop of the diocese in which Grenville Christian College was located near Brockville came two days after a Toronto law firm sent notices to the diocese, the school and one of the former headmasters, saying it represented a group of former students considering civil action.
Bishop George Bruce interviewed about 40 former [...]

2 million people die every year because they don’t have clean water.
I haven’t seen Real Live Preacher this excited in awhile, he’s taking a course with a none profit named Edge that uses a simple system to provide clean water. So simple even Real Live Preacher can do it.:^) 
He isn’t just learning how to put this sucker together, he is [...]

An IT employee of R.G. Mitchell Family Books (a Toronto Christian book distribution company) made his first court appearance yesterday.
Rick Wilde is charged with first degree murder in the Thursday death of one of his two daughters.
The North York man walked to 33 Division of the Toronto Police force shortly after 10 pm and turned himself in.
Reports vary on whether his wife [...]

Liberal MP Garth Turner’s post on the federal Conservative data base called CMIS got attention from media and privacy experts this week.
Good.
Knowing any contact with a federal Conservative riding office puts me into their data base for their use is useful to me. 
NDP, Green and Liberals allow voters to see their contact ’file’ on request, and the [...]

The ‘Value Voters’ ( how can anyone say that with a straight face?) crowd had their big meeting in Washington this weekend sponsored by various political evangelical parachurch groups.
The Republican presidential candidates dutifully showed up for their pandering and pitches.  Attendance was estimated at about 2 thousand.
This is a black and white thinking, authoritarian political [...]

“(Be it resolved that this Synod request that) the Bishop grant permission for clergy, whose conscience permits, to bless duly solemnized and registered civil marriages, including marriages between same-sex couples, where at least one party is baptized; and that the Bishop authorize an appropriate rite and make regulations for its use in supportive parishes.”
Clergy:
44 YES
25 [...]

The US war on Christmas folks have started early, need the money I guess. It’s not even Halloween yet.
Get your War Defense kit at World Net Daily:
This is America! And I’m going to say it: ‘Merry Christmas!’”
“It is STILL a wonderful life – Merry Christmas!”
“Merry Christmas! An American Tradition”
But wait! There’s more! They are magnitized [...]

Canadian Mahar Arar who was held in New York in 2002 while returning home was sent by US agents to a Syria prison where he was tortured, has received an official apology, investigation, letters to Syria and the US and financial compensation by the Canadian government.
He is forbidden from travelling over US airspace and US politicians are divided over their policy of [...]



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