Archive for November, 2007



Then one night last week the Milton parade committee met, and the person responsible for chastising me for wanting to walk, told his colleagues he intends to call the Halton Regional Police and have me arrested if I show up on the parade route. Since then at least one of the committee members has indicated [...]

Have you ever heard of Stormfront?
A 21 year old Calgary woman who posted on the nazi christian identity white supremacy site based in the US has, and is paying a price. (Stormfront has a Canadian thread) Between 2003 and 2006, Jessica Beaumont, writing under Jessy Destruction posted 1023 messages at the Canadian Stormfront forum.
A Calgary woman has been fined $1,500 [...]

30 hours after a mentally ill man was tasered in Nova Scotia while being booked at Dartmouth Correctional centre, he is dead. He went into medical distress after being tasered, (police administered first aid - read CPR) was taken to hospital, checked and released back to jail. 
Police are asking people not to jump to conclusions and wait until the medical [...]

The officer pulled out the taser and zapped a father while his wife and children screamed in the car.
ABC news
The cruiser dash cam captured the police officers actions.

A 36-year-old man was still listed in “extremely critical” condition yesterday after he sustained injuries during an arrest in Chilliwack on Monday.
Police confirmed a Taser, baton and pepper spray [...]

Dr. Adrian Warnock entered blogging with big ambitions, and I think he worked hard to fulfil them. He started a blog aggregator for evangelicals at The Truth Laid Bear called The Blogdom of God, and made efforts to reach out to others. His aggregator scrapped blogs and when some of us protested, he cleaned it up.
A. [...]

November 22, 2006, Conservapedia was launched. Founder Andrew Schlafly (son of Eagle Forum President Schlafly) started it as a project for home schooled kids in New Jersey.  Schlafly felt Wikipedia was liberal, biased, anti-Christian and anti-American. It is also used  Teen Eagles and Eagle Forum University students - a continuing education  project.
What are home schooled  evangelicals in the US interested [...]

 - 7.8 million children ( under 20 years of age) in Canada. According to Unicef, we rank 12th out of 21 industrialized countries in child wellbeing
Poverty
- One in six living in poverty
- Rate is 20 per cent higher today than in 1989
- Rates higher among aboriginals and children of single parents.
Health
- Infant mortality down 22 per [...]

The Evangelical Outpost’s Joe Carter, who is employed by The Family Research Council as Director of Web Communications is taking a leave of absense. Carter is heading to Little Rock to work for the Mick Huckabee campaign in research and rapid response communications.
He might want to ask Blogs for Fred to take his name offline as media contact [...]



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