The final round of the Canadian blog awards opens today (Wednesday). Voting will be open for a week, you may cast one vote in each category.

Bene Diction Blogs On has made the finalist cut in the Best Religious blog category.

As has Hell in a Handbasket by El Maggie of Ottawa Ontario, who described herself as:

I am too hippie for the Christians and too Christian for the hippies. I like riding my bike, wearing pyjamas and knitting (not necessarily all at the same time). I am glad I live in a part of the world with four seasons. I am a lawyer, but don’t hold it against me . . .

Jesus Drives an SUV run by Shawn a student in BC, and Blaisteach a who works in the Canadian religion industry.

Whatever He Says a group blog run by eight women and a men.

Jordon Cooper a Free Methodist working for the Salvation Army in Saskatoon. His background and bio is here.

It will be good to see:
Canadian Jewish, (A Simple Jew no longer blogs but has a listing of Jewish blogs called J-blogs)
Muslim, ( The Balancing Act also has a list of Canadian Muslim bloggers through urbanmoms) 
Hindu, (such as the Devi Mandir site) 
Buddhist, (blog aggregator) 
and other faith blogs participating in the Canadian awards next year - to better represent the varied and thriving faith communities in Canada.