According to the 2001 Stats Can report, 1525 citizens listed their religion as Scientology.
Over 150 Canadians protested in front of Scientology offices in Toronto, Winnipeg and Montreal as part of a world wide protest called for by a cyber group named Anonymous. Scientology lists eight locations in Canada.
Scientologists reacted with their usual outrage; calling the protests religious hate crimes.
“Anonymous’ [...]
A revised lawsuit against Oral Roberts University has a whooper of a claim.
Trent Huddleston, who filed a wrongful dismissal claim against the University’s former board and Oral Roberts Evangelistic Ministries initially filed in November 2007.
He was employed at ORU as a senior accountant from July 2006 to October 2007. His amended claim was filed with the [...]
If you were the minister of a church and one of your members came up to you and offered you 50 thousand dollars to leave (resign) what would you do?
If problems within the congregation had gotten that divisive, would you take the money and run? Just run? Stay?
That isn’t the worst of it though. The public [...]
“This man needs to trade 20 points of his mighty IQ for an ounce of common sense.” - A commenter a The Times Online Religion blog
The Archbishop of Canterbury managed to take Anglican focus off homosexuality and schism yesterday and get people talking about reacting to a lecture on sharia law.
His lecture was: Civil and Religious Law in England: [...]
Missed this.
Drudge didn’t, nor have bloggers.
David Suzuki, a well known Canadian scieintist and environmentalist has - not once - but twice suggested out on the university lecture curcuit that government leaders who are not acting on environmental issues should be sent to jail.
The first time was at The University of Toronto a month ago. The second was [...]
The Canadian Council of Churches is the largest ecumenical body in Canada, now representing 21 churches of Anglican, Evangelical, Eastern and Oriental Orthodox, Protestant and Roman Catholic traditions.
In a letter to the Prime Minister dated 25 Jun 2007, the President, The Rev. Dr. James Christie, and the General Secretary, The Rev. Dr. Karen Hamilton, expressed [...]
via: Connexions
This news search engine was one of four new European products that got good to rave reviews at a major trade show called DEMO 08.
Silobreaker is an online search service for news and current events that delivers meaning and relevance beyond traditional search and aggregation engines. Its relational analysis and explanatory graphics provide users with [...]
the blinder the passion, the more tenacious it is. It is never more solid than when it is unreasonable. - Victor Hugo
James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family is becoming increasingly known for his vehement political statements. These regular pronouncements make their way into the public discourse when the Fotf leader is displeased and thinks his voice [...]

“We Canadians live in a blind spot about our identity. We have very strong feelings about who we aren’t but only weak ones about who we are. We’re passionate about what we don’t want to become but oddly passive about More
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