Kady O’Malley’s liveblogging at Macleans is very Canadianie.
For my US friends that’s spelled Canadiany.
Her Stalking the (Could Be) President; caps even -very Canadianie, don’t you think? - BD  is a observational romp through the tedium of covering US global electioneering, John McCain’s stop in Ottawa.  And for your weekend reading: Part 2,  the street version.
Catlin Moran at [...]

Recently bloggers have been asking questions about Charles McVety and his doctorates.
Good on them.
I do not have the answer to many of my questions below, I’m putting up what I’ve found, there are top notch bloggers well equipped to follow the twisted trails.
Bill Kinnon did diploma mill homework, bouncing off this BDBO post and a [...]

Yesterday BetaNews reported that The A.P. is now instead assessing a licensing fee for republished content, which looks a little something like this:

5-25 words: $12.50
26-50 words: $17.50
51-100 words: $25.00
101-250 words: $50.00
251 words and up: $100.00

More at ZNet
In the name of “defin[ing] clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts [...]

Televangelist Peter Popoff’s ministry has reimbursed a Nanaimo woman after she went public with concerns about the fundraising techniques used by the California-based church.
The Nanaimo (BC) Daily News
The first story about the Popoff rip off and Josie Gurney appeared in the Nanaimo paper May 12th and was drawn to the attention of the Popoff headquarters [...]

The paperback edition of Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know–And Doesn’t by Stephen Prothero chair of the religion department at Boston University came out in March. The book was named on the the best books of 2007 by The Washington post and received wide acclaim.
Prothero’s book made a splash because of his research, [...]

To our Senators:
Thank you!
(Not the hockey team, the Upper House; specifically the Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce)
The changes proposed by Senators Fox and Moore would:
1. Remove the power for the Minister of Heritage to refuse tax credits based on “public policy” or to issue guidelines about film content, while at the same [...]

Of course, being outside the mainstream is not always a bad thing for pastors—it depends on what the issue is. We can be sure that after this election season, political handlers will be vetting former pastors and theological endorsers far more extensively. The new political rule will be: “No more pastor disasters.” Which likely means [...]

I wouldn’t know how to break a digital lock if I tripped over it. And I’m not about to get a cell-phone or TiVo anytime soon. I’m going to side track here for a sec.
In the US TiVo partnered with Focus on the Family for a superdad write in for Fathers Day. Thing is, [...]