CBC:
B.C. hospitals and carehomes are checking their inventories of sliced meats after at least two cases of listeriosis were identified in patients in B.C.
One patient in Fort St. John and another in Prince George were being treated for the same strain of the bacterial infection identified in the nationwide recall of Maple Leaf Foods meat [...]

If you haven’t seen this hilarious event from the Iowa State Fair, set down what you’re drinking.

via: Of course, I could be wrong

Bow.James Bow:
Speaking as a Christian, I just want to say that I am embarrassed that social conservatives like Charles McVety claim to represent who I am and what I believe. Nothing could be further from the truth. For one thing, I have integrity, and I don’t try to deceive people.
A Creative Revolution on having it [...]

The Pew Report released it’s study last week which takes a fascinating look at who and how consumes news different ways: Integrated, Net Users and Traditionalists. How they consume news is an indicator of what they learn.
Most Americans fall into the three core news audiences - Integrators, Traditionalists, or Net-Newsers. The fourth group - [...]

Angelina Steenstra of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign says membership should not be given to people who cause divisions within Canada.
Steenstra’s group delivered a box of petitions Wednesday to the Governor General’s residence in Ottawa, which she said contained the signatures of 30,000 Canadians opposed to the naming of abortion doctor Henry Morgentaler to [...]

Michael Savage, a radio talk show host in the US has decided to drop his lawsuit against CAIR who urged a boycott for his remarks about Muslims. Bartholmews Notes on Religion

A FORMER Adelaide pastor who inspired hundreds of thousands of young Christians with his with his terminal cancer “battle” has been exposed as a fraud.
Michael Guglielmucci, whose parents established Edge Church International, an Assemblies of God church at O’Halloran Hill, is now seeking professional help.
Earlier this year, Mr Guglielmucci released a [...]

Finally.
And the religious groups are now down to 26.
And a legal look at The Canada Family Action complaint. I got a kick out of one of the commenters who pointed out Christopher Bird’s use of Isaiah 8:20.
“To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because [...]