Monthly Archives: December 2008

I learned only this morning; of far-right blowhard Richard Evans’ pattern of attacks on a female blogger Polly Jones. These culminated recently in a suggestion that Jones kill herself, left as a comment on a post in which she, perhaps … Continue reading →

Iggy hasn’t been crowned king of the Liberal Party yet. But this didn’t take long, did it? Parachuting. Oh. Clever. Same day as the Harper olive branch of course.

Voice of the Martyrs is a para-church ministry that does a great deal to point people to persecution of Christians around the world. I have respect and admiration for the Canadian director, Glenn Penner, we can agree and disagree on none … Continue reading →

While I don’t expect US citizens to know Canadian politics much less care, Canada’s fundamentalists aren’t going to miss an opportunity when they see one. Brian Rushfeldt of The Canada Family Action Coalition is quite happy to tell a select group of neighbours to … Continue reading →

Outstanding piece in The Village Voice which goes into the Lubavitch Jewish community in the Agriprocessor crisis.

“Canada lost 70,600 jobs in November, about three times more than many economists had expected, Statistics Canada reported on Friday. It was the biggest decline in 26 years. – NYT PM partisan, passionate and profane (Interesting  that Mulroney friends are … Continue reading →

Dave Warnock at 42 has an excellent series of posts on the language of violence in evangelicalism and lively well worth reading comments under the posts.

A Muslim graveyard in the heart of Mumbai has broken with Islamic tradition and refused to bury the bodies of nine terrorists who were killed during the attack on India’s financial capital. The influential Muslim Jama Masjid Trust, which runs … Continue reading →