February 2009 National Updates

February 5, 2009

Human rights complaint against Christian Heritage Party dismissed
THE CANADIAN Human Rights Commission (CHRC) has dismissed a complaint against the Christian Heritage Party (CHP) lodged by Edmonton gay activist Rob Wells.
Canadian Christians welcome atheist "competition" on buses
CANADIAN skeptics have announced that they will advertise their atheism on buses and other public-transit vehicles across the country -- and many Christians are welcoming the "competition."
OttawaWatch: Grey and Gibson
SOMETIMES, dogs chase fire trucks. Those dogs know, for sure, that their chasing the fire trucks actually cause the trucks to go in the dog-desired direction.
Quick news
• Ministries agree to cooperate
• Evangelicals concerned about Sri Lanka
• Jews protest bishop's reinstatement
• more
National print news
• Holocaust-denying bishop
• Jews and Judaism
• Islam and the West
• more

February 12, 2009

Bergens return to Kenya to be questioned in court by their attackers
THE FACE-TO-FACE examination of Eloise Bergen, by the suspects in the Kenya attack-and-rape case in which she was the victim, has left her traumatized to the point where she is not yet ready for media interviews on the subject.
Diary of a hoops junkie
LONG AGO, Louis Hurd vowed to make his mother smile each and every day.
Hurd was just five years old and his oldest brother Chris Ledesma, had been convicted of murder, sentenced to 99 years in a Texas prison.
OttawaWatch: Grey and Gibson
THE LATEST developments in the Bill Casey and Chuck Cadman stories provide some opportunity to return to my periodic theme: The roles of deification and demonization in Canada's faith/political interface.
Quick news
• Police arrest street preachers in Calgary
• This book is hot
• For churches that have discovered the computer
• more
National print news
• Evolution and the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin
• Gay-friendly "Social Justice 12" course
• Bountiful and the polygamy trial
• more

February 19, 2009

Christians lobby against trade pact with Colombia
OTTAWA -- Last year, members of a Colombian paramilitary entered Yolanda Becerra Vega's apartment and threatened her at gunpoint.
Maclean's takes note of Christian schools
FOR 18 years, Maclean's magazine has published an annual ranking of Canadian universities that has excluded "religious" institutions. This year, Maclean's has also published results of two independent surveys that included several Christian schools.
OttawaWatch: Bus ads -- reflective and provocative
HAVING NOW received the text of her lecture, I hope to report on and analyze, next week, what former MP Deborah Grey had to say a few days ago at Trinity Western University.
Quick news
• New director for Alpha
• Only Hugh can transform neighbourhoods
• New Toronto bookstore
• more
National print news
• Bountiful and the polygamy trial
• The Dominion Christian Centre's loss of charitable status
• Anti-Semitism
• more

February 26, 2009

Obama visit gets mixed reviews from Christians
OTTAWA -- President Barack Obama's first visit to Canada struck some positive notes on the environment and on trade, say Catholic observers.
Demographics shift at prayer event in St. John's
OVER A thousand people raised the roof last Friday in the historic Basilica of St. John the Baptist in St. John's, Newfoundland/Labrador. It was the opening evening of TheCRY St. John's.
OttawaWatch: Gone fishin'
AS PROMISED, OttawaWatch begins this week with an excerpt from this year's Mel Smith Lecture at Trinity Western University.
Quick news
• The state has a place in the labs of the nation
• The family has a place in the deliberations in Ottawa
• Christians should have a place in Iran
• more
National print news
• The Book of the Dead at the Royal Ontario Museum
• The Handmaid's Tale controversy
• About medical and reproductive ethics
• more

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