Reading Time: 6 minutes When American university and college students try to deny “free speech” platforms to arch-conservative opinion leaders they consider dangerous purveyors of bigotry, or just shout them down, right-wing complaints of suppression are swift and virulent. The constant trope is that American higher education institutions are controlled by “woke,” “liberal” academics and students who want to […]
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Canada’s government rejects motion to end daily prayer in House of Commons
Reading Time: 5 minutes An attempt to get rid of the ritualistic prayer that opens up House of Commons sessions in Canada’s Parliament was voted down yesterday despite strong arguments against the tradition. The history of the House of Commons prayer The 30-second prayer that opens up those sessions has been around since 1877. It was only minimally modified […]
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How God was wedged into secular Canada’s constitution
Reading Time: 4 minutes A new poll has some Canadians looking askance at their own constitution. Canada has a long, conflicted relationship between God and country. Like our neighbor to the south, our government is ostensibly secular, our history is rooted in religion, and our people are at the moment rapidly turning away from the church. Recent polling shows […]
Posted inWar and Peace
Breaking down Western myths of peace
Reading Time: 7 minutes I’ll never forget my confusion, as a Canadian in Colombia in 2018, when I first visited Museo Casa de la Memoria. In Medellín’s “memory house”, a video explained that Colombia had more history with peace than any other country. I’d been raised to believe in Canada’s strong commitment to “peace, order, and good government.” Surely […]
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Why are Canadian trucker protesters raising money on a Christian fundraising site?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Canadian truckers protesting vaccine mandates have paralyzed Ottawa, blocking streets throughout the Canadian capital and setting up tents and other rough shelters. The truckers have also blocked key US border crossings across states such as Michigan and Montana. The truckers share a number of characteristics with right-wing populists in the United States: they are furious […]
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Plague rat pastor claims court ordered him to lie about Covid-19
Reading Time: 3 minutes ANTI-VAXXER Artur Pawlowski, above, a pastor who has had several run-ins with Canadian authorities for violating ongoing coronavirus restrictions, was ordered to pay “crippling fines” and surrender his” free speech rights” as part of a probation agreement to avoid jail time. Christian Post reports that during his sentencing hearing this week for persistently violating court […]
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After Decades in a Cult-like Church, This Couple is Finally Enjoying Freedom
Reading Time: 3 minutes Breanna and Peter Phipps are ready to help others leave their religious bubbles.
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Priest resigns after saying ‘good was done’ at Indigenous schools
Reading Time: 4 minutes IN the midst of anger over the discovery of 215 bodies discovered at the Kamloops residential school run by the Catholic Church in Canada, Monsignor Owen Keenan, above, had the gall to to claim that people were ignoring the ‘good’ done at these ghastly institutions. According to The Toronto Star, after his gross insensitivity was […]
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Bodies of 751 people found in graves at a Canadian Catholic school
Reading Time: 3 minutes JUST weeks after the remains of 215 children were found in a mass grave at the Kamloops school in British Columbia, other graves containing 751 bodies have been discovered at the site of the Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan run by the Roman Catholic Church from 1899 to 1997. The Cowessess First Nation said […]
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Is the Church of God Restoration a Cult? The Warning Signs Are All Too Clear.
Reading Time: 6 minutes If this isn’t a cult, then I don’t know what is.