Thu Mar 31, 2005 – 9:55 pm
If anyone has any doubt whatsoever about the status of religious freedoms in Canada, then it is time to take a good hard look at the recent experience of Bishop Fred Henry of Calgary.
Thu Mar 31, 2005 – 2:25 pm
Joe Knippenberg has an interesting analysis of Britain’s Tony Blair’s approach to religion and politics. We’ve taken note of this as well. While Blair shares Bush’s (and Clinton’s) use of religion to gain the center of the political landscape, Knippenberg notices a fundamental difference between Blair and especially Bush:
While Bush, for example, […]
Wed Mar 30, 2005 – 5:08 pm
According to the Economist magazine, Canada is a great place to do business.
Canada drops to second in Economist ranking of best business countries
LONDON (CP) - Economic upstart Denmark has bumped Canada from its lofty perch atop a prestigious European ranking of the best places in the world to do business.
The ranking, conducted every five […]
Wed Mar 30, 2005 – 3:59 pm
James Turner Johnson, one of the preeminent just war theorists of our time, reviews Michael Ignatieff’s book, The Lesser Evil. Recall Ignatieff is being touted as possible leadership material for the Liberal Party of Canada.
Johnson does a masterful job slicing and dicing Ignatieff’s arguments. He focuses on Ignatieff’s deficient category of “lesser evil,” […]
Wed Mar 30, 2005 – 3:23 pm
Calgary Roman Catholic Bishop Fred Henry has had a human rights complaint waged against him by EGALE for writing these words in a pastoral letter:
Since homosexuality, adultery, prostitution and pornography undermine the foundations of the family, the basis of society, then the State must use its coercive power to proscribe or curtail them in the […]
Wed Mar 30, 2005 – 9:18 am
The left’s urge to see Terry Shiavo starved to death is due, in part, to its Grand Inquisitor-like compassion that seeks to relieve people of their suffering. One of the reasons this is so compelling to so many people is the horror we feel at the thought of being utterly incapacitated (and here). […]
Tue Mar 29, 2005 – 7:28 pm
Todays’ NY Times has an intriguing story about a Colorado jury’s decision to impose the death penalty on a murderer that the courts overturned. The higher courts overturned the conviction because the jury relied on the Bible to draw its conclusion. A straightforward application of the First Amendment’s prohibition of establishment?
Not so fast.
The […]
Tue Mar 29, 2005 – 2:12 pm
Evidence for the One Liberal Party Campus continues. Stanley Rothman, Neil Nevitte, and Robert Lichter have produced a study, using data from the 1999 data from the North American Academic Study Survey, demonstrate not only liberal dominance, but more dominance now than 20 years ago:
Rothman, Lichter and Nevitte find a leftward shift on […]
Tue Mar 29, 2005 – 1:50 pm
Stories recently published in The Red Deer Advocate and the Alberta CBC web site have placed significant emphasis on the low number of votes in the last Alberta senatorial election. The Advocate, through one of their interviewees, tries to paint a scenario in which Senate reform is primarily a right wing issue:
In terms of the […]
Mon Mar 28, 2005 – 9:21 am
It looks like Terri’s saga will soon be drawing to a close, as her parents have now given up hope. There are, however, two points in this story that I feel need closer attention.
The first came to my attention from Licia Corbella of the Calgary Sun. Corbella notes:
Technically, [Michael Schiavo] is still married to the […]
