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4 years ago @ Network for Church Mon... - The Christian Right co... · 2 replies · +4 points

Perhaps it's unique to North America. We're certainly seeing it in Canada. Saskatchewan had Wall and now Moe, Ontario has Ford, and Alberta under Kenney is a Trumpist victory. And, let's not forget the federal Conservatives under über Catholic Andrew Scheer.

11 years ago @ http://www.themarknews... - The Split Soul of the ... · 0 replies · +1 points

My thinking is that Mr Harper's Canadian Reform Alliance Party aka the Conservative Party of Canada would fall apart were he to allow M312 to pass. He is too smart a tactician to allow that, you're right. But I believe he had to allow it to happen in order to appease that base, to say, hey, we tried.

That said, I and many others across the nation have spent a lot of volunteer time re-engaging a very overtaxed and underfunded women's movement on this issue. It's been a delight to see a once-fragmented and burnt out bunch come to life again. I like to think we caught the right a little off-guard with that.

12 years ago @ http://feministchristi... - My line in the sand · 0 replies · +2 points

Lorne,

If they're calling themselves "progressive" bloggers, then that should mean something. As a woman, I insist that the definition include women's right to reproductive freedom. Anything else is misogyny and intolerable.

12 years ago @ http://feministchristi... - Things I learned this ... · 1 reply · +1 points

I guess you won't be happy to hear that the Mennonite Central Committee also got the axe from CIDA.

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - How do you feel about ... · 2 replies · -1 points

Says something about the Conservatives, doesn't it, when a former Chief of Staff to PM Harper issues a fatwa on national TV, eh? Fatwa Flanagan, a professor infiltrating young minds in Calgary. Glad my kids aren't there!

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - How do you feel about ... · 2 replies · +6 points

A friend summed it up quite nicely. She said, "If the Media in this country and elsewhere did their bloody jobs, we wouldn't need a Wikileaks!"

Robert Shear at Truthdig http://bit.ly/ga5z1s makes a strong point, too. "The real problem with the release of the dispatches, particularly the kind labeled “noforn,” meaning it shouldn’t be shared with foreign governments, is that it is politically embarrassing—which is why we, the public, have a right to view it. That is certainly the case with the revelation that Secretary Clinton destroyed the once-sacred line between the legitimate diplomat deserving of universal protection and the spies that governments could be justified in arresting."

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Holy war · 0 replies · +5 points

Yup, works for me, too! The Christian version thereof.

13 years ago @ Macleans.ca - Parliamentarians of th... · 0 replies · +1 points

How thoroughly and absolutely disgusting that John Baird received this award. It sullies the idea of Parliamentarianism the world over!

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