BigCityLib Strikes Back: Harper Brings Down The Hammer On Another Faith-Based...
From Gruending: The hammer that had earlier landed on faith-based organizations such as KAIROS and the Mennonite Central Committee has now fallen on the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development...
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: Dennis Gruending On The Sale Of The Saskatchewan...
Farmers fought long and hard to create the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool in 1924, but 88 years later the company, now known as Viterra, is being sold to a Swiss-based multinational called Glencore for $6.1...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. - Alison nicely debunks the Cons’ latest Robocon talking points. Paula Boutis offers her own suggestions to strengthen Elections Canada in investigating vote...
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: Gruending On Chaplains In Prisons
If the changes introduced by Minister Toews are not really about cutting costs, then what is going on? The best analysis that I have seen is from Stephen Maher for Postmedia News. “Toew’s decision,” he...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to end your Saturday. - Jim Stanford looks in detail at the aftereffects of free trade with the U.S., and finds rather little to cheer: In sum, the promise that free trade would...
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: Dennis Gruending On The Oppression Of Canadian...
Quite a bit more detail here than in the CBC piece. The most interesting bit, though, is not even about the magazine per se. Its about the financial costs associated with running afoul of the...
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: Gruending On Remembrance Day
One might be tempted to consign T.T. Shields and his demagoguery to the past but it is not so different from a recent program that I saw on CTS Television. Preacher Jack Van Impe was fulminating about...
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: Catholic Bishops Cave To Tories!
A couple of posts by Gruending give the best run-down of a story I've been following out of the corner of my eye for awhile now: the suspension of Development's And Peace's fall post card campaign...
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: Gruending On John Baird’s Office of Religious Freedom
In fact, the plan is modeled on the Office of International Religious Freedom which was created by the Clinton administration in the United States in 1998. A common criticism is that the American...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week. - Dennis Gruending writes about the importance of Edgar Schmidt’s whistleblowing against unconstitutional legislation: Schmidt says that he has over a period of...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. - Shawn McCarthy discusses the Cons’ latest plan to sell Keystone XL to the U.S. – which involves hoping that the best-resourced government on the planet will...
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: Gruending On The Manning Center Confab
Preston Manning and his wife Sandra created the Manning Centre in 2005 to act as a training ground for conservative politicos and a think tank and advocacy arm for conservative causes. Each year...
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: Gruending On The New Pope
How deep was he in with the Argentine generals? Actually, its kind of hard to say. But he hates communists, that’s for damn sure.
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Canadian Catholic Church, Then And Now
From Dennis Gruending on the 30th anniversary of the Canada’s Catholic bishops’ report Ethical Reflections on the Economic Crisis:“We are losing the tension between the church and the state in Canada....
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. - Linda McQuaig discusses Stephen Harper’s class war: Canadians don’t like Harper’s anti-worker agenda — when they notice it. That’s why there’s been...
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: Gruending On Liberal Christians In Canada
What about Canada? The historical influence of liberal Protestantism is undeniable. The social gospel movement drove political change from the 1930s to at least the 1960s. People such as J. S....
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: Gruending On The Quebec Charter Of Values
Nothing you haven’t heard before, but nicely written as always: And so, we are left with the odd spectacle of the Parti Quebecois, which has always claimed to be progressive and socially democratic,...
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: Gruending: Our Prime Minister Is A Christian Zionist
Dennis Gruending discusses the PM’s trip to Israel, with an account of some of the folks in his entourage that contains information I was not aware of. A brief flavor: Finally, there was the...
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Ukrainian Far Right: Gruending On Ukraine
Dennis Gruending has a piece on some of the propaganda being employed by both sides in the standoff over Ukraine. I found this bit particularly interesting: … the Russians suspect, with some...
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: Things That Have Gone Wrong With The Arab Spring
Dennis Gruending covers a talk by Nahlah Ayed, London-based foreign correspondent for CBC Television. These things that have gone wrong are many, and not terribly surprising if you were paying a...
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