In 2005 and 2006, Nova Scotia’s judiciary set out guidelines for accreditation of media seeking access to many provincial courts.  At a recent conference on “A Free Press and an Independent Judiciary” held in Halifax, journalists, lawyers, and journalism professors roundly denounced the concept and process of media accreditation.
Dean Jobb, Assistant Professor of Journalism, University [...]

Authorities in the Malaysian state of Pahang are so upset by “slanderous comments” on the internet that the government has hired three pensioners to write respectful blog posts.
The Pahang Government has appointed three pensioners as bloggers to thwart slanderous comments and allegations posted on the Internet.
State Information, Science, Technology and Innovation Committee chairman Datuk Mohd [...]

MP Keith Martin (Lib – Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca) has introduced two private member’s motions to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and rein in the increasingly obnoxious Canadian Human Rights Commission. These latest motions replace and expand motion M-446, which Dr Martin introduced in the previous Parliament.
Ezra Levant has more information.
Here’s the exact wording [...]

This hymn was sing during Morning Prayer at Christ Church, Windsor, while a special collection was taken for the work of the Council of the North. We sang all six of John Newton’s original verses as well as the later additional verse from an unknown hand.
Amazing grace! How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch [...]

The collect for today, the Sunday next before Advent, also known as the Feast of Christ the King, from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer:
Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people; that they, plenteously bringing forth the fruit of good works, may of thee be plenteously rewarded; through Jesus [...]