Stéphane Leman-Langlois, a criminology professor at the Université de Montréal, has published an article in the journal Criminologie analysing the estimated 116 incidents of religion-based terrorism in Canada since 1975.
So, which religious group has committed the most acts of terror? You’ll be surprised.
The Doukhobors are an orthodox Christian sect from Saskatchewan and British-Columbia who [...]

The government of Morocco has forbidden unIslamic names for children born to Moroccans living in the Netherlands. Specifically, Berber names may not be used because they are said to conflict with Islamic identity.
By far the biggest group of Moroccans in the Netherlands are of Berber origin, a region in the mountainous north of Morocco. [...]

Police attacked a restaurant run by six Christian brothers in Port Sa’id, Egypt, because it was open during Ramadan. The brothers have now been sentenced to three years in jail for resisting arrest and assaulting authorities.
Last September, 13 police officers raided the café in Port Sa’id, a city in Egypt’s Nile delta, overturning tables, [...]

A UCLA psychology professor has linked deteriorating critical thinking skills with advancing technology. She tries to put a positive spin on her findings by arguing that technology has boosted visual skills, but I think wise people would generally view that as small compensation for an important loss.
As technology has played a bigger role in [...]

Nunavut Premier Eva Aariak has removed the justice portfolio from MLA Louis Tapardjuk because he wrote this in an e-mail to his staff:
“Often, in cases of domestic disputes, both parties share the blame but, according to the Criminal Code, the person who gets physical is charged, even though the other party initiated the conflict,” Tapardjuk [...]

The Canadian Auto Workers Union has given $20,000 to a homosexual rights group.
In a generous expression of its continued commitment to issues of equality and social justice, the staff from the Canadian Auto Workers Union has donated $20,000 to PFLAG Canada. PFLAG Canada supports diversity initiatives in schools and the workplace by providing education and [...]

Dr J. Scott Armstrong, Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and an internationally recognised expert in forecasting methods and models, released a statement outlining eight reasons why the forecasting model used by the International Panel on Climate Change is unreliable.
1. No scientific forecasts of the changes in the Earth’s climate.
2. Improper [...]