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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. [...]
Prince Edward Island communities are receiving information about setting up wind turbines to produce electricity for making ice at local skating rinks. The projects were made more viable last month by the introduction of a net-metering program, essentially allowing electricity meters to run backward when the wind turbine is creating more energy than the rink [...]
Political “progressives” may want to re-think their beloved post-modern notion of “human rights”. Several British companies are invoking human rights to claim they were unfairly deprived of profits and competitive advantage. I may have said that the precious quality at the heart of human rights principles is that they apply equally to everyone. But when [...]
Islamist militants are taking control of the Swat Valley, North West Frontier Province (NWFP), Pakistan. Some 200,000 of the region’s 1.8 million residents have reportedly fled for safety. From an IRIN (Integrated Regional Information Networks) report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: “We see terrible events here every day. The central [...]
Faith Lutheran Church, Kelowna, expelled seven members in September 2007 in a dispute over same-sex blessings and other issues. Four of them went to court alleging that church rules had been broken and that they had been treated unfairly. A BC judge has found in favour of the expelled members and ordered their reinstatement. The [...]
Europhile Conservative MP Ken Clarke was only this month elevated to the Shadow Cabinet, but already a major rift has emerged between him and party leader David Cameron. Mr Cameron has pledged to introduce pro-marriage tax reforms, but Mr Clarke dismisses that as “social engineering”. “My view of Conservatism is that it’s not for us [...]
The judge presiding in the case of Martha Samuel Makkar, an Egyptian who sued for official recognition of her conversion from Islam to Christianity, stated that he wanted to kill her, according to her lawyer. Attorney Nadia Tawfiq said Judge Abdelaa Hashem questioned Makkar extensively about her Christian faith during the hearing. Makkar, charged with [...]
Everyone’s favourite branch of the federal government, Canada Revenue Agency, has uploaded to YouTube videos in both official languages advertising their video production contest. That’s right: The CRA brains trust has made videos asking Canadians to make videos about the badness of the underground economy and how it threatens our way of government life. People [...]
Two million fewer pints of beer sold every day as pubs suffer in recession — London Telegraph, 27 Jan.
ChinaAid reports that the wife of a Chinese house church leader sentenced to prison camp last month has filed a motion to dismiss the chief justice of a district court for refusing to consider her husband’s administrative lawsuit. The motion claims that the court committed three legal errors in its handling of the case. Tong [...]
The collect for today, the Feast of St John Chrysostom (347-407), Preacher, Doctor of the Church, Archbishop of Constantinople (source): O God, who didst give to thy servant John Chrysostom grace eloquently to proclaim thy righteousness in the great congregation, and fearlessly to bear reproach for the honor of thy Name: Mercifully grant to all [...]
Saint Gabriel Syriac-Orthodox Monastery, located in Tur Abdin, south-east Turkey, is the oldest functioning Christian monastery in the world. It was founded in 397, but its survival is now imperilled by a series of lawsuits launched by Muslim neighbours who are seeking to have the monastery closed or deprived of its land. [T]he future of [...]
The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia has ordered the province’s Human Rights Commission (HRC) to reverse its decision to appoint a board of inquiry to adjudicate allegations that French public schools were unfairly deprived of funding. The Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission does not have the jurisdiction to look into the complaint of an Acadian [...]
A report in today’s The Times of London indicates that the Chinese government wants to find a way to live with the officially illegal house church movement. A secret meeting between Chinese officials and leaders of the banned underground Protestant Church has marked the first significant step towards reconciliation in decades. The discussions, which were [...]
The National Post reports today that it has seen evidence that payouts to residential school survivors have contributed to social pathologies, including suicide, depression, and alcohol and drug abuse. The “Common Experience Payment” (CEP), which began in the fall of 2007, was intended to compensate aboriginals who were taken away from their communities to attend [...]
