A Swedish Liberal Party working group has proposed ending the policy of allowing students to study mathematics in Arabic, and the Green Party hits the roof.
“We are very skeptical toward the experiment taking place around Sweden right now, with maths being taught in Arabic. The risk is that it will worsen students’ development of Swedish [...]

Stephan Hachemi has initiated a civil lawsuit before the Quebec High Court against the government of Iran in the death of his mother, photojournalist Zahra Kazemi. While visiting Tehran in June 2003, Ms Kazemi, who held dual Canadian and Iranian citizenship, was arrested, beaten, and died in custody. Despite repeated assurances by Iranian [...]

Some Christian leaders in the United States claim that attacks on supporters of traditional heterosexual marriage reflect general persecution of Christianity in America. Doug Bandow, former Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, thinks not.  Many Americans are clearly antagonistic to Christians but, on the other hand, the current and former presidents both profess to [...]

The collect for today, The Presentation of Christ in the Temple, commonly called The Purification of Saint Mary the Virgin, from the 1962 Canadian Book of Common Prayer:
Almighty and everliving God, we humbly beseech thy Majesty, that, as thy only-begotten Son was this day presented in the temple in substance of our flesh, so we [...]