Didn’t Stephen Harper used to be a conservative?
The Harper government wants to set up a $3 billion “stimulus” slush fund, which the prime minister defends by quoting John Maynard Keynes.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper agreed there are some long-term risks associated with the stimulus package — but he cited a famous economist to argue that the [...]

Last June, the Cambridgeshire Constabulary set up a helpline for issues related to honour-based violence and forced marriage. An average of 30 calls per month have been received, resulting in 61 investigations.
Chief Constable Julie Spence gives a few examples of calls to the hotline:

contact from women as young as 14 fearful of being [...]

Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Karim Masimov last month launched his personal blog and ordered his ministers to do likewise. However, the PM seems to have some issues with a common blog feature— comments.
Since the launch, his blog has received thousands of comments, many of them critical of the government. So far so good.
But the [...]

The Madagascan Christian Council of churches has given up its attempt to mediate an agreement in the political conflict between President Marc Ravalomanana and opposition leader Andry Rajoelina. Three days of meetings produced no progress and the two sides are deadlocked, said Catholic Archbishop Odon Razanakolona.
Immediately following that announcement, Mr Rajoelina’s supporters resumed street [...]

Ofsted, the British government’s education watchdog, has made an astonishing discovery.
Back to basics discipline in school would curb bad behaviour
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Traditional rules such as banning children with shaven heads and those wearing designer trainers or gang colours have proved effective in maintaining order at the best comprehensives, according to a report by Ofsted.
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The report examined how [...]

Immediately after his inauguration, President Barack Obama appealed to the Muslim world to “initiate a new partnership” with the United States “based on mutual respect and mutual interest”.
So, how’s that going so far?  Not well, as Charles Colson points out.
Egyptians were wildly supportive of Obama’s victory, seeing him as a symbol of justice.
But then came [...]

Recent Muslim attacks on Christians in Bauchi State, Nigeria, killed 14 people and forced 4500 to flee their homes. The state government waited five days before offering relief materials to internally displaced persons. That aid has now been refused and refugees are demanding that the governor pay them a personal visit.
Lamenting bitterly, the [...]

Cartoon: Bruce MacKinnon, Halifax Chronicle-Herald

The Anglican theologian and scholar E.B. Pusey wrote this prayer for Lent:
God, give us grace, this coming Lent, so to lay to heart our ways, that we may weary of all which is not His, from Him, to Him: and may, through Him, the Living Way, by new love and obedience, attain to Him, Who, [...]