Archive for March 12th, 2009
March 12th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Sixteen Prince Edward Islanders have joined the class action suit against Maple Leaf Foods, even though the provincial health department recorded no listeriosis cases. Tony Merchant, of Merchant Law Group in Saskatoon, is the lead lawyer for one of the class actions. He has 16 claims from P.E.I. amongst the 4,200 signed on to his [...]
Tags: Chutzpah, Prince Edward Island
Posted in Canada, Law Crime and Legal Issues | 1 Comment »
Islamic governments typically compel Christians and Jews to accept dhimmitude, a set of legal and social disadvantages intended to enforce subjugation and humiliation. Now supporters of Hindutva (Hindu nationalism; literally, “Hinduness”) in Orissa state, India, are inflicting similar conditions on Christians, despite the fact that India is officially a secular and democratic state. Orissa’s Archbishop [...]
Tags: Dhimmitude, Hinduism, India, Orissa, Persecution
Posted in Asia-Pacific, Christianity, Religious Liberty/Persecution | 7 Comments »
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Where have we seen this before recently? A speech by conservative writer Don Feder was disrupted by loud-mouthed “anti-hate” activists at the University of Massachusetts. His scheduled topic was hate crime legislation (he’s against it); but when obstreperous protestors entered the room, he took ‘em on. Feder sternly redressed the crowd in his opening statement. [...]
Tags: Civil liberties, Don Feder, Education, Political correctness, Thuggery
Posted in United States, Worldview Issues | Comments Off
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In response to an estimated annual loss of $12 million in beer sales to Quebec, Alcool New Brunswick Liquor (ANBL) floated the monumentally bad idea of marketing its own cut-price brand of beer. Proving that no scheme is too foolish for government to implement, socialised suds hit ANBL shelves today. I thought Guv’mint Swill™ would [...]
Tags: Beer and wine, Folly, Government finance, New Brunswick, Quebec
Posted in Canada, Canadian Politics and Government, Economics | Comments Off
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As an example of a wealthy celebrity prone to bizarre outbursts, consider Sir Bono. Perhaps the best-known, and certainly the loudest among them, is U2′s Bono. His efforts have won him an honorary British knighthood, no fewer than three Nobel Prize nominations and the adulation of Tony Blair. Yet one of Bono’s most significant outbursts [...]
Tags: Bono, Dambisa Moyo, Development economics, Foreign aid, Poverty
Posted in Africa, Economics, Popular Culture | Comments Off
Terry Chenier of Mission, BC, works for Keller Williams Realty and maintains an active blog at activerain.com, a website and blog centre for real estate specialists. Most of the blogger-realtors blog about real estate issues, but Mr Chenier’s interests are more catholic. Here’s what he has to say about the polygamy controversy at Bountiful. Bountiful, [...]
Tags: Bountiful, Polygamy, Terry Chenier, Winston Blackmore
Posted in Canada, Canadian Politics and Government, Life Issues | 2 Comments »
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A house church pastor in China remains in jail despite a court decision that the evidence against him is insufficient. ChinaAid just learned that Pastor Lou Yuanqi of Uygur Autonomous Region received a verdict of insufficient evidence and his case was sent back to the Public Security Bureau (PSB) by the prosecutor. The court indicated [...]
Tags: China, Persecution
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March 12th, 2009 | 1 Comment
For the second time in a week, a Coptic Christian man has been murdered in Egypt over rumours of illicit involvement with a Muslim woman. The man’s body was found floating in the Nile. He had been abducted and tortured for nine days before being killed. Police Investigations confirmed that the victim was lured to [...]
Tags: Coptic Church, Egypt
Posted in Africa, Christianity, Islam, Religious Liberty/Persecution | 1 Comment »