In 2002-2004, almost 5 million Venezuelans signed one or more in a series of three petitions calling for an election to remove President Hugo Chavez from office. After Chavez survived the recall vote of August 2004, the names of those who had signed the final petition were compiled into a database using software called [...]

Edward G. Hollett has the details.
Effective March 1, 2009, Warren Kinsella is a registered lobbyist with the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador as part of a nation-wide effect to spark up some kind of law suit against Big Tobacco.
Danny Williams must be desperate.

So much for that “Islamic solidarity” stuff.
Tehran has canceled the Islamic Solidarity Games after Saudi Arabia asked Iran to remove the term Persian Gulf from game medals and brochures.
The Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation (ISSF) Secretary General Saleh Gazdar and Technical Committee Chairman Mohammad Bashir Al-Trabosli said in a Tehran meeting that Arab states would only [...]

Scott Brison (at right), Liberal MP for Kings-Hants, has sent out a pamphlet with a few questions for the voters.   At least, that’s what I’m told.   He’s my MP, but I haven’t received one yet.
Why do I have to find out about this from Kitchener-Waterloo resident Steve Janke?
Scott Brison has sent out a ten-percenter. [...]

Brian McConaghy is head of the Ratanak Foundation, a Christian Canadian organisation fighting sex trafficking of little girls in Cambodia. He recently spoke at an anti-human trafficking conference in Toronto. I was very moved by his speech, which is posted at Aim4Asia. Here is a snippet.
In the late 18th early 19th century [...]

Atlantic Baptist University, the only English-language university in Moncton, New Brunswick, has been the subject of a long-running debate in the pages of the Moncton Times & Transcript. ABU has been accused of violating Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the provincial Human Rights Act because it refuses to hire homosexuals.
In his latest [...]