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Police in the southern African nation of Botswana have smashed a human trafficking ring that sent 1000 victims as far away as Canada. Foreign business consultancies were used as fronts for smuggling slaves across international boundaries. Fourteen people have so far been taken into custody for questioning in Gaborone, Botswana police chief, Assistant Superintendent, Selebatso [...]
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) today condemned the continued detention of Christian blogger Hani Nazeer, who was arrested by State Security last October. His arrest was prompted by complaints from Muslims over material posted at his blog. ANHRI also alleges that the arrest “occurred with the collaboration of the Church in [his [...]
CBC reports that four cases of swine flu have been confirmed in Nova Scotia, all in Windsor, right next to my home of Falmouth. Nova Scotia’s chief public health officer, Dr. Robert Strang, said Sunday the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg confirmed late Saturday that four young people in the province are recovering from “relatively [...]
Bell Mobility cellphone customers in Northwest Territories are charged 75 cents per month for 911 service. The only problem is: Bell does not actually provide 911 service in all areas of the territory. So, understandably, a Yellowknife man, James Anderson, launched a class-action lawsuit in 2007 over the fee for a non-existent service. What’s hard [...]
The City of Winnipeg is contemplating desperate measures to shore up municipal finances. It wants businesses to buy advertisements on trucks driven by pothole-filling crews. Already this year, the city has spent $400,000 filling the holes, twice as much as usual for the spring. The sponsorship proposal calls for company logos or names to be [...]
“I know that my Redeemer liveth.” — Job 19:25 This morning’s recessional hymn on The Second Sunday after Easter at Christ Church, Windsor. Hymn #515 in The Book of Common Praise (1938), official hymn book for the whole of The Church of England in Canada (later Anglican Church of Canada). I know that my Redeemer [...]
The collect for today, The Second Sunday After Easter, from The Book of Common Prayer (Canadian, 1962): Almighty God, who hast given thine only Son to be unto us both a sacrifice for sin, and also an example of godly life; Give us grace that we may always most thankfully receive that his inestimable benefit, [...]
The collect for today, The Feast of Saint Mark the Evangelist, from The Book of Common Prayer (Canadian, 1962): O Almighty God, who hast instructed thy holy Church with the heavenly doctrines of thy Evangelist Saint Mark; Give us grace, that, being not like children carried away with every blast of vain doctrine, we may [...]
Two years ago, Susanne Geske appeared on Turkish television shortly after her husband, Tilmann Geske, was brutally murdered with his friends Necati Aydin and Ugur Yuksel, in Malatya, Turkey. They were killed by Muslim fanatics motivated by anti-Christian animus. She forgave her husband’s killers. She recently spoke about the power of forgiveness at a mission [...]
Victor Malarek has written two books on the global sex trade, one about the supply side—women involved in prostitution—and a just-released volume about the demand side—their customers. He found that booming demand for paid sex has spawned huge increases in sex trafficking and forced prostitution. Men who hire women for sex, he says, would prefer [...]
In an interview published in Macleans, Hossain Ali Ramoz, executive director of Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission, insists that most Afghan Shia Muslims do not support the controversial law obligating a wife to “fulfill the sexual desires of her husband”. Afghanistan’s Shias, most of whom belong to the Hazara ethnic group, are typically among the [...]
The crown and defence have agreed that Angela Kuehl, 27, of Ottawa should be sentenced to one year of house arrest and two years of probation for smothering her newborn infant and hiding his corpse in the trash. The judge did not immediately agree with their recommendation and will render a sentence in August. She [...]
Compare and contrast these two video clips of US Rep. Barney Frank. A few days ago on PBS’s Tavis Smiley Show, he blamed unnamed “conservatives” for mass housing foreclosures in the United States. They “pushed” people into buying houses they couldn’t afford. don’t ya know? He, on the other hand, has advocated affordable rental housing [...]
An Egyptian woman who converted from Islam to Christianity has been arrested for marrying a Christian man, even though that is not illegal under Egypt’s penal code. (It is, however, illegal under sharia law.) What’s more, the police carried out the arrest even though they don’t have a copy of the marriage contract. Christian convert [...]
As widely expected when Newfoundland and Labrador suddenly stole expropriated almost all of AbitibiBowater’s assets in the province, the natural resource multinational has launched a challenge under the North American Free Trade Agreement. Premier Danny Williams expropriated AbitibiBowater’s (TSX:ABH) resource rights and assets in central Newfoundland as a punitive measure for the company’s decision to [...]
