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Archive for May 24th, 2009

NDP proposes more talking to combat disease

May 24th, 2009 | Comments Off

The Nova Scotia NDP offers another amazingly innocuous ingenious plan to improve health care if it wins the provincial election on 9 June. To reduce chronic disease rates, it will set up two ongoing gabfests—a council and a task force—and it will “work closely” with medical professionals. The sheer genius of NDP leader Darrell Dexter [...]

Honour crimes are “sordid criminal behaviour”: UK judge

May 24th, 2009 | 1 Comment

A British judge went out of his way to denounce “honour” crimes in a case involving three children of Pakistani descent being cared for by a non-Muslim family. The children’s mother is in prison for setting her sister-in-law’s house on fire in a dispute involving alleged violations of family honour. The father was refused care [...]

More honour killings in Europe than previously believed

May 24th, 2009 | 1 Comment

A report prepared by the Council of Europe reveals that murders of women by family members are more prevalent than previously thought.  The report was discussed at a meeting in Istanbul. The draft report calls for immediate action to deal with what it describes as the growing problem of honor killings. British member of parliament [...]

Malaysian Catholics insist on right to call God “Allah”

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The Malaysian government has forbidden Christians from referring to God as “Allah”, even though the word “Allah” means exactly that in the national language. The Roman Catholic church has gone to court to decide the issue. Muslim leaders insist that “Allah” must be restricted for usage in Islam, else “young or unsuspecting Muslims” might get [...]

Apologies to my correspondents

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My gmail account was hacked yesterday at 12:22 PM (Atlantic time), and a spam e-mail was sent from my address to every e-mail address ever entered at the account. The e-mail advertised the services of a Chinese company that I’ve never heard of. I apologise to everyone who received that e-mail. According to gmail’s activity [...]

Sunday Hymn: “O Christ, thou hast ascended”

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“Set your affection on things above.” – Colossians 3:2 This morning’s recessional hymn on The Sunday after Ascension Day at Christ Church, Windsor. Hymn #178 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). O Christ, thou hast ascended [...]

Sunday After Ascension Day

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The collect for today, Sunday After Ascension Day, from The Book of Common Prayer (Canadian, 1962): O God, the King of glory, who hast exalted thine only Son Jesus Christ with great triumph unto thy kingdom in heaven; We beseech thee, leave us not comfortless; but send to us thine Holy Ghost to comfort us, [...]