On March 26, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled that some of Canada’s prostitution laws are unconstitutional. Prostitution is legal in Canada – the appeals court noted that there is “no law that prohibits a person from selling sex, and no law that prohibits another from buying it.” However, The Criminal Code of Canada prohibits […]
March News Roundup
Don’t Cross the Government The European Court of Human Rights will try a case later this year over whether Christians in the United Kingdom have the religious right to wear a cross or crucifix openly at work. According to the Toronto Star, the case brings together four separate cases, including that of Nadia Eweida, who was suspended […]
Sexual abuse on the prairie
“We believe there are some bad things that have happened,” says Prairie Bible Institute’s www.prairie.edu president, Mark Maxwell. He adds that he has personally heard “half a dozen stories that seem to ring true.” Maxwell is referring to allegations of sexual abuse connected to Prairie, a Christian Bible school founded in Three Hills, Alberta, 90 […]
Islamist group targets Christians, churches in Nigeria
At least 10 people were reported killed on Sunday, March 12 after suicide bombers detonated a car bomb at the gates of St. Finbar’s Roman Catholic Church in Jos, Nigeria. The attack is thought to be the work of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram and is just the latest in a series of attacks […]
Christian university on the ball
Trinity Western University Spartans defeated Laval University on March 4, 2012 to win the Canadian University Sport (CIS) national volleyball championship. It was the third national men’s volleyball championship for the Spartans, who joined CIS in 1999-2000. They previously won in 2011 and 2006. The Spartans placed three players on the CIS all-star team, including […]
A Christian social conscience
Two events were held February 17-18 in Toronto to honour the work of Christian social activist Gerald Vandezande. The first event was a memorial on Friday evening at First Christian Reformed Church. The second was a series of workshops the next morning at Wycliffe College discussing the issues Vandezande cared about. Born in the Netherland […]
“I complain in the strongest possible terms”
Mark Thompson, director-general of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), has admitted in an interview that broadcasters treat Christianity with far less sensitivity than other religions. He said that Christianity is “an established part of our cultural-built landscape” and is “pretty broad shouldered,” while other faiths have a “very close identity with ethnic minorities” and criticism […]
Movies promote Christian books
Movies helped place four Christian books on the New York Times best seller list in February. The Vow, Kim and Krickitt Carpenter’s true story of faith and commitment, topped the New York Times non-fiction best-seller list in its first week of re-release. The Vow joins three other film-related, faith-based books as national best sellers. The […]
Selective acceptance
Fifteen hundred students from 10 British Columbia schools (and one from New York) were featured in a YouTube video dancing in pink shirts to the Lady Gaga song “Born This Way.” The video was intended to promote the anti-bullying Pink Shirt Day February 29. The video went ahead despite objections by a group called Burnaby […]
The Vault
I have been reading murder mysteries for more than 30 years and have encountered many writers, both good and bad. One of the best is Ruth Rendell, who began writing a series of straightforward, but very good murder mysteries featuring English police detective Reginald Wexford in 1964. Later, at first under the name Barbara Vine, […]
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