We have a few bits and pieces, this week, which should be filed under “co-operative works in progress” – keep an eye on them. * * * A bill respecting the manufacturing of crystal meth, sponsored in the House of Commons by John Weston (Conservative, West Vancouver/Sunshine Coast/Sea-to-Sky Country), very quickly passed second reading in […]
Federal government looking at combating human trafficking
Human trafficking will be on the agenda as Members of Parliament return to Ottawa after a summer break. That deeply pleases a Conservative MP who has worked for nearly a decade to raise awareness of this growing problem. “When I first started, people didn’t know about human trafficking, it was under the public radar screen,” […]
Cardus and rodeo sensibilities
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty caused some excitement among the political chattering classes, Tuesday, with a speech to the Ottawa Canadian Club suggesting that a three-party Lib-NDP-Bloc coalition would cost Canada 400,000 jobs. Your humble scribe ignored all that, meanwhile, choosing to head for Hamilton, where the Christian-linked think tank, Cardus, was marking 10 years. Preston […]
Canada’s connection to 420 million
There was a Canadian in the mix, last week, as a string of Christian and political luminaries eventually persuaded Terry Jones, a Florida pastor, not to burn 200 copies of the Qur’an, on September 11. Geoff Tunnicliffe, the CEO and secretary-general of the 420 million strong World Evangelical Fellowship (WEA), talked to Jones by phone […]
OttawaWatch: A matter of trust
Stephen M. R. Covey, who comes from one of my favourite Mormon families, was featured on the front page of the Ottawa Citizen on September 5. The story was entitled: ‘Erosion of trust costing country billions: author.’ The subhead read: ‘High cost of low trust like a wasted tax.’ The nub of the piece was […]
The good news was buried
It was a good news Christmas-like story which, while incomplete at this point, showed promise of a renewed relationship between Kairos, a faith-based, multi-denominational advocacy group and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). But the story was buried in the 11th paragraph of a story in the December 16 Guelph Mercury. The back story is […]
Truth, reconciliation and forgiveness
Two recent events, within days of each other — and both with strong religious undercurrents — appeared to have advanced reconciliation between First Nations people in Canada and the non-aboriginal community. Both events were part of the continuing outcome of the apology for the federal government’s role in the residential school tragedy. The apology was […]
Evangelical voters turning from Liberals to Conservatives, NDP: study
Evangelical voters have been turning away from the Liberal party in droves over the past dozen years, with about two-thirds of the former Liberal voters turning to conservative parties and one-third turning to the New Democrats, according to a research paper published by the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC). The paper, entitled ‘Canadian Evangelical Voting […]
OttawaWatch: Courting evangelicals
Press gallery colleague Brian Lilley, who provides Parliament Hill news and analysis to the influential CFRB group of radio stations across Canada, has a most interesting blog post, this week. In it, he reveals that Toronto-area Liberal MP John McKay has been designated by his leader, Michael Ignatieff, to help the party reach out to […]
Back and forth: OttawaWatch
A small but interesting item appeared in both Maclean’s and the Toronto Star in the past few days. It concerned the move of Kevin Chan, the executive assistant to Privy Council Clerk Kevin Lynch, to a senior advisor post for Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff. Lynch is, of course, the main link between the prime minister’s […]
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