Guest Column

Ontario Legislature Shoots Down Proposal by “Catholic” Premier to Scrap Lord’s Prayer

By Tim Waggoner and Steve Jalsevac, Lifesitenews.com Despite intense lobbying efforts by Ontario's premier, the Ontario legislature has voted by an overwhelming 58-0 in favour of keeping its daily reading of the Lord's Prayer.

Ozone Technology Designed As a Solution to Prevent Salmonella Outbreaks

Aquentium, Inc. announced today that the company's ozone technology is designed as a solution to prevent salmonella outbreaks. The Aquentium line of ozone equipment provides a natural, non-chemical process for food processing.

French youths clash with police

Lille - Dozens of French youths clashed with police in a town in northeast France overnight, burning cars during a rampage triggered by the killing of a 22-year-old man, an official said on Sunday.

Barack Obama throws a billion Muslims under the bus

JihadWatch.com As noted here yesterday, Barack Obama's half-brother Malik says that the candidate has a "Muslim background."

Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir proves Dubai Does not run the show

Islamabad - Renowned Geo anchor Hamid Mir once again moved his famous show “Capital Talk” to the road here on Friday after the programme was stopped from being aired by Dubai authorities under pressure from the presidency. Instead of watching the show on TV at home, a huge crowd watched it on the street as people thronged the Parade Ground, the final destination of the long march. As it happens, the Geo office is just a few yards away from the Parade Ground.

Obama-Sebelius ‘08

I have reason to believe Barack Obama will pick a woman to be his running mate. It just won’t be Hillary Clinton.

The residential school money pit

By Don Sandberg, Aboriginal Policy Fellow, Frontier Centre for Public Policy The residential school years were, without doubt, a terrible experience for some native students. One can only imagine the torment of being unable to escape one’s abusers. Today many still suffer the effects of being molested by those who preached right and wrong. But not all students suffered; some gained much by being able to attend these institutions.

Parks Suspicious of Gov. Patrick “Initiative”

With the news of Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick's $1 billion initiative to "woo" biotech businesses to The Bay State, not all are blindly cheering.

Israel’s ambassador says Britain has become a hotbed of radical anti-Israeli feeling

By Martin Beckford, The Telegraph Britain has become a hotbed of radical anti-Israeli views, according to the country's envoy to London.

Islamic Textbook Teaches It’s OK to Kill

CBNNews.com - A federal investigation released Wednesday reveals that some Islamic textbooks are teaching kids it's okay to kill adulterers and converts from Islam.

Detentions Escalate at China Quake Site

PEN expressed alarm today over the disappearance of leading cyber-dissident Huang Qi, who was last seen being forced into a car by three unidentified men in Chengdu on the evening of June 10. His detention comes amid an escalated effort by the Chinese government to establish tighter controls over reporting from earthquake-affected areas.

Canada Free Press Columnist, Yomin Postelnik, Attacked by Atheist Group

A South Florida columnist who recently wrote a column in Canada Free Press titled, “Logical Proof of the Existence of a Divine Creator, Why Atheism is Not Logically Sound,” has received over 200 emails from militant atheists and has found himself the target of numerous forum posts and harassing phone calls. Ask if he’d do it again, Yomin Postelnik says, “it’s a shame that people react in the way they do but, yes.”

Canadian Television Fund: A Convenient Deception

What is this Canadian Television Fund (CTF)? Well, it is a prime example of crony capitalism, a public policy which was deliberately designed to be inefficient in order to unjustly enrich influential corporations.

Irish treaty rejection plunges EU into crisis

Irish voters dealt a stunning blow to the European Union's grand reform plans Friday by rejecting a new treaty and plunging the bloc into a new crisis.

Of tire taxes and tire recycling

Nineteen years ago this May the Honourable R. F. Nixon - then provincial Treasurer in the Peterson Liberal Government - introduced a $5 tire tax in Ontario. The tax was supposed to, "… help fund efforts to support recycling and environmentally sound disposal." Just nine months later in February of 1990 a 14 million tire stockpile in Hagersville, Ontario burned. Despite this dramatic event by the time the Bob Rae NDP Government repealed the tire tax in 1993 the province had accrued over $150 million in revenue from the tire tax yet had only spent less than one-tenth of that amount on promoting scrap tire recovery and recycling. Upon repealing the tax then Finance Minister Bud Wildman stated that, "What the industry said is quite true, that the whole amount was not used for recycling and for new technologies related to rubber. The revenues, of course, went to the consolidated revenue fund…

IFJ Demands UAE Overturn Ban on Pakistan TV Programs

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is extremely concerned that two popular talk programs transmitted to Pakistan from Dubai-based GEO TV have been taken off air at the request of the Government of United Arab Emirates (UAE). The IFJ calls on the UAE Government to explain why, and on whose authority, it asked the independent Pakistan television broadcaster to cancel the programs. The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), an affiliate of the IFJ, said the owner of GEO and the Jang group of newspapers, Mir Shakeelur Rehman, confirmed that UAE authorities had asked GEO to discontinue broadcasting Capital Talk, hosted by Islamabad-based Hamid Mir, and Meray Mutabek, hosted by Dubai-based Shahid Masood.

New Poll Shows Quebec-based Support for Unborn Victims of Crime Bill C-484

(LifeSiteNews.com) - Despite a massive misinformation campaign by radical abortion activists, there remains majority support for a bill designed to ensure that those who murder unborn children while attacking pregnant women can be held accountable for those murders. At a press conference in Ottawa yesterday, Conservative MP Ken Epp released the results of a poll he commissioned regarding his Private Members Bill, C-484, the Unborn Victims of Crime Act.

Robert Mugabe’s militia burn opponent’s wife alive

Jan Raath in Mhondoro, Timesonline The men who pulled up in three white pickup trucks were looking for Patson Chipiro, head of the Zimbabwean opposition party in Mhondoro district. His wife, Dadirai, told them he was in Harare but would be back later in the day, and the men departed.

J. Richard Bond receives $500,000 Gruber Cosmology Prize

New York, NY, and Toronto, June 12th, 2008 ─ J. Richard Bond, PhD, director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Cosmology and Gravity Program, is the recipient of the 2008 Cosmology Prize of the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation in affiliation with the International Astronomical Union. He is being honored for groundbreaking theoretical work on structure formation and evolution of the universe.

Genetic clock ticks for men

Les Sheffield, The Herald Sun MOST men would have been surprised to read that overseas researchers had found the death rate of young adults was higher if they had been born to older fathers.