Guest Column

8000-Strong March for Life Gets another National Media Blackout in Canada

By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, May 12, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Apart from a few second audio remark on Mike Duffy's show on CTV there was absolutely no national coverage of the 8000-strong March for Life which took place in the national capital on May 8. The national broadcaster CBC ignored the March despite having given extensive coverage to abortionist Henry Morgentaler earlier this year as he celebrated his Supreme Court victory which struck down any limit on abortion in Canada.

Wilders Looks for European Allies, Suggests Reuniting Flanders and Netherlands

Geert Wilders, the leader of the Dutch Freedom Party PVV and the maker of Fitna, a controversial movie about the Koran, is back in the Netherlands after a two-week vacation in Las Vegas. In an interview published today in the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, the largest newspaper in the Netherlands, Wilders said that his party will stand for election in the 2009 European elections and must consider allying itself with like-minded European parties. He also called for a reunification of Flanders, the Dutch-speaking northern part of Belgium, and the Netherlands.

CAIR: U.S., Israel are the Terrorists

By Joe Kaufman, FrontPageMagazine.com "We don't live for this world, as many of the Ikhwan [Brotherhood] seem to believe unfortunately. We live for the afterlife. This dunya [world] is for Joe Kaufman and AlanDershowitz and George Bush. Let them have it because they'll have no share in the next life.” - Radical Islamist and CAIR Staffer, Omer Subhani

New Ethics Complaint Targets Ramos-Compean Prosecutor

Tell Congress to Urge President Bush to pardon agents Ramos-Compean.

Vatican: It’s OK to Believe in Aliens

"Writing in the Vatican newspaper, the astronomer, Father Gabriel Funes, said intelligent beings created by God could exist in outer space. Father Funes, director of the Vatican Observatory near Rome, is a respected scientist who collaborates with universities around the world. The search for forms of extraterrestrial life, he says, does not contradict belief in God. The official Vatican newspaper headlines his article 'Aliens Are My Brother'.” [BBC News Rome].

Belgium Accuses China of Cyberattacks

John E. Dunn, Techworld It's not just the U.S. and U.K. who are crying foul over China's behavior in cyberspace -- now the government of tiny Belgium has accused hackers from the country of targeting its systems.

The Vancouver Drug Injection Site Must be Shut Down

The supervised drug injection site in Vancouver was established as a "pilot project" by the Liberal government in 2003 for a three-year period. It was intended to be a precursor for sites in other major cities across Canada. Fortunately, this plan died when the Conservatives took over the government.

Tulip Festival extends apology to Falun Gong

Canadian Tulip Festival brass step in to apologize. Tian Guo Marching Band accepts apology and agrees to perform at Dow's Lake.

Just Why Didn’t the Earth Freeze in the Past?

Billions of years ago the, Earth was younger. In fact, billions of years ago, a lot of stuff was younger than it is now. It seems an innocuous or even moronic statement, for sure, but it’s a statement at the heart of one of the planet’s long unanswered questions.

Twitter At Large in Chinese Quake

Towards the end of last year, when California suffered one of its worst wildfires in recent history, Twitter became a lifeline for many people. A regular stream of updates, coordinated with a simple tag so that anyone could search for them, provided people quick and vital information.

Amnesty urges release of Saudi facing flogging

RIYADH, May 11 (Reuters) - Amnesty International has urged Saudi authorities to release a Saudi university professor who is facing flogging and imprisonment for meeting a woman to whom he is not related for coffee in the conservative Islamic kingdom.

Taliban ban TV in Afghan province

Taliban insurgents have ordered residents of a province near the capital Kabul to stop watching television, saying the networks were showing un-Islamic programmes, officials and local media said on Tuesday.

Lebanon’s “300″

While the West is busy living its daily life, a beast is busy killing the freedom of a small community on the East Mediterranean: Lebanon. Indeed, as of last week, the mighty Hezbollah, armed to the teeth with 30,000 rockets and missiles and aligning thousands of self described "Divine soldiers" has been marching across the capital, terrorizing its population, shutting down media, taking its politicians and the Prime Minister as hostages, and looting at will. The hordes of Lebanon's "Khomeinist Janjaweeds" have conquered already half of the Middle East's cultural capital, Beirut. As I have reported before, Hezbollah has occupied West Beirut and has since sent its storm troops in multiple directions to resume the blitz.

Drang nach Osten. In the name of Allah!

Had any one of the European monarchs, grandees or pontifices of the XVth century ever heard of the word "Prussia"? Unlikely. Stuck in the Baltic bogs between Russia and Poland, Prussia, the miserable successor to the Teutonic Order, the obedient vassal of proud Poland (Rech Pospolita), hopelessly vegetated on the boondocks of Europe.

Sahara’s Green Slowly Transformed to Dust

The world’s largest hot desert (seeing as technically Antarctica is the largest desert, though cold), the Sahara measures in at over 9 million square kilometers, and covers the majority of northern Africa. With an intermittent history that some believe may go back as far as 3 million years, the Sahara is a land of harsh realities and mysteries the same.

DARPA’s Fight on the Internet Begins

One of a number of groups or people attributed with the creation of the internet are now intent on finding ways to protect from cyber attacks. DARPA – the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency – have announced their desire to create what they are labeling a National Cyber Range.

Stop Believing Obama

By Philip Klein David Axelrod laughed.

Even the Leaders Think the Homosexual Activist Movement in Canada is Going Too Far

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski TORONTO, May 12, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - EGALE (Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere) Canada, the homosexual activist group that has consistently worked to silence opposition to homosexual activity, has sent a letter to the president and CEO of Canada Post, asking them to censor the mail.

China regularly disrespects Canada’s laws

Patrick Donnelly, Calgary Herald Ever since China's remarkable economic transformation, its 2001 accession to the World Trade Organization and its successful capture of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, China has become a country desperate for international respect as a world power. Over the past several years, in particular, Beijing has prepared extensively for its place on the international stage.

Irena Sendler, who saved 2,500 Jews from Holocaust, dies at 98

From Haartz.com Irena Sendler - a Polish social worker who helped save some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto and giving them false identities - has died. She was 98.