The short answer is yes. The longer answer is why risk it? A recent article pointed out, maybe correctly or wrongly, that Thomas Mulcair is deciding to form a government without being competitive in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), that belt of support surrounding the City of Toronto that in
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Canadian Psephos: Predicting the Unpredictable
With the first full day of official campaigning underway, where is the state of the race? Luckily we know, since it seems that everyone and their mothers have set up election projections or predictions in time for this campaign. Even I have maintained a rolling average offline, currently showing a
Continue readingCanadian Psephos: Editable Map of #elxn42 boundaries
Looking for a map of Canada’s new 338 constituencies that you can colour code on your own? Are you a visual learner and like to see how support looks on a geographic projection? Do you like pretty colours? Look no further! Below is a map that anyone can use for
Continue readingCanadian Psephos: #Elxn42 is Called – and a New Site
On October 19th, Canadians will decide who gets the govern this country for the 42nd time. An election has been called after Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited Governor General David Johnston this morning, asked for Parliament to be dissolved and the writs to be drawn up, and started the longest
Continue readingMaple-Flavoured Politics: The Silliest Anti-Abortion Argument
Of all the anti-abortion arguments that get thrown about, I think I saw the silliest one today. (Disclosure: I’m pro-choice.) It didn’t come from an anti-abortion activist, but rather from a pro-choice person who was relating an argument that was directed at her some years ago. It came in the
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Charisma magazine and the dog that did nothing in the night
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission An article from Charisma magazine this morning reminds me of Sherlock Holmes. Jennifer LeClaire, the magazine’s Senior News Editor, posted an article on the magazine’s website, which gives a rundown on several “prophetic words” of 2014. It is “Did 2014’s Prophetic
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: The Crossroads Communications network renames and rebrands itself
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. An interesting story in the National Post a couple of days ago. Reporter Claire Brownell reports on changes to Christian broadcasting in Canada. The sermon on the monitor: The new wave of evangelists who’ve turned preaching into a multimedia endeavour She
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Todd Bentley’s new wife is pregnant
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission It should be noted for the record that Jessa Bentley, the second wife of Todd Bentley, is well along with being pregnant. It was confirmed by an e-mail to his supporters a few weeks ago, complete with photo of a very
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Marci McDonald, “friend” of Faytene?!?
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission Did you know that reporter and author Marci McDonald was at one time part of “The hand of Hell”? Or that at one time, she was a “friend” of Canadian evangelist and activist Faytene Grasseschi (nee Kryskow), who was a portrayed
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Harper signed trade agreements with China, while Canadian Christians rot in prison
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission Can’t say that Stephen Harper doesn’t know the value of a dollar. Over the past few days he has been In China, finalizing trade agreements with the government of China worth $2.5 billion. As he did, Canadians Kevin Garratt and Julia Dawn
Continue readingMaple-Flavoured Politics: Questions of Harassment
Two Liberal MPs were recently suspended from caucus for what statements from the Liberal Party of Canada and Justin Trudeau called “personal misconduct.” Media reports went further, describing it has harassment of MPs in another party. Some media reports were even more specific, calling it sexual harassment. This incident raised
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Rewriting history for the past five years, and counting
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. Winston Churchill once said, or wrote: “History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.” Or rewrite it, in the case of Faytene Grasseschi, perhaps? The Canadian born evangelist and activist was at Toronto City Church in late
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: They could use that old barn out back
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission There will be at least one sequel to the new Left Behind with Nicolas Cage, says filmmaker Paul Lalonde. In a statement released on the Left Behind fan page on Facebook… …Lalonde announced that he feels compelled to keep the series
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: An apology on behalf of “social media” Christians to Nicolas Cage
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. Ted Baehr’s Movieguide has felt burdened to apologize to Bicolas Cage about the occasionally visceral reaction to the new Left Behind film. The open letter… Open Letter to Nicolas Cage: Critical Christians Left Behind Love for Others …argues that Christians on
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: The Ottawa/Parliament Hill shootings
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission. Following yesterday’s shootings in Ottawa, I thought creating a thread might be helpful. Discuss in the comments. And pray offline. Thank you.
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: “No airline attendant would wear a blouse two sizes two small.”–On the new Left Behind film
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission Quite the crash and burn, for the new Left Behind film starring Nicolas Cage, as it were. According to the movie grosses site, Indiewire, as I write, Left Behind has dropped to number 10 on their list of movie grosses, earning
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: God TV founder resigns because of adultery – for now
God TV: GOD TV Co-founder Rory Alec steps aside GOD TV Co-founder Rory Alec has today announced he is leaving the Network, standing aside as Chairman and CEO with immediate effect. This follows what he terms ‘a moral failure’ concerning his marriage. GOD TV Co-founder and Director of Television, Wendy
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Yellow light for Todd
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. Todd Bentley evidently sees his recent trip to British Columbia as a success, as he’s planning more. From Sept. 25-28 he’ll be back at Windword church in Langley Township, B.C.. This is where Brent Borthwick is pastor, and Bentley’s starter wife
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Cracked on faith healers
By Rick Hiebert. All Right Reserved. Used by Permission The humour website Cracked is exposing faith healers. A Robert Evans, who says he is a retired faith healer, explains how he did it, or rather faked it, in this blog post here. Would be interesting to know if his back
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Berated for not being able to predict Mark Driscoll’s and Todd Bentley’s futures
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission Blogger Jeffrey Yoder is even harder than I can be in the case of Todd Bentley, if that were possible. But I think it a bit much to expect people to predict the future. In his new post What Todd Bentley
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