Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Linda McQuaig discusses Stephen Harper’s class war: Canadians don’t like Harper’s anti-worker agenda — when they notice it. That’s why there’s been such…
Dennis Gruending
The Canadian Catholic Church, Then And Now
From Dennis Gruending on the 30th anniversary of the Canada’s Catholic bishops’ report Ethical Reflections on the Economic Crisis:“We are losing the tension between the church and the state in…
Gruending On The New Pope
How deep was he in with the Argentine generals? Actually, its kind of hard to say. But he hates communists, that’s for damn sure.
Gruending On The Manning Center Confab
Preston Manning and his wife Sandra created the Manning Centre in 2005 to act as a training ground for conservative politicos and a think tank and advocacy arm for conservative…
Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Dennis Gruending writes about the importance of Edgar Schmidt’s whistleblowing against unconstitutional legislation: Schmidt says that he has over a period of years…
Gruending On John Baird’s Office of Religious Freedom
In fact, the plan is modeled on the Office of International Religious Freedom which was created by the Clinton administration in the United States in 1998. A common criticism is…
Catholic Bishops Cave To Tories!
A couple of posts by Gruending give the best run-down of a story I've been following out of the corner of my eye for awhile now: the suspension of Development's…
Gruending On Remembrance Day
One might be tempted to consign T.T. Shields and his demagoguery to the past but it is not so different from a recent program that I saw on CTS Television.…
Dennis Gruending On The Oppression Of Canadian Mennonite Magazine
Quite a bit more detail here than in the CBC piece. The most interesting bit, though, is not even about the magazine per se. Its about the financial costs associated…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to end your Saturday. – Jim Stanford looks in detail at the aftereffects of free trade with the U.S., and finds rather little to cheer: In sum, the…
Gruending On Chaplains In Prisons
If the changes introduced by Minister Toews are not really about cutting costs, then what is going on? The best analysis that I have seen is from Stephen Maher for…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Alison nicely debunks the Cons’ latest Robocon talking points. Paula Boutis offers her own suggestions to strengthen Elections Canada in investigating vote…
Dennis Gruending On The Sale Of The Saskatchewan Wheat Pool
Farmers fought long and hard to create the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool in 1924, but 88 years later the company, now known as Viterra, is being sold to a Swiss-based multinational…
Harper Brings Down The Hammer On Another Faith-Based Group
From Gruending: The hammer that had earlier landed on faith-based organizations such as KAIROS and the Mennonite Central Committee has now fallen on the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and…
Harper Defunds Mennonite Church Group
Dennis Gruending predicted it in his last outing: CIDA will soon abandon a number of its long-standing development partners among Canadian NGOs, including a number of church-based organizations. Reliable sources…
Book Review: Pulpit and Politics
Dennis Gruending is a former journalist and NDP MP who blogs about political and religious issues – which in theory should make for an ideal background for a book focusing…
Gruending On Christians In Syria
Former MP and Politics & Pulpit author takes a look at the dilemma facing Syrian Christians: The Scottish writer William Dalrymple says that Syria has been a kind of oasis…
Gruending On Canadian Churches, Climate Change, And Durban
Its all good, but my favorite bit is about how The National Post felt it necessary to spike Rex Murphy’s geriatric rage at the fact a mere African might dare…
The Church And The Occupy Movement: Has The Religuous Left Lost Its Voice?
I’ll let Dennis Gruending ponder that one. But one small point that seems to have been missed in the case of Occupy Toronto: In Toronto, the occupiers were camped in…