The Cry Hollywood (and how it may be crucial for Faytene’s future)
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission Faytene Grasseschi is taking her Cry rallies on the road to Hollywood (move over Bing and Bob )–and the event may…
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Rick Perry quotes Canadian satirist – seriously
At an appearance in New Hampshire last week, Mr. Perry, struggling to regain momentum in the race, made reference to the quote, which he said was sent to him by…
Score Another Victory for Scientists, Michael Mann, and the Freedom of Inquiry
495px-Mann4.jpg Yesterday in a Virginia courtroom, Michael Mann—who is quickly becoming the Galileo of climate science—triumphed over the conservative American Tradition Institute, an...
Radio Topics, Day of the Dead edition
Happy Day of the Dead! We’ve got an exciting show lined up. At 8:05, we’ll speak with Citizens for Safe Cycling VP Alex DeVries about their upcoming AGM. A 8:30,…
Charles McVety starts Canadian Religious Broadcasters Association
In February of this year, religiousbroadcasters.ca was registered. The organization is housed at Canada Christian College in Toronto. This registration occurred shortly after Charles McVety’s program was kicked off Crossroads…
Picking up bad habits, in the church, and in the newsroom
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permissions There was an interesting online column from London’s Daily Telegraph newspaper a few days ago, which reports that some newer churches…
Toronto 911 not amused at Mayor Rob Ford’s verbal abuse
Wow. Just wow. I have been following the Rob Ford, This Hour Has 22 Minutes story and wrote up a post last night that I trashed. I don’t think the…
Tim Hortons Blenheim – public display of affection
Once this story hit the internet this week, all heck broke loose. It’s become a confusing story about reactions. Tim Horton’s issued a statement on Facebook apologizing to the two…
Harold Camping leaves Family Radio
The Christian Post and Charisma Magazine are reporting that 90-year-old false prophet Harold Camping has been forced to step down from Family Radio. The Christian Post: Harold Camping, who predicted…
Happy Tuesday! It’s funding drive!
Hi all! We’ve got an exciting show lined up today. The main focus, though, will be for funding drive. For 2 weeks a year, CKCU passes the hat to keep…
Why Hard Core Climate “Skeptics” Don’t Change Their Minds
Muller001.jpg I’ve been watching with interest the blogosphere uproar over the release of results from the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project centered around physicist Richard Mulle...
Bloggers: “Phew!”
By Rick Hiebert. All rights Reserved. Used by Permission. A Supreme Court of Canada decision earlier this week will have an interesting impact on blogging, and on the Internet in…
Federal Conservative MP’s and staffers, It gets better
In 2008 former pastor, now Senator Don Meredith hopes those who bullied Jamie Hubley are punished. CBC: “Individuals who have caused this should be punished to the nth degree, according…
Another lawsuit for Eddie Long and New Birth Missionary Baptist Church
If I was an elder at Eddie Long’s church, I’d be getting a bit tired of the lawsuits coming my way. a)After reaching an out of court settlement with four…
Why Communicating Science is So Money
schmidt2-300x300.jpg I’ve been meaning to thrown in my congratulations to Gavin Schmidt of NASA and RealClimate.org, who is the first recipient of the American Geophysical Union’s new...
Revile those who revile and persecute you?
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission It’s tough to be a friend of evangelist Todd Bentley. Until you unleash your security guards and rhetorical castigations, anyways. Recently,…
Hill Times interview with Dennis Gruending
Hill Times Kate Malloy interviews author Dennis Gruending: Competition among religious ideologies will continue with ‘an enduring intensity,’ says Gruending How much of a force is the religious right in…
The Occupy movement
OccupyWriters – a one sentence letter. OccupyWriters.com is an open letter of support by creative writers for Occupy Wall St and the Occupy movement around the world, signed by more…
Why Did Climate Progress Stall? It’s Called Conservative Ideological Activation
HideTheDeclineShirt.jpg There has been much reaction to this weekend’s Elizabeth Rosenthal New York Times piece—“Where Did Global Warming Go?” Clearly, the issue has falle...