Your blogger with Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi and Calgary-Fort MLA Wayne Cao, the best singer in the Legislature. Below: Sun columnist Ezra Levant. Demagoguery is not an accusation that stings very much nowadays. Almost anyone can be accused of being a…

Traditional holiday customs appear to be on the outs for some Canadians, according to the results of the latest poll. Fewer Canadians, 72 per cent, say they’ll be dining on turkey for Christmas dinner, down nine percentage points since 2007, according to the latest Ipsos Reid poll conducted for Postmedia News and Global News. Of [...]

“Give me the child and I will give you the man,” the Jesuits boast. Indoctrinate a child in a faith and he, or she, will carry that faith for life. Or at least, most will. According to the latest British Social Attitudes survey, not indoctr…

By QMI Agency Your days may be merry and bright, but will Mother Nature make your Christmas white? Most of the country can expect “near normal” levels of precipitation for the next couple of months, the experts at The Weather Network say. In fact, the entire winter will be “typical” across much of Canada, and [...]

The question, broached by Amber MacArthur in Thursday’s The Globe and Mail, comes with its own set of issues that perhaps merits a bit of precision. As MacArthur points out:”The Perry video is an open attack on the gay community. He clearly implies tha…

Legendary Australian tennis champion and Pentecostal, Reverend Margaret Court, has once again displayed her flagrant brand of homophobia, this time in her condemnation of the marriage equality movement in Australia. Court, who founded and is a senior p…

Dear Readers; Since it’s Sunday, it’s time for Sunday School again, with this timely article from Live Science! ———————————————– By Adam Hadhazy, LiveScience Contributor This December is chock full of “holy days,” or holidays. On Dec. 25, Christians commemorate Christmas. For Jews, Hanukkah starts this year on Dec. 20 in the Western and international Gregorian [...]

  Not so much of the unveiled hate we’re used to this disservice, but more of an exploration of the hoops people will jump through to keep their chosen godhead happy.  This video is about growing up in a fundamentalist christian household and t…

Dear Readers: The United States currently has 25% of all the people in prisons around the world. Part of this is from their disastrous war on drugs, part of it is from the influence of the Right Wing, and part of it is just a case of the justice system gone wild in that country. [...]

Finding out that many religions are paradoxical is like making the discovery that there happens to be chlorine in salt.  Looking at the basis of the christian god it is obvious that not one, but several paradoxes are required to make sense of who or w…

A few years ago, my neighbour sent me this – most of which wasn’t actually written by Ben Stein, but is crappy enough that it could have been. He asked for our feelings on it (it was sent to a lot of people) and I wrote a reply, below. My S…

As if the tragedy at Penn State wasn’t bad enough in and of itself, people with unrelated axes to grind are now using it to get attention.

1.  A spokesman for an anti-gay hate group blames gay men and homosexuality for the alleged sexual assault(s) at Penn State.  By repeating the old lie about how pedophilia is linked to homosexuality they managed to suck up a considerable amount of media

As if the tragedy at Penn State wasn’t bad enough in and of itself, people with unrelated axes to grind are now using it to get attention. 1.  A spokesman for an anti-gay hate group blames gay men and homosexuality for the alleged sexual assault(s) a….

In an Iraq torn by national and religious divides, there is no safe haven for Nuria’s family or other Arab families who convert from Islam. Muslim family members, neighbors or employers who discover they are converts can make their lives unbearable.

THE ULTIMATE LEGAL DEFENSEby Dr. Eduardo M. RiveraAs originally posted on: EDRIVERA.COMOctober 6, 2011Knowing how to separate law into what is written an unwritten law is the ultimate legal defense. The Ten Commandants has obscured the fact that God …

Support for marriage equality in Australia continues to gain momentum since the lower house of the state of Tasmania became the first in the country to formally support same-sex marriage last month. Add to this the declaration from leading rugby player…

Dear Readers; Since it’s Sunday, it is time for a bit of religious news! Islam keeps proving it is stuck in the twelfth century, as this latest piece from Iran shows! ————————————– TEHRAN, IRAN (BosNewsLife)– Militants with suspected ties to Iranian security forces have threatened to kill nearly a dozen evangelical Christians who fled Iran [...]

Christians. Church. God. Jesus. Occupy. What do these words mean to you? For many, the connotations are negative. Personal experiences with judgemental, rigid, frozen people who identify themselves as Christians have left a bitter taste in their mouths. Memories of being harangued, condescended to and lectured linger long after their encounter. Media and political examples [...]

We in Christendom have a history of “Christians” using religion to justify violence of all kinds, from war to burning people at the stake. Indeed, exploiting one of history’s gentlest prophets to justify violence is one of the more intriguing themes of…

A bunch of old white jerks are using God’s name to harrass women outside health clinics. Even here in my own city. It sickens me.Dear Christians who Don’t Get It,If the lot of you actually believed abortion was murder, I’d have a hell of a lot more res…