Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated in Canada and many other countries that began as a day to give thanks for the blessing of the harvest of the preceding year. Never in Canadian history was this day used to browbeat a pastor into submission for giving that thanks -- until this past week. It was another shameful day in a long line of shameful days for Canada … [Read more...]
Edmonton Crown Prosecutor vs Mexican Police Hunted and Murdered by Drug Cartels
On June 8th I took great exception to a gutless and cowardly Edmonton Crown Prosecutor who feels the need to hide his or her identity from a Christian Pastor, the Pastor's wife and children and the Pastor's congregation and supporters. “A Crown prosecutor, whose identity is under a publication ban due to security concerns, called only one witness,” said the CBC. Security … [Read more...]
Edmonton’s Gutless and Cowardly Crown Prosecutor
This bizarre line is from a May 03, 2021, CBC article published as Edmonton Pastor James Coates’ trial for defying COVID restrictions began. “A Crown prosecutor, whose identity is under a publication ban due to security concerns, called only one witness.” WHAT?!?! When I read that the Crown Prosecutor attempting to put Pastor James Coates in prison asked for and was … [Read more...]
19 Ontario Cops Side With Religious Freedoms and Constitutional Liberty over COVID Lockdowns
In a refreshing change from COVID cops arresting pastors for preaching the Gospel, a group of 19 serving and former police officers are challenging the constitutionality of Ontario’s COVID restrictions. They claim enforcing COVID lockdown and public gathering restrictions forces them to breach their oath to uphold the constitution. The Ontario Ministry of the Attorney … [Read more...]
Jason Kenney: Alberta’s King of COVID and Master of Tone-Deaf Hypocrisy
UPDATED May 11, 2021 at 18:00: Corrected reference to Artur Powlowski's childhood in Poland under communist rule. The same day he ordered a Calgary SWAT team to perform a ‘high-risk takedown’ of Pastor Artur Pawlowski in the middle of a busy Alberta highway [Watch Arrest Video], Jason Kenney had the audacity to Tweet: Today is an important commemoration of one … [Read more...]
Where are the Defenders of Religious Freedom?
Independent MP Derek Sloan and independent Ontario MPP Randy Hillier are the only two politicians I’m aware of who dare defend the right of Canadians to worship God during COVID. So where are the rest of the politicians defending the fundamental religious freedoms of Canadians? This question immediately brings to mind that famous scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off when … [Read more...]
BC Supreme Court Sides with Bonnie Henry, BC’s High Priestess of COVID
So much for Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms. If you ever believed the Charter was worth the paper it's printed on (I don't) then the decision in Beaudoin et al v. British Columbia and Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry should disabuse of that silly notion. On March 18, 2021, BC Supreme Court Justice Christopher Hinkson sided with Dr. Bonnie Henry - BC's … [Read more...]
Pastor James Coates Released from Edmonton Remand Centre
On Monday, March 22, Pastor James Coates was finally released from the Edmonton Remand Centre after spending 34 days behind bars for the 'crime' of preaching a Sunday sermon. Pastor Coates pleaded guilty to 'breaching a court undertaking to follow public health regulations' and stop preaching at GraceLife Church on Sundays - an undertaking Pastor Coates never agreed … [Read more...]
Pastor James Coates to be Released from Edmonton Remand Centre
Pastor James Coates spent the past 29 days in the Edmonton Remand Centre for the heinous crime of preaching a Christian sermon on Sundays. More accurately, Pastor Coates was incarcerated on February 16, 2021, for refusing to sign a bail condition demanding he stop exercising his Charter freedoms of conscience, religion, expression, association and peaceful assembly. John … [Read more...]
Who Should We Fear More: Christian Pastor James Coates or Registered Child Sex Offender Cyle Larsen?
On March 1st, 2021 - Pastor James Coates' 14th day in solitary confinement in Edmonton Remand Centre - the Edmonton Police Service issued a Public Warning about Cyle Larsen, a convicted child sex offender who was released from the Edmonton Remand Centre. This raises an obvious question. A couple of them, actually. Why does the Alberta Government fear the release of a … [Read more...]
Pray for Edmonton Pastor James Coates
Today I ask you to pray for Pastor James Coates who, for the 13th day in a row, sits in a solitary confinement cell in the Edmonton Remand Centre - a maximum security prison - while that same facility released over 500 prisoners in the past year due to COVID, including dangerous offender Clint Carifelle. The hypocrisy of releasing violent offenders while imprisoning … [Read more...]
Bonnie Henry Wants to Arrest Churchgoers, not just Pastors
Dr. Bonnie Henry refuses to shut down ski resorts after 547 COVID cases are linked directly to Whistler Mountain in January alone, yet refuses to rescind her order banning religious worship services despite her inability to link a single COVID case to a worship service anywhere in British Columbia since November. “What I’m telling people is it’s okay to go outside to go … [Read more...]
Dr. Bonnie Henry to Arrest, Jail Pastors for Defying Her Senseless Public Health Orders
Dr. Bonnie Henry, British Columbia's very own High Priestess of COVID, doubled down on her hatred of religious worship services, despite over 500 cases of COVID linked directly to the Whistler/Blackcomb ski resort (which remains open). Bonnie Henry will now attempt to have church pastors arrested and hauled off to jail for daring to defy her senseless and contradictory … [Read more...]
Bonnie Henry’s Health Orders Stand Trial on March 1st
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms’ lawsuit against public health orders issued by Dr. Bonnie Henry will be heard before BC Chief Justice Hinkson on March 1–3, 2021 at the Supreme Court in Vancouver. This is good news. The JCCF filed their legal challenge against restrictions on public protest and public worship services on January 7, 2021. (Download PDF of … [Read more...]
BC Premier Horgan Obeys One Section of Charter While Happily Violating Another
On Thursday, January 21, 2021, BC Premier John Horgan told reporters he would not impose a travel ban based on a “review of our legal options.” The Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees our right to mobility in Section 6: Mobility Rights. 6 (1) Every citizen of Canada has the right to enter, remain in and leave Canada. (2) Every citizen of Canada and every person who … [Read more...]
Update on The Christian Post’s Pro-Abortion Debacle
Well, much to my surprise I actually received a response from The Christian Post about their pro-abortion Plan B pill ad debacle. I suppose sending them a copy of my article "Has The Christan Post Found Secularism but Lost Christ" helped, since they didn't respond to my first message to them on the subject. No, it was my article that seemed to get their attention … [Read more...]
Has “The Christian Post” Found Secularism but Lost Christ?
Have the Editors, Writer and Founders of the online publication The Christian Post completely lost their way? Have they forgotten the most basic tenets of Christianity in their search for a wider secular audience? Have they lost Christ Himself in their misguided search for relevance (and ad revenue)? These are all valid questions in the wake of their latest newsletter … [Read more...]
Southern Baptist Convention No Longer Comprehends the Bible?
For years I’ve followed the career of Judge Roy Moore. He is the man who, as Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, defied the orders of a federal judge and kept the Ten Commandments in the Alabama Judicial Building. Judge Moore was ultimately removed from his post as Chief Justice as a result of his decision and his refusal to back down from it. I admire a man with the … [Read more...]
Literary Hypocrisy Tramples Freedom of Thought and Religion
Fred & Louise Hamilton Elementary School has what's called "Read To Myself" time. One might reasonably expect that "Read To Myself" time is when you can, you know, read to yourself from any book you want. It's your time, right? Wrong. While you can read "Hunger Games" at Fred & Louise Hamilton Elementary School during "Read To Myself" time, don't you dare try … [Read more...]
A&E Caves to Viewer Pressure, Reinstates Phil Robertson to Hit Show “Duck Dynasty”
A&E Network caved to pressure but not from those who you might expect. A&E's so-called "stand" against Phil Robertson's Right to Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion lasted a massive 9 days. They caved the millisecond they understood their sacred cash cow "Duck Dynasty", the highest rated cable show in history, would die if they did not reverse their asinine … [Read more...]
Mount Soledad Veterans Memorial: Religious Freedom for Everyone Except Christians?
A Southern California District Court has ruled that a cross at the Mount Soledad Veterans Memorial in San Diego is a government endorsement of a specific religion and must be removed within 90 days. The judge in the case, Larry Alan Burns, appeared to be choked up as he read his decision, saying that precedent from the wildly liberal Ninth Circuit Court left him no options. … [Read more...]
Duck Dynasty Patriarch Fired by A&E Network for Speaking Biblical Truth
“The press must grow day in and day out -- it is our Party’s sharpest and most powerful weapon.” -- Josef Stalin The past week was an enlightening one if you believe in Freedom of Speech, and not in a good way. The Arts and Entertainment Network’s world-class display of hypocrisy made it clear that the Mainstream Media will … [Read more...]
Quebec Passes Another “Racist” and Charter-Violating Law
That Pauline Marois proposes another Charter-violating law is hardly a surprise. The woman who despises the Canadian flag so much she refuses to let it stand inside the Quebec Legislature (while hypocritically cashing our transfer payment checks, of course) despises pretty much everything about Canada except the money we shovel into her province each and every … [Read more...]
Freedom of Speech? No Thanks, We’re Canadian…
[powerpress] On Wednesday, February 27, 2013 the Supreme Court of Canada had the opportunity to stand up for Canadians’ Right to Freedom of Speech. To call their ruling in R. v. Whatcott an “Epic Fail” would be a gross understatement. When the Supreme Court starts out by explaining as it did in Whatcott, not that individual rights are the very foundation of our … [Read more...]
Diamond Rio’s Uplifting and Inspirational Song In God We Still Trust
For the religious among us here is a lovely song that's been around a while but bears listening to again as we lead up to a US Presidential election where the values of the two candidates couldn't be more clear. In Obama we have a man who hates America and apologizes to the world for her success. In Romney we have a man who has character, integrity, moral fibre and a … [Read more...]
Pastor Terry Jones Barred Entry. So Much for Freedom of Speech in Canada…
Florida Pastor Terry Jones is best known for his outspoken opposition to islam. He made international headlines when he burned a Koran two years ago on the anniversary of 9/11. He also created and promoted “International Burn a Koran Day” as a way of protesting against radical islam. Terry Jones was scheduled to debate Toronto imam on the film Innocence of Muslims outside … [Read more...]
Freedoms: Yours Until They Are Stolen by Jane Gaffin
People don’t give a whit about freedom as long as they naively believe the government is not goring their ox, which, they painfully discover with time, it was their own personal inalienable rights that were stealthily chipped away in silence until those freedoms no longer exist. Frequently, freedom-lovers allude to the famous “First They Came For” passage that refers to … [Read more...]
Athiests won’t feed the football team but they don’t want anyone else feeding the team either
Don’t you just love the whining morons who complain that a church is doing something even though the whiners won’t do it themselves? Take the case of churches in LaFayette, Georgia, providing meals to local football teams before games. Here are people (yes, churches are in fact filled with people) doing a great thing (feeding young athletes). I find it bizarre that … [Read more...]
Sometimes Profoundly Stupid Actions Have Consequences… Imagine That Adam M. Smith!
Adam M. Smith isn’t normally a stupid person. He was the chief financial officer for a very large company up until just the other day when they fired him for his incredibly bad judgment and, well, plain rudeness to a Chick-Fil-A employee at a drive-thru in Tucson, Arizona. Adam M. Smith was so profoundly stupid to not only videotape his rude and abusive diatribe, but also … [Read more...]
Christian University wants Christian employees? Oh the horror!
Can you imagine a media uproar over a Jewish university wanting to employ Jewish people? Or a Muslim university wanting to employ Muslims? Of course not. So why all the uproar over a Christian university wanting to employ practicing Christians? The answer, of course, is pretty simple. Christianity is currently the only religion that it is politically correct to slander … [Read more...]