[...]ANSWP Commander Bill White speaking on the film, Jesus Camp:
I just saw the movie "Jesus Camp", which is a documentary on the Evangelical movement, particularly the bizarre and largely heretical Presbyterian speaking in tongues dancing around version of it. (And by "heretical", I mean a movement which, in its teachings, is largely in discord with the word of the Bible and Christ).
I am not a Christian, but....
TORONTO -- A provincial cabinet minister resigned and Premier Dalton McGuinty publicly apologized yesterday, following a highly critical report by the auditor general into the so-called "Colle-gate slush fund" scandal.
Citizenship and Immigration Minister Mike Colle took a political swan dive yesterday after the auditor reported that he was involved in the handing out of $32.5 million in capital grants to multicultural groups with little scrutiny and, in some cases, based on no more than a conversation with him or his political staff.
"Mike and I agree the minister must be held accountable and that stepping aside is the right thing to do," McGuinty said.
Auditor General Jim McCarter found no evidence the organizations were given funds because they had political ties, although a few groups did have some links to the Liberal party.
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180 kg of drugs seized in Halifax
HALIFAX (CP) - Almost 200 kilograms of hash oil and marijuana from Jamaica were seized at the port of Halifax after border officials searched a shipping container packed with yams, the Canadian Border Services Agency said Friday.
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London police say they made a "substantial" dent in crime in the Forest City after arresting 19 people and charging 12 from this area for firearms and drug-related offences.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Brian Mulroney has been ordered by a court to pay $470,000 to former business associate Karlheinz Schreiber.
Mulroney's lawyer Kenneth Prehogan appeared shocked by the ruling, saying it would be set aside because he has argued all along that the Ontario court had no jurisdiction to consider the lawsuit.
In his statement of claim, Schreiber said the cash was to enlist Mulroney's help in establishing an arms factory in Quebec and a pasta-machine business.
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