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The Lilies of the Field, and Krista Lynn: A Prescription for Tired Hearts, and Bishops

The tired functionaries of Rome don’t live by the human heart anymore, but like all of us, they once did. I know them, for I was once like them.

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - The first of so many aboriginal friends of mine who have died for speaking up was a young woman named Krista Lynn.

On January 29, 1995 - the Sunday after I was barred from my pulpit at St. Andrew’s United Church in Port Alberni - Krista stood up in my place and did like Jesus did, and caused a riot in the synagogue by calling down the Pharisees.

Soft Yet Durable - Local Fabric Production Could Help BC`s Economy

More and more, hemp-fabric supporters in BC find allies in wanting to grow industrial hemp commercially.

(VICTORIA BC) - Industrial hemp has been with human civilization since before 7000 B.C.

Fast forward to the middle ages and start of the Renaissance back to your high school lesson—you may remember a hippie history teacher telling you about Christopher Columbus making use of good old hemp for his ocean-going voyages.

Emily Herx sues St. Vincent de Paul Catholic School

It is worth knowing that in the early years, the Church did not ban priests from marrying, nor did it exclusively deny women from clergy.

(CLEVELAND) - A former Catholic School English Teacher named Emily Herx, is taking St. Vincent de Paul School in Fort Wayne, Indiana to court for wrongful firing.

She wanted to have a child. As it turns out, the in-vitro fertilization treatments she received are in conflict with the church's teachings... Imagine that.

Take a Lesson, Canada! In England, the Cops Actually Investigate Reports of Mass Graves of Children!

Police are investigating a claim that the bodies of 40 children were buried in a mass grave at an orphanage more than half a century ago.

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - In Canada, the RCMP and local police have consistently ignored reports of eyewitnesses who have buried children at former Indian hospitals and residential schools.

The government and media have similarly refused to investigate twenty eight documented mass grave sites near former residential schools...

A Twin Dilemma Solved... Something Fishy On The Fraser

And the Gulf's New Tourist Mecca...
From The Canadian Shield

(SASKATCHEWAN) - If Jesus could be beamed down to earth, let's say just east of where the Port Mann Bridge spans the mighty Fraser River above its huge embouchure at the city of Vancouver, I'm not only certain that He could walk on the water.

In fact it would not require any divine circumvention as to viscosity, hydraulic principles or gravity.

This Land is Our Land: The Case for Kanata

Long before the first aboriginal woman or child in “Canada” was slaughtered by my people, the same thing was done to our own ancestors back in Europe, and by the same Empire.

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - Last week, the first dozen of us on the west coast who are pledged to a new deal for everyone in our land met in a small café in Vancouver’s east end.

We started dreaming together, which is what colonized people do before they can take any real steps towards breaking centuries-old shackles.

An Apology for the New Republic

My father, without hesitation enlisted in the European World War I “for King and country,” just as he cheered on my late oldest brother to follow suit some two decades later.

(SASKATCHEWAN) - My father was an imperialist.

He was raised in Tory Ontario in a Baptist family that was perhaps embarrassed by the existence of the rebel Philip Annett who, four generations earlier, had seized the family flintlock and hastened to join William Lyon MacKenzie during the abortive rebellion of 1837.

The Toughest Element in Fitness is Motivation

In reality, it doesn’t matter how much weight you can lift, how many supplements you take, six-pack or no six-pack, motivation affects us all and is the key element in every fitness program.

(GUELPH, Ontario) - If you are like most of us you have your hands full with life’s daily routine and frequently that routine does not include fitness!

Alberta: Political hell looms

If the Wildrose Party forms the government on April 23, Alberta is on its way to becoming Alabama north with oil.

(Calgary, Alberta) - Alberta is one of the few places in the world that is rat-free, and has been so for more than half a century.

Only zoos, universities, and research institutes are allowed to own caged rats in Alberta, and possession of an unlicensed rat (even a pet rat) is punishable by a $5,000 fine or 60 days in jail.

Truth and Consequences in the Land of Nothing

After they had performed for the Christians, the children would return to the school, where half of them would die.

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - I’ve been ignoring the orchestrated circus calling itself the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, but now that it’s meeting in my own backyard, I’ve been asked to comment.

Frankly, it’s all quite the déjà vu experience. The travesty going on this weekend in Victoria reminds me of a story told to me by one of the few survivors who hasn’t been gagged.