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RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: Canada: political campaign to outlaw Christian lawyers

An intense struggle is taking place in the realm of professional licensing in Canada. The religious freedom of Christians and others is colliding on a grand scale with the “equality rights” of the LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) identity group, and as the tide turns in favour of equality rights, we are starting to witness socially accepted ostracism of Christians by professional bodies. Professor Robert P. George ofPrinceton University’s law school On April 24, the law society of Canada’s largest province, Ontario, voted against admitting to its ranks graduates of Trinity Western University (TWU), an independent privately-supported Christian…

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HUMAN RIGHTS: The 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre remembered

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Despite determined efforts by the Chinese regime to prevent it, hundreds of thousands of people attended rallies around the world to mark the 25th anniversary of the killing of hundreds of Chinese students in Beijing’s iconic Tiananmen Square in 1989. The candle-lit vigils were also held because the communist regime has refused to acknowledge the…

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NEW ZEALAND: Families benefit from NZ budget surplus

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Families and children will benefit from years of tough spending curbs, New Zealand’s Finance Minister Bill English announced when he brought down the best budget in years. Mr English said the budget should yield a surplus of $NZ400 ($A340 million), rising to $3.5 billion in four years. This is a dramatic turnaround from the deficit…

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BOOK REVIEW The man who would be PM

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DIARY OF A FOREIGN MINISTER by Bob Carr (Sydney: NewSouth Books) Hardcover: 512 pages ISBN: 9781742234175 Price: $49.95 Reviewed by John Barich This is a peculiar book based on Bob Carr’s diary when he was Labor Minister of Foreign Affairs from March 2012 to September 2013. He makes no attempt to explain why some of his entries extend to four pages and one even to 11. It appears that the diary just provides a marker which he has then expanded from other documents. In one entry he includes a five-page email from Kim Beazley, Australia’s ambassador to…

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ENVIRONMENT: PM’s top business adviser rejects climate alarmism

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Maurice Newman, the chairman of the Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Council, told the ABC television’s Lateline program on April 22 that that there is little correlation between rising CO2 levels and the warming of the planet. Maurice Newman. During the course of an interview, Lateline presenter Emma Alberici put it to him: “It’s no secret that you don’t agree that man-made CO2 is causing global warming. Given there is now consensus among 97 per cent or so of climate scientists across the world that the view that human activity is responsible for climate change, what would it take to convince…

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EDITORIAL: High-profile scientists rebut climate change threat

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Not long after the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest Assessment Report warning that the world is facing environmental catastrophe due to global warming, or at least “climate change”, a group of high-profile scientists released their report, contradicting the IPCC on every significant point. The title of their work, Climate Change…

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