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Atheist transit ads will run

SCOC decision upholds freedom of speech in bus advertising Jul 11, 2009 IAN FAIRCLOUGH The Canadian Press http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/1131887.html

Decision on TransLink ads a victory for freedom of speech

July 11, 2009 Peter McKnight Vancouver Sun http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Decision+TransLink+victory+freedom+speech/1781452/story.html

Transit ad bans said to violate Charter of Rights

July 11, 2009 Philip Ling Canwest News Service http://www.canada.com/Transit+bans+said+violate+Charter+Rights/1782085/story.html

Fuss on the bus?

Ads about education too hot for B.C. authorities Jul 14, 2009 MINDELLE JACOBS SUN MEDIA http://www.winnipegsun.com/comment/columnists/mindelle_jacobs/2009/07/14/10124186-sun.html

Understanding atheism may break down prejudices

July 11, 2009 DAVID BRANDOW Guelph Mercury http://news.guelphmercury.com/Life/article/507525

Canadians shouldn’t be in any hurry to ban the burka

July 14, 2009 Janet Keeping Guelph Mercury http://news.guelphmercury.com/Opinions/article/508553

Gay altar server contests firing

Human rights tribunal asked to intervene July 14, 2009 Charles Lewis National Post http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1787590

Sudanese journalist faces 40 lashes for wearing ‘indecent’ clothing

July 14, 2009 Agence France-Presse http://www.nationalpost.com/related/topics/story.html?id=1787701

Politics, religion don’t mix

July 14, 2009 PETER T. SMITH Telegraph-Journal http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/opinion/article/728039

Muslims fight for the right burial rites

Two groups seek land for new cemetery Jul 15, 2009 Noor Javed Toronto Star http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/666370

Vatican finally gives Harry Potter its blessing

July 14, 2009 Reuters http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/holy-post/archive/2009/07/14/vatican-finally-gives-harry-potter-its-blessing.aspx

Episcopal Church to end gay bishop ban

July 15, 2009 Agence France-Presse http://www.nationalpost.com/related/topics/story.html?id=1791109

Gay marriage is OK (Jesus says so)

July 14, 2009 Yoni Goldstein National Post http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/07/14/yoni-goldstein-gay-marriage-is-ok-jesus-says-so.aspx

Canadian jailed for supporting al-Qaeda

Preached jihad, trained at bin Laden’s camp, U. S. says July 10, 2009 Stewart Bell National Post http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1776107

Wavering on the wafer

July 11, 2009 The Ottawa Citizen http://www.ottawacitizen.com/life/Wavering+wafer/1780584/story.html

Shades of my Slippergate in Harper’s Wafergate

July 11, 2009 JOSH FREED The Gazette http://www.montrealgazette.com/Shades+Slippergate+Harper+Wafergate/1780313/story.html

Harper responds to Wafergate

July 10, 2009 Charles Lewis National Post http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/holy-post/archive/2009/07/10/charles-lewis-harper-responds-to-wafergate.aspx

Why all the fuss?

Stephen Harper committed a faux pas at funeral service for former governor-general Romeo LeBlanc. But Catholic clergy should lighten up July 10, 2009 Barbara Yaffe Vancouver Sun http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/fuss/1778512/story.html

Wafergate? Hardly

PM’s conduct during Catholic funeral much ado about nothing Jul 10, 2009 CONNIE WOODCOCK Edmonton Sun http://www.edmontonsun.com/comment/2009/07/10/10084296-sun.html

How to avoid a Wafergate

Heeding a few words of advice – especially for those of us attending Catholic weddings this summer – could spare you the sacrilegious mess Prime Minister Stephen Harper found himself in this week Jul 9, 2009 Jennifer Yang Globe and […]

Our appalling ignorance of matters Muslim

Jul 12, 2009 Haroon Siddiqui Toronto Star http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/664421

Top court strikes down bus ad ban

Ruling on B.C. Transit refusal to run political ads during 2005 election watched closely by cities in battle over atheist ads Jul 10, 2009 THE CANADIAN PRESS http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/663948

Harper and family meet with Pope

July 11, 2009 Peter O’Neil Canwest News http://www.nationalpost.com/related/topics/story.html?id=1782386

Unscientific America and the ‘New’ Atheists

Science is a sublimely human activity and a central part of every culture on earth that aspires to be something more than a collection of dirt-grubbing subsistence breeders. Jul 11, 2009 PZ Myers Butterfies and Wheels http://www.butterfliesandwheels.com/articleprint.php?num=411

Collins gets panned almost everywhere

July 11, 2009 PZ Myers Pharyngula http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/07/collins_gets_panned_almost_eve.php