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Christian candidates tiptoe through the political minefields
Frank Luellau picked his words carefully, but in the end it didn't really matter. As the federal election campaign ground through its third week, the former director of the Canadian Council of Christian Charities was feeling the political heat on the hustings as the Conservative Party of Canada candidate in Kitchener-Conestoga...More

Where is the best Christian workplace?
ELMIRA, ON-The Canadian Council of Christian Charities (CCCC) is bringing a Christian workplace contest to Canada. The competition is based on a survey administered by the U.S.-based Best Christian Workplace Institute (BCWI), which aims to "help Christian workplaces set the standard to be the best places to work in the world."...More

B.C. urged to charge polygamists
CRESTON, BC-Seven women have taken their fight against polygamy and the politicians who do nothing about it to the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal. In a complaint filed with the tribunal in late May, the complainants allege the Bountiful commune near Creston is part of a polygamist network in which women and children are Òregarded as chattels."...More

Revival comes to the Arctic
IQALUIT, NU-Joe Pal has witnessed first-hand what most Christians seem to know little or nothing about-the charismatic revival that is underway in Canada's far north. After learning about what was going on there through his involvement with Prayer Canada, Pal knew he had to go and see it for himself. "I wanted to be around where the glory of God is coming down-and so I went there, and that's what I saw," he says...More

Brantford pharmacy offers medicine for body and soul
BRANTFORD, ON-When Federal Health Minister Pierre Pettigrew announced recently that Health Canada is moving forward with allowing nationwide access to the "morning after" pill without a doctor's prescription, Philip Smith didn't immediately make plans to stock his shelves with the so-called emergency contraceptive...More