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WINNIPEG, MB–For 12 to 14 days at a time, Mimi didn’t brush her teeth, barely ate and survived on a steady diet of sex and crack cocaine. “I would stand on the street corner, make my money, go into the…Read More→
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It’s a tragic story. Anne Klassen, now 56, has come forward with an account of terrible sexual abuse at the hands of her father throughout her childhood. The native of Virgil, Ontario says the church her family attended, then called…Read More→
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It’s a tragic story. Anne Klassen, now 56, has come forward with an account of terrible sexual abuse at the hands of her father throughout her childhood. The native of Virgil, Ontario says the church her family attended, then called…Read More→
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As Canada settles into a recession, governments are begging their citizens to spend and their banks to lend. So Canadians can’t be blamed for wondering whether they should be sitting on their wallets or spending like mad to counteract the…Read More→
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As Canada settles into a recession, governments are begging their citizens to spend and their banks to lend. So Canadians can’t be blamed for wondering whether they should be sitting on their wallets or spending like mad to counteract the…Read More→
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CALGARY, AB–If we don’t give this tar baby a critical glance before shaking its hand, we may find ourselves more stuck than Brer Rabbit. That’s what John Hiemstra, a politics professor at The King’s University College believes after spending a…Read More→
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WINNIPEG, MB–Starvation is a recurring nightmare in Zemedkun Baykeda Habtyimer’s homeland, Ethiopia. He recalls the day a desperate mother in a village he was visiting handed him her starving son: “I was not even ready to receive that child. I…Read More→
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WINNIPEG, MB—The nights Kim doesn’t make it into the line-up outside Siloam Mission early enough to score a bed he spends pacing up and down Portage Avenue. It’s too dangerous to sleep, he says. Once, while warming up in a…Read More→
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Rather than raising alarmist fears, the current financial crisis should remind us of the difference between “needs” and “wants” Christian financial experts advise. Bill and Dolores Block watched with growing “consternation” as their investments dropped by 25 per cent in…Read More→
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WINNIPEG, MB—Margaret Visser has a reputation for coaxing startling revelations from such mundanities as the evolution of the flight attendant, the grooming of beards, the origins of avocados and what table manners have to do with the Eucharist. Now she…Read More→