Canada – Feds denied summer job grants to 26 groups over abortion rights issue

Feds denied summer job grants to 26 groups over abortion rights issue

JOANNA SMITH, OTTAWA
THE CANADIAN PRESS
AUGUST 29, 2019

The Liberal government denied youth summer job grants to about two dozen organizations this year because officials felt they were trying to weaken or limit access to abortion or sexual and reproductive health services.

Employment and Social Development Canada said it received 39,933 for the Canada Summer Jobs program this year, with only 403 of them being deemed ineligible for the funding under new rules that say the money cannot be used to undermine human rights.

Continued: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-feds-denied-summer-job-grants-to-26-groups-over-abortion-rights-issue/

Canada’s marginal ‘Christian right’

Canada’s marginal ‘Christian right’

August 11, 2019
Jonathan Malloy

The political power of the American Christian right naturally leads to interest and speculation about the influence of similar groups in Canada. But social conservatives and evangelical Christians are a marginal force in Canadian politics, even in the Conservative party. And research finds their dynamics here are quite different than in the United States.

Is there a Canadian Christian right at all? Yes and no.

Continued: https://theconversation.com/canadas-marginal-christian-right-121024