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Kathy Shaidle
Kathy Shaidle (7 May 1964 – 9 January 2021) was a Canadian author, columnist, poet and blogger. A self-described "anarcho-peacenik" in the early years of her writing career, she moved to a conservative, Catholic Church in Canada, Roman Catholic position following the September 11 attacks, and entered the public eye as the author of the popular Relapsed Catholic blog. Citing some points of friction with Catholicism, Shaidle launched her own blog in 2007 called FiveFeetofFury. Her views on Islam, political correctness, freedom of speech, and other issues ignited controversy. Literary career Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Hamilton, Ontario, Shaidle studied at Sheridan College. Beginning in the mid-1980s she worked in Toronto, eventually taking up a post at the ''Catholic New Times'' magazine. In 1991, she left the publication to write full-time on government grants, only to discover a few weeks later that she had developed lupus erythematosus. Her four-year illness provided the subje ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamilton, Ontario
Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Ontario. Hamilton has a 2021 Canadian census, population of 569,353 (2021), and its Census Metropolitan Area, census metropolitan area, which encompasses Burlington, Ontario, Burlington and Grimsby, Ontario, Grimsby, has a population of 785,184. The city is situated approximately southwest of Toronto in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA). Conceived by George Hamilton (city founder), George Hamilton when he purchased the James Durand, Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, the town of Hamilton became the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe. On January 1, 2001, the current boundaries of Hamilton were created through the Merger (politics), amalgamation of the original city with other municipalities of the Regional Municipality of Hamilton–Wentworth. Residents of the city are known as Hamiltonian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendy McGrath
Wendy McGrath is a Canadian poet and novelist. She was the inaugural winner of the $50,000 Prairie Grindstone Prize (2023-2024). Career McGrath's most recent poetry collection ''The Beauty of Vultures'' (NeWest Press 2025) is inspired by and includes the bird and wildlife photography of musician and photographer Danny Miles. ''Broke City'' (NeWest Press 2019) is the final novel in McGrath's Santa Rosa Trilogy. The second novel in the trilogy, ''North East'' (NeWest Press 2014) was nominated for the Georges Bugnet Prize for Fiction. The Santa Rosa Trilogy is set primarily in Edmonton, Alberta circa 1960s. ''Santa Rosa,'' the first book in the series, was nominated for the 2012 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize. McGrath collaborated with musician/producer Sascha Liebrand on the album "Before We Knew" (Entity Records 2019)--a spoken word collection set to Liebrand's music/arrangements. McGrath released the EP ''BOX'' (spring 2017) with the group Quarto & Sound—made up of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Examiner
Examiner or The Examiner may refer to: Occupations * Bank examiner, a kind of auditor * Examiner (Roman Catholicism), a type of office in the Roman Catholic Church * Examinership, a concept in Irish law * Medical examiner * Patent examiner * Trademark examiner, an attorney employed by a government entity Newspapers Australia * ''The Examiner'' (Kiama, New South Wales), a newspaper published in Kiama, New South Wales, Australia * ''The Examiner'' (Perth), a weekly newspaper published in two editions in south-eastern Perth, Western Australia * ''The Examiner'' (Tasmania), a daily paper in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia * '' The Daily Examiner'', local newspaper in Grafton, New South Wales, Australia Canada * '' Westmount Examiner'', a newspaper in Westmount, Quebec * ''The Examiner'' (Toronto), a newspaper founded by Francis Hincks * '' Barrie Examiner'', a newspaper in Barrie, Ontario, 1864–2017 United Kingdom * ''The Examiner'' (1710–1714), an early 18th-century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pajamas Media
PJ Media, originally known as Pajamas Media, is an American right-wing subscription-based commentary website. It was founded in 2004, with its majority owner being software entrepreneur, billionaire and angel investor Aubrey Chernick, founder of Candle Corporation (acquired by IBM). Salem Media Group acquired the company in March 2019. PJ Media also operated the online television and video network PJTV, which ceased operations on May 11, 2016. History PJ Media was founded as Pajamas Media in 2004 by Charles Johnson, the blogger behind Little Green Footballs, and screenwriter and producer Roger L. Simon, after Johnson's contribution to the Killian documents controversy investigation in 2004, in which he helped lead to the retraction of a ''60 Minutes'' story critical of President George W. Bush's service in the Air National Guard and Dan Rather's resignation from CBS News. Johnson and Simon set out to challenge the mainstream media with a network of citizen-journalists. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FrontPage Magazine
''FrontPage Magazine'', also known as ''FrontPageMag.com'', is an American right-wing, anti-Islam political website edited by David Horowitz and published by the David Horowitz Freedom Center. The site has also been described by scholars and writers as far-right and Islamophobic. Content ''FrontPage Magazine'' is a conservative journal of news and political commentary originally published under the auspices of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, later called the David Horowitz Freedom Center. The website has published commentary advancing the Eurabia conspiracy theory, and has been described as a part of the counter-jihad Counter-jihad (also known as the counter-jihad movement) is a self-titled Islamophobia, anti-Muslim political movement loosely consisting of authors, bloggers, think tanks, demonstrators, and other activists across the Western world. Proponents are ... movement. The website is edited by Jamie Glazov, considered a "key figure in the transnational ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Post
The ''National Post'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet newspaper and the flagship publication of the American-owned Postmedia Network. It is published Mondays through Saturdays, with Monday released as a digital e-edition only."National Post to eliminate Monday print edition" . The Canadian Press. June 19, 2017. Retrieved June 28, 2017. The newspaper is distributed in the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, Alberta and British Columbia. Weekend editions of the newspaper are also distributed in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The newspaper was founded in 1998 by Conrad Black in an attempt to compete with ''The Globe and Mail''. In 2001, CanWest completed its acquisition of the ''National Post''. In 2006, the newspaper ceased distribution in Atlantic Canada and the Canadian territo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ezra Levant
Ezra Isaac Levant (born February 20, 1972) is a Canadian media personality, political activist, writer, broadcaster, and former lawyer. Levant is the founder and former publisher of the conservative magazine, the'' Western Standard''. He is also the co-founder, owner, and CEO of the far-right media website '' Rebel News''. Levant has also worked as a columnist for Sun Media, and he hosted a daily program on the Sun News Network from the channel's inception in 2011 until its demise in 2015. Levant rose to prominence in 2006 after publishing the ''Jyllands-Posten'' Muhammad cartoons in the ''Western Standard'', which led to a protracted legal battle with the Alberta Human Rights Commission regarding hate speech legislation and freedom of speech. The complaint against Levant was ultimately withdrawn. In February 2015, Levant co-founded ''Rebel News'' with Brian Lilley; Lilley left ''Rebel News'' in 2017 citing lack of editorial standards. Under Levant, ''Rebel News'' has be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Warman
Richard Warman is an Ottawa-based lawyer who is active in human rights law. Warman worked for the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) from July 2002 until March 2004. He is best known as the primary instigator of actions related to Internet content under Section 13(1) of the Canadian Human Rights Act against people including white supremacists and neo-Nazis. Warman wrote a detailed report on Internet hate in Canada for B'nai B'rith's ''Annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents'', and has been the target of anti-Semitic smears himself, though he has testified in the past that he is not Jewish. He received the Saul Hayes Human Rights Award from the Canadian Jewish Congress in June 2007 for "distinguished service to the cause of human rights". Education Warman holds a Bachelor of Arts in Drama from Queen's University, a Bachelor of Law from the University of Windsor, and a Masters of Law (LLM 2004) from McGill University. Legal activism Human Rights Commissions Warman has initiat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Small Dead Animals
Small Dead Animals (SDA) is a Canadian blog, focusing largely on politics (Canadian, U.S., British and international) from a conservative perspective. Saskatchewan-based blogger Kate McMillan founded the blog and is the primary contributor. Small Dead Animals was voted Best Canadian Blog in the Weblog Awards for 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007. In 2008, SDA was narrowly voted Best Conservative Blog in North America over Ace of Spades HQ. Defamation In 2008, human rights lawyer Richard Warman sued McMillan, Ezra Levant, Kathy Shaidle and the ''National Post'' over links to comments criticizing him at a Canadian internet forum, freedominion.ca. The ''National Post'' settled with Warman soon after the suit was launched and, in June 2015, Shaidle, Levant and McMillan all settled in exchange for undisclosed amounts and the issuance of public retractions and apologies. McMillan posted the following apology on her blog: Memorable phrases The Libranos McMillan coined the phrase "The Librano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earth Day
Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First held on April 22, 1970, it now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally through earthday.org (formerly Earth Day Network) including 1 billion people in more than 193 countries. In 1969 at a UNESCO conference in San Francisco, peace activist John McConnell (peace activist), John McConnell proposed a day to honor the Earth and the concept of peace, to first be observed on March 21, 1970, the Spring (season)#Astronomical and solar reckoning, first day of spring in the northern hemisphere. This day of nature's equipoise was later sanctioned in a proclamation written by McConnell and signed by Secretary General U Thant at the United Nations. A month later, United States senator Gaylord Nelson proposed the idea to hold a nationwide environmental teach-in on April 22, 1970, and hired a young activist, Denis Hayes, to be the national coordinator. The name "Earth Day" wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Our Sunday Visitor
Our Sunday Visitor (OSV) is a Catholic publishing company in Huntington, Indiana, which prints the American national weekly newspaper of that name, as well as numerous Catholic periodicals, religious books, pamphlets, catechetical materials, inserts for parish bulletins and offertory envelopes, and offers an "Online Giving" system and "Faith in Action" websites for parishes. Founded in 1912 by Fr John F. Noll, the newspaper ''Our Sunday Visitor'' was the most popular Catholic newsweekly of the twentieth century. History John Francis Noll, later Bishop of Fort Wayne in Indiana, was a small town priest who, having grown weary of anti-Catholic literature, and especially a widely circulated anti-Catholic paper called ''The Menace,'' decided to print a parish bulletin. The first issue of ''Our Sunday Visitor'', numbering 35,000 copies, was dated May 5, 1912. A year later, the circulation of the paper had reached 160,000 copies, far beyond Noll's parish. Shortly after World W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is the Canadian Public broadcasting, public broadcaster for both radio and television. It is a Crown corporation that serves as the national public broadcaster, with its English-language and French-language service units known as CBC and Radio-Canada, respectively. Although some local stations in Canada predate its founding, the CBC is the oldest continually-existing broadcasting network in Canada. The CBC was established on November 2, 1936. The CBC operates four terrestrial radio networks: The English-language CBC Radio One and CBC Music, and the French-language Ici Radio-Canada Première and Ici Musique (international radio service Radio Canada International historically transmitted via shortwave radio, but since 2012 its content is only available as podcasts on its website). The CBC also operates two terrestrial television networks, the English-language CBC Television and the French-language Ici Radio-C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
