LifeSiteNews reported on Saturday’s “Stop bullying Christians” rallyin Toronto where over 600 participants prayed, listened, waved signs, danced and sang hymns in Toronto’s Dundas Square before marching to City Hall to protest what they say is the city’s blatant discrimination against Christians. Read more
Documents obtained by Postmedia News show that as of Nov. 19, Citizenship and Immigration Canada had nearly 9,500 Syrian refugee applications in the queue. Of those, about 7,700 were applications from private sponsors such as families and church groups. The government had sponsored most of the other 1,800. Read more
The frustrated broker couldn’t understand why the buyer was being so intractable. The Chinese businessman explained that he was buying the apartment for his daughter to live in while she attended school and he insisted on strictly adhering to the budget he had set.
“Anything over $5-million, I’m afraid it will go to her head,” he said.
It seems that the Yonge-Dundas Square in Toronto is for everyone other than Christians.
They applied for their usual August date at the Square for 2016 but it was denied. Why? Natalie Belman, the Manager of Events for Yonge-Dundas Square, told VOTN that the singing by various Christian groups this last August amounted to “proselytizing.”
Is that truly so? Or, rather, is it a squelching of the Charter’s promise to protect religion and religious expression?
Sheila Gunn Reid of TheRebel.Media reports, the City of Toronto is refusing to grant a permit for a Christian music festival called the Voices of the Nations to use Younge-Dundas Square.
Meanwhile, from a Muslim kiosk in Toronto, Islamicists are free to hand out copies of the Koran to passers by.
The City of Toronto has just refused to grant a Christian group a permit to use a prominent downtown square for its annual musical festival next year, all because — get this — the performers sing the name of Jesus.
This is nothing more than blatant discrimination against Christians. Can you imagine the City Official saying something like this to a Muslim or Jewish group and getting away with it?
This City Official may even be found to be violating the province’s Human Rights Code for refusing a facility to an identifiable group because of their religious beliefs.
Mayor John Tory and the City of Toronto need to hear that Christians have as much right to be in public spaces as anybody else. It’s time to join together and urge the mayor and the city to reverse this outrageous decision. Read more
Kat Armstrong is not ready to hunt for a new rental home. She and her husband Matthew moved their family into their current Toronto apartment less than two years ago. Plus, she recently gave birth to their third child. But her landlord has just sold their building so …