three wise monkeys

Apr 09, 2008 04:30 AM
Antonia Zerbisias

If you think that some of the Bush administration’s conservative politics – and Orwellian moves – in the U.S. can’t affect Canada, then you have some research to do.

Ten days ago at the University of California in San Francisco, librarian Gloria Won was running through POPLINE (POPulation information onLINE), billed as “the world’s largest database on reproductive health.” Maintained by Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University, and freely available to medical schools, health organizations and the public, it is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
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Creation museum pushes ‘true history’
By Matthew Wells
BBC News, Kentucky

A new hi-tech temple to fundamentalist Christianity is due to open in the heart of Middle America next May, aiming to provide the grandest riposte yet to Darwinian evolutionary theory.
Staff and supporters of the Answers in Genesis organisation call it the Creation Museum.

But secular scientists would take issue with the use of either word to describe the almost completed building that stands just a few miles west of Cincinnati, on the borders of Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana.
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Tehran trip dismays colleagues
St. Francis Xavier prof presented paper at forum attended by Holocaust deniers
Dec. 14, 2006. 06:04 AM
MICHELE HENRY
STAFF REPORTER

Colleagues of a Canadian professor who spoke at a widely condemned conference in Tehran this week are outraged and dismayed by his presence at the event, which provided an open forum for Holocaust deniers.

Samuel Kalman, an assistant professor of European history at St. Francis Xavier University, was still reeling yesterday from the news that Shiraz Dossa, a political science professor at the Nova Scotia institution, attended the conference called “Review of the Holocaust: Global Vision,” which attracted the likes of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
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