Dear Editor:
Re “Time for prayer in the Legislature to bow out.” (May 12).
All the commotion over the proposed elimination of the Lord’s Prayer in the Ontario Legislature is nothing more than a tempest in a thimble. I suspect that the majority of Ontarians don’t care what prayer, if any, is used. In our multi-religious [...]

Dear Editor:
We were dismayed to read the article in the Canada Free Press on February 4, 2008 entitled “Hand washing and the Islamic Medical Association”.
The Islamic Medical Association Medical of North America, which we represent, is independent of and is not affiliated with the Islamic Medical Association in the United Kingdom. As Muslims [...]

Dear Editor:
Wikipedia: Family Day is the name of a public holiday in South Africa, in the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Ontario and Saskatchewan, and (as “Family & Community Day”) in the Australian Capital Territory. In Ontario, Family Day falls on the third Monday of February, which is today
I wish you the best [...]

Dear Editor:
RE: Anti-Mormon Bigotry Tainting Republican Votes?

Great article because it’s true! Mike Huckabee is a bigot and you hit the nail on the head for why he is staying in the race. Everyone but the uber-evangelicals that feel the same as he does know that is his strategy and it is such [...]

Dear Editor:
Re: Anti-Mormon Bigotry Tainting Republican Votes?
Thank you so much for getting it right.
Scott

Dear Editor:
Every Canadian should join B’nai Brith Canada and the Canadian Jewish Congress in thanking our government for the courage to once again take a principled stand in refusing to attend the farcical Durban II UN racism conference in South Africa in 2009. The 2001 conference did little more than provide a platform for the [...]

Dear Editor
Re: CFP: Pro-Life Activists Shut Down Senator Obama Rally
I attended the Barack Obama rally on Mon. Jan. 7, 2008 at the Rochester Opera House in Rochester, NH. In no way could the efforts of the “pro-life” protestors be described as shutting down the rally.
These people merely caused a brief few [...]

Dear Editor:
I have been reading for two days on the rapid population explosion of Muslims in Europe and our neighbor, Canada.
The rapid increases are frightening when you consider 40 to 46 percent of these young people between the ages of 18 to 26 still believe the punishment for being a Christian should be [...]

WHEN THE CAROLS FADE
CHRISTMAS, ONCE AGAIN, IS HERE
BRINGING TIDINGS OF GOODWILL
BUT WHEN THE CAROLS FADE AWAY
THE BATTERED ONES ARE WITH US
STILL
THEY ROAM THE COLD AND FRIENDLESS
STREETS
SEARCHING FOR A GRAIN OF CHEER
REFLECTED IN THEIR HOPELESS EYES
ARE ALL THE THINGS WE HATE AND FEAR
HOMELESS AND ABANDONED
THEY’RE SOCIETY’S RESIDUE
BUT IF YOU LOOK A LITTLE CLOSER
YOU’LL SEE SOMEONE JUST [...]

JOYOUS NOEL
SING A SONG OF CHRISTMAS
THE PUDDING’S IN THE POT
THE TREE IS TRIMMED
THE WREATH IS HUNG
AND THE PUNCH IS PIPING HOT
SING A SONG OF CHRISTMAS
THE KIDS ARE TUCKED IN BED
THEY’VE PUT OUT MILK AND COOKIES
AND ALL THEIR PRAYERS ARE SAID
SING A SONG OF CHRISTMAS
FOR THESE GIFTS FROM ABOVE
FAITH AND HOPE AND CHARITY
TOLERANCE AND LOVE.
WILLIAM BEDFORD