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The May 6 Toronto Star editorial says Prime Minister Jean Chretien spoke at a meeting of 14 leaders of centre-left governments, in Berlin last Saturday, congratulating himself on Canada’s reputation as a socially progressive country.  “‘I’m here because many of our ideas in Canada make President Clinton jealous of us,’ Chretien declared, pointing to medicare, gun control,  capital punishment and abortion as proof that Canada is more socially advanced than the United States.” – says the Star editorial.  (Toronto Star, May 6, 2000 pg. A22)

New York Post columnist Rod Dreher points out that disagreeing with the pro-homosexual agenda is not the same as hating homosexuals. Dr. Laura commended the clarity of this article on her show.

Over 7000 people from many denominations came together to pray and praise God at the Canadian Prayer Assembly. On the evening of May 26, people streamed through the gates of the football stadium in Ottawa’s Lansdowne Park to celebrate the diversity and calling of the Church in Canada’s cultural and linguistic groups.

A Toledo Ohio library has rejected a book which exposes Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger for the racist eugenicist she was. The book, George Grant’s “Killer Angel”, is available online.

The New York Times reported June 3 that Italy’s Prime Minister Giuliano Amato has called the scheduling of the gay pride event in Rome during the Jubilee “inopportune.” Rome’s mayor Francesco Rutelli, who first welcomed the World Pride event, withdrew the city’s financial support but has not banned it.  Meanwhile cabinet official Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio, Italy’s   minister of agricultural policy, said in the current issue of the weekly magazine Panorama that he is bisexual and supported the Gay event.