Fundamental Freedoms to the Back of the Bus

Fundamental Freedoms to the Back of the Bus

Canadians will be surprised to hear their country does not actually guarantee fundamental liberties like freedom of speech, freedom of association, and freedom of religion. My country, after all, repatriated its constitution from Great Britain in 1982 and took the opportunity to have Westminster add a Charter of Rights of Freedoms, which certainly seems to guarantee these basic rights.

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Armageddon in the Auld Sod The Conflict Between Neo-Paganism & Conservative Catholicism in Modern Ireland

Armageddon in the Auld Sod  The Conflict Between Neo-Paganism &  Conservative Catholicism in Modern Ireland

It was once known as the Isle of Saints and scholars, a title it proudly held for 1,500 years. But now Ireland has embraced a different kind of Pride: the rainbow-flag waving, Shout-Your-Abortion kind. And the learned Holy men have been replaced by witches’n’warlocks who would not look out of place in a 1970s Hammer House of Horror movie – though it would be a Hate Crime to say so.

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