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The young pastor drove his car to work on Tuesday morning. He was angry. He had recently been told that his car would need expensive repairs. He had a small congregation, a slim budget and a modest salary. In driving to work he had encountered a rude driver who roared past him at high speed. This was near a school zone. This too made him angry. He arrived at his church office to discover there was a leak in the basement. Valuable furniture, carpeting and other church property was ruined. Three ... Read More..

General Rick Hillier, Canada’s former chief of defence staff and former top soldier has just released his memoirs entitled "A Soldier First: Bullets, Bureaucrats and the Politics of War." In his book General Hillier takes dead aim at the bureaucracies both in Canada and NATO, criticising them for their preoccupation with internal issues and infighting and their failure to give priority attention to the real war in Afghanistan where Canadian soldiers were fighting and dying. This is not unlike t... Read More..