A Christian think tank says Canada’s flagship disability benefit falls far short of lifting people with disabilities out of poverty, warning that the program’s size, eligibility rules and provincial clawbacks risk leaving millions no better off than before. In a report released Jan. 6, Cardus, a nonpartisan research organization based in Ontario, said the Canada Disability Benefit is only a fraction of what is needed to close the poverty gap for Canadians with disabilities.
CRAWFORD, Texas (BP)--Good evening. I appreciate you giving me a few minutes of your time tonight so I can discuss with you a complex and difficult issue, an issue that is one of the most profound of our time.
JACKSON, Tenn. (BP)--In response to President Bush's announcement Aug. 9 to allow limited federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, medical ethicist E. David Cook of Oxford University said he is pleased but concerned about the U.S. leader's pronouncement.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--President Bush's decision to allow federal funding for limited embryonic stem cell research was delivered in a "statesman"-like fashion and contained much that the pro-life community can applaud, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President R. Albert Mohler Jr. said on CNN's "Larry King Live" Aug. 9.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--I am deeply disappointed that the president has decided to federally fund embryonic stem cell research on the tissue obtained from already aborted babies. I fear that this first halting step in the direction of embryonic stem cell research will build pressure to cross the important moral barrier…
WASHINGTON (BP)--"As a result of private research, more than 60 genetically diverse stem cell lines already exist. ... I have concluded that we should allow federal funds to be used for research on these existing stem cell lines where the life and death decision has already been made. ... This…
MARSHALL, Texas (BP)--As he watched his first football team at East Texas Baptist University go through its 10-game schedule last season, head coach Ralph Harris kept telling himself two things: stay positive and stay focused.
DALLAS (BP)--Baylor's women's volleyball team departed from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Monday morning, bound for the land of sushi and Fuji. Coming off a 16-15 season and a seventh-place finish in the rigorous Big 12 Conference, the Bears will spend the next two weeks training in Japan in preparation for…
PINEVILLE, La. (BP)--Louisiana College head football coach Marty Secord called it a vacation, a 32-year vacation during which the Wildcat football program was dormant. And last year, one thing Secord discovered while heading up Louisiana's first football team since 1968 was that it's tough to come back from a holiday.
FLORIANOPOLIS, Brazil (BP)--Six hundred quarts of Brunswick stew: $2500. Five portable basketball goals: $700. Price airlines wanted to carry basketball goals: $1,500. Thirteen Virginia Baptists sharing the message of Christ in Florianopolis, Brazil: priceless.
