Things you probably didn't know.State An Ottawa government report for policy-makers and deputy ministers (Growth...in a Global World) issued February 1999 notes on Population Growth: "Canada's baby boom is ageing and birth rates remain low. The slowing of Canada's population growth has major implications for economic growth. The ageing of the population has profound consequences for the growth of government spending Government spending or government expenditure consists of government purchases, which can be financed by seigniorage, taxes, or government borrowing. It is considered to be one of the major components of gross domestic product. , particularly on health and pensions, that need to be explored." As of May 7, 1999, the Family Coalition Party of Ontario The Family Coalition Party is a small political party in Ontario, Canada that promotes a socially conservative ideology. It was formed in 1987 by members of the pro-life organization Campaign Life Coalition, and has fielded candidates in every provincial election since then. had 20 candidates nominated for the June 3 Ontario election. They hope to get 20 more. Lucky those ridings where there is an FCP (Fibre Channel Protocol) See Fibre Channel. FCP - Flat Concurrent Prolog. ["Design and Implementation of Flat Concurrent Prolog", C. Mierowsky, TR CS84-21 Weizmann Inst, Dec 1984]. candidate. There, at least, one can vote without having to check one's conscience in the closet first. Society The Public Service Alliance of Canada The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) is one of Canada’s largest national labour unions, with members in every province and territory. In fact, it is the biggest union in the Canadian Federal Public Sector. PSAC members also work abroad in embassies and consulates. (PSAC PSAC Public Service Alliance of Canada PSAC Petroleum Services Association of Canada PSAC Plan for Software Aspects of Certification PSAC President's Scientific Advisory Committee PSAC Prospective Students Advisory Committee ) has rebuked union member Robert Davies of Nova Scotia for objecting to a change in the clause "marriage leave with pay" to "leave for spousal union," which is to cover homosexual "marriages." Union president Darryl Bean ordered him to change his position! Mr. Davies: No thank you. They did threaten to remove him from the union's bargaining team. On that note Mr. Davies published his story in the National Post. Church On May 23 the first five seminarians to graduate from the St. Petersburg seminary will be ordained or·dain tr.v. or·dained, or·dain·ing, or·dains 1. a. To invest with ministerial or priestly authority; confer holy orders on. b. To authorize as a rabbi. 2. . They will be the first Russian Catholic priests since the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 plunged the country into utter darkness. The independent Catholic quarterly newspaper The Trumpet of Abbotsford, BC, has sounded the trumpet for the last time with its summer 1999 edition. After twelve years of feisty journalism, its editors are taking a well-deserved holiday. Cardinal Josef Ratzinger celebrated the Tridentine Mass with 350 faithful in Weimar, formerly East Germany. The old Latin-language Mass was replaced by the Mass in the vernacular in 1969 but may still be celebrated with episcopal permission. In his autobiography The Salt of the Earth (1997) the Cardinal criticized the manner of the post Vatican Council changeover as having done "extremely serious damage" to the Church, especially by the abrupt break in the theology of the Mass which often was not carried over into the new liturgy with its tendentious ten·den·tious also ten·den·cious adj. Marked by a strong implicit point of view; partisan: a tendentious account of the recent elections. and inaccurate translations from the Latin. |
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