Via Strongworld and MkBraaten we find that Rabble.ca might be funded by taxpayers (that’s you):

The Catholic Civil Rights League today called on Aileen Carroll, Minister of International Cooperation, to review the funding relationship between CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency) and rabble.ca, an e-zine whose current edition features a strongly anti-Catholic cartoon caricature of Pope Benedict XVI. In the animated cartoon, the pope repeatedly marches to a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary, then gives a Nazi salute with the caption “Heil Mary.”

Rabble.ca, published by well-known Canadian feminist Judy Rebick, is a project of Alternatives, a Montreal-based NGO funded by CIDA. One World Canada, also a project of Alternatives, is a partner of Rabble. However circuitous the route, at least some taxpayers’ money appears to be going to this publication.

In its letter to Mrs. Carroll, CCRL stated, “The league does not believe that any public money should be directed to a publication that freely insults Catholics, or indeed any other identifiable group. No matter how small the amount involved may be, it is unacceptable. We urge you to review this funding relationship.”

To express your concerns to Minister Carroll email: carroa@parl.gc.ca

I went over to rabble.ca’s site to see if there was any mention of this. Of course there wasn’t (at least on the front page) however I did find some information about “one world“. Basically it seems to be a collection of socialist organizations who masquerade as do-gooders: Unions, environmental groups, the Council of Canadians, a couple of rape crisis centers who are “feminist collectives” yada yada yada.

But here’s the interesting part:

OneWorld will not approve partnership applications from the following:

* organizations whose activities significantly contravene OneWorld’s objectives of promoting human rights and sustainable development;
* organizations directly or indirectly involved in the use of violence;
* organizations advocating intolerance on the grounds of ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religion; and
* political parties.

Commercial organizations are not specifically excluded, but will be required to demonstrate how their activities will further the shared aims of OneWorld.

OneWorld may also refuse applications on the basis of editorial judgements, including the quality, timeliness, relevance or presentation of information on a prospective partners’ site.

Did you catch that part that I bolded? How is Rabble.ca still a partner if they posted that anti-Catholic cartoon? Surely that is religious intolerance?

I say we start calling/emailing One World to demand to know why an organization that practices religious intolerance is allowed to be a partner.

Here’s the contact info:

OneWorld.ca
3720 Parc Ave. Suite 300
Montréal, Québec
H2X 2J1
Canada
tel: 1.514.982.6606
fax: 1.514.982.6122
e-mail: canada@oneworld.net

Now get busy minions.

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