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John G. Stackhouse Jr. examined evangelicalism in Canada for a 1994 Christianity Today article, "Confronting Canada's Secular Slide | Why Canadian evangelicals thrive in a culture often indifferent to religious faith."

Previous Christianity Today stories about Canada include:

Editorial: Bigotry Up North | An evangelical's faith generated shrill criticism in a nation known for its tolerance. (Jan. 2, 2001)

Liberals Sweep Canadian Elections | After a swift campaign of personal attacks, Canada settles in for a long winter of discontent. (Nov. 28, 2000)

Weblog: Great White North Edition | From the Supreme Court to Parliament, Canada is a hotbed of religious controversy these days. (Nov. 21, 2000)

Pentecostal Shakes up Canadian Politics | Stockwell Day, leader of Canadian Alliance, wins House of Commons seat. (Sept. 9, 2000)

Lawsuits Force Anglicans to Cut Staff and Programs | Abuse allegations cause the Anglican Church of Canada to scale back church support and overseas ministries. (Aug. 25, 2000)

Canada Meeting Gives New Hope for Unity Between Anglicans and Catholics | Churches come closer together, but not close enough to share Eucharist. (May 26, 2000)

Arctic's Anglican Bishop Looks for Priests to Brave the Cold | Nine vacancies in Anglican Communion's largest diocesan territory, but no prospects. (Jan. 27, 2000)

ChristianWeek and B.C. Christian News are two excellent Canadian newspapers that update their sites weekly. While the former offers a more national flavor, the latter has a Weblog-like "news roundup" with plenty of links.

Classical Anglican Net News is a Weblog that focuses heavily on tensions within Anglicanism, but also reveals the Canadianism of its author. Monday's listing, for example, contained this item:

CANADIAN GOV'T controversy echoes election-time anti-Christian slurs; barbs fly back and forth in the House of Parliament over politically-correct remarks by MP Hedy Fry, and later by MP Sheila Copps; "Oh, well then. Thank goodness she wasn't insulting a member of another faith. Insulting Christians is just one of those very important Liberal values." In November, 2000— Christians and religious leaders were deeply offended by pre-election attacks on religion, and versus conservative Christianity in a supposedly 'tolerant' and 'multi-cultural' Canada. The offending statement by Hedy Fry, the Liberal MP for Vancouver Centre came just after her office recently released a booklet that described 'ridiculing religion' as a form of violence. Shame!

More articles and resources about Stockwell Day and his party are available from Yahoo's full coverage area.

If you're an American (or Canadian) who hasn't seen the famous Molson ad debunking Americans' myths about Canadians, become enlightened.

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April 2 2001, Vol. 45, No. 5