Here is a list of relief agencies working feverishly to save hurricane victims as we speak. Please help them to help those who need it.

American Red Cross, 800-HELP-NOW (435-7669)
America’s Second Harvest, 800-344-8070
Christian Disaster Response, 941-956-5183 or 941-551-9554
Lutheran Disaster Response, 800-638-3522
Christian Reformed World Relief Committee, 800-848-5818
Salvation Army, 800-SAL-ARMY (725-2769)
Nazarene Disaster Response, 888-256-5886

For a more comprehensive list [...]

Blogging Tories member Stephen Taylor is working on yet another handy tool he calls the MP Blog Tracker.

I’ve been working on a new tool that ranks Canadian MPs by the buzz that they’ve generated in the blogosphere.Technorati is a website that tracks over 16.2 million blogs (at the time of this writing). The difference between [...]

Yet another great opinion piece from Jeff Niederhoffer.
MPI SERVING AS PIGGY BANK FOR DOER GOVERNMENTIn the wake of media reports a month ago, Manitoba motorists undoubtedly were interested to learn that the Doer government is using Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI) premiums to pay for non-MPI programs and to pay the salaries of non-MPI bureaucrats.
Our Premier [...]

An excerpt of a piece by Prof Paul C Merkley which originally appeared in Israpundit.
WHAT A DIFFERENCE A YEAR MAKES: Why has George W. Bush gone wobbly about rewarding Palestinian terrorism?Anyone who has ever published a book about Israel’s recent history soon learns that he has done a foolhardy thing, for Israel lives history at [...]

You really have to wonder about these people.
Ulema in Saudia Arabia have issued a fatwa (religious decree) declaring football an un-Islamic sport, and have urged the youth to quit it immediately, BBC radio reported on Saturday.According to the report, the clerics urged the youth to indulge in jihad and other constructive activities that could help [...]

I had promised myself that I wasn’t going to write anything more on the CBC lockout then I came across a couple of interesting items. According to a recent survey by Decima Research Canadians don’t seem especially affected by or interested in the labour disruption.
Most people didn’t notice the on-air disruption caused when 5,500 CBC [...]

Has Paul Martin finally lost his mind? His choice for GG was bad enough now he has gone and named Francis Fox to the Senate. For those of you too young to remember the name, he was a Cabinet Minister in Trudeau’s regime who was forced out after it was revealed he lied on a [...]

As Winnipeg city council wrestles with the idea of privatizing its garbage collection service city-wide, I’m amused at how some in the media, who have already made a decision, will go to great lengths to find people to corroborate their position.
I am referring to Ross Romaniuk of the Winnipeg Sun. After reading his op-ed from [...]

Local news alert: 65-year-old Margaret Krupka had stopped to pick up a few items at a neighbourhood store including candy for her grandchildren. She never made it. She was the victim of a hit-and-run.
Witnesses told police Krupka was crossing Henderson westbound at Sutton and two southbound vehicles side-by-side in separate lanes had slowed down to [...]

Fellow Blogging Tories member Stephen Taylor reminds us that a few more podcasts are now available from Peter Jaworski’s Liberty Summer Seminar. Please update your Blogging Tories podcast feed if you haven’t already done so.
Just another reason why the Blogging Tories continue to be “The envy of the copycats”…