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Most Canadians are accepting of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's religious sign-off -- "God bless Canada" -- at the end of speeches, a new poll has found. According to an Ipsos Reid survey conducted for CanWest News Service/Global National, 65% of Canadians indicated it was an acceptable term and that he should keep using it. One in four felt mixing the mini-prayer with political speeches was the wrong way to go. Ipsos president Darrell Bricker says the results show controversy over the term has been "a bit of a tempest in a teapot." It has become a source of controversy since...

He is found at the very, very end, these days, with little fanfare or triumphalism. If you blinked, in fact, you'd miss Him. But He is there, just the same, and -- to some people in the news media -- it is a very big deal, indeed. God, that is. At the conclusion of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's March 28 speech to the Conservative Party's national caucus, and his March 13 speech to our troops in Afghanistan, God is acknowledged, and His assistance is sought. "God bless Canada," said the Prime Minister on both of those occasions. And Mr. Harper...