In a 1995 opinion article for Saturday Night magazine, conservative columnist David Frum argued that gay and lesbian weddings would destroy the institution of marriage. "To revitalize marriage, we must constantly remind people of how much society honours it," wrote Frum. "Nothing could be better calculated to diminish marriage in people's eyes than an elite insistence on uni-sexing it. Gay marriage will [...]
Responding to public pressure organized by supporters of Robert Latimer to have the federal government grant a royal prerogative of mercy negating his mandatory 10-year sentence for the murder of his daughter Tracy, a Nova Scotia MP presented a private member's bill opposing the granting of leniency to killers of people with disabilities. Wendy Lill (NDP, Dartmouth) presented Bill M-372 on Oct. [...]
The Interim had the opportunity to interview keynote speaker Wesley J. Smith following his address during the recent Ontario pro-life conference in Richmond Hill, Ont. An edited version of that interview follows. Smith practised law from 1976-1985, during which time he was a partner in his own law firm and served on several bar committees. He left the full-time practice of law [...]
Lost in the wake of Sept. 11 was the announcement that an unidentified Canadian woman had died following a gangrene infection during clinical trials of RU-486. While the mainstream media ignored this issue, the National Catholic Register's Celeste McGovern did some digging and found that Vancouver abortionist and clinical trial overseer Ellen Wiebe failed to inform participants of the dangers of the [...]
Miracles do happen at a busy downtown abortuary - at least once a week. The lives of babies are saved because their distressed mothers are offered help by front-line pro-lifers who run a referral and refuge centre called Aid to Women in Toronto. Counsellors Joanne and Robert estimate that over the last decade some 1,000 babies have survived because someone was on [...]
It probably is unseemly for pro-lifers to tell Canada, "we told you so," but we did. After years of lies and misrepresentations from the abortion lobby and their willing accomplices - pro-abortion politicians, many in the media, some academics - the truth is finally out: abortions are committed for convenience's sake, not because they are medically necessary. On Oct. 31, the Canadian [...]
The latest word on Parliament Hill is that the three contenders for the leadership of the Canadian Alliance are Larry, Curly and Moe. Sources say that if there's a tie vote, the party's position on populist decision-making may have to move to a new level. If not, the best reports indicate that the losers will then enter the leadership race for the [...]