Recently Bill Whatcott, the controversial Regina-based Christian crusader for morality and ethics, added another human rights complaint to his portfolio. Over a month ago, Whatcott found an ad in Saskatchewan's leading gay magazine that he felt fell under the law of protection for children against pedophilia. The ad read: "I'm 28, 160 lbs, searching for boys/men for penpals, friendship, exchanging video, pics, [...]
Charles Krauthammer is a Uruguayan-born, McGill University-educated medical doctor cum Washington D.C.-based political pundit whose work appears regularly in the American press. An ethnic Jew (it is unknown whether he practices) and confined to a wheelchair, he is a moderate conservative who has reservations about embryonic stem cell research. However, in the April 29 issue of The New Republic, he laid out [...]
June is here, and that means it's time for the annual festival of bacchanalia and depravity known as "gay pride." In just one case, thousands of homosexuals from across North America will descend on Canada's largest city for Pride Toronto, consisting of several days of activities centred on the pleasures of the flesh - more specifically, with same sex partners. The occasion [...]
I have mixed emotions today as I write in this newsletter. I am very sad to report the loss of one of my heroes, Lila Stanford. Lila fell and suffered a head injury. After lingering for about 10 days, and only after she had said her goodbyes to everyone, she quietly slipped into her final sleep. For those who knew Lila you [...]
Judith Levine, author and journalist, recently wrote a new and controversial book, Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Kids From Sex. Levine brought her book to several publishing companies before the University of Minnesota Press decided to take it on, which should not be surprising. The U of M Press saw the book as iffy at first, so it assigned an [...]
Living in a culture that is hostile towards traditional views of faith and morals, few of us would deny the hegemonic control exercised by our opponents upon our political parties, government bureaucracy, courts, academic institutions, unions, mass media and popular culture. One need only to look at the Canadian media's hostile portrayal of a few modest gains in bringing pro-family/pro-life views into [...]
Abortionist Robert Scott opened his own abortuary on Monday, May 25. Both Premier David Peterson and the Attorney-General promised that charges will be forthcoming. "We will prosecute under the law," said Premier Peterson. "We will use the power of the law not to allow free-standing abortion clinics." Plans for the facility were discovered when ads appeared in a Toronto newspaper on May [...]
LifeSite News In an interim ruling May 10, Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert MacKinnon ruled that a Catholic School and the Catholic school board could not forbid a 17-year-old male student from bringing his homosexual "boyfriend" to the school prom. The prom was held that night and the injunction ruling was expedited so as to allow Marc and his "boyfriend" to attend [...]
Handful of Liberals had joined Alliance, Tory and NDP MPs in bid to raise age of consent Are horses more important than the safety of children? That's the impression the House of Commons gave in late April when it unanimously passed a bill declaring the Canadien horse as Canada's "national" horse, but struck down by votes of 163-62, and 154-71 two Canadian [...]
Filling a gap for pro-life youth in southern Ontario was the goal of the second annual Youth for Life Challenge held at Notre Dame High School in Burlington, Ont. on April 20. Sponsored by Halton Pro-Life, the day-long event attracted high school, college and university students from as far as St. Catharines to hear presenters including bioethics expert Father Tom Lynch, disabled [...]
Lifesite News Canadian Alliance MP Garry Breitkreuz (Yorkton-Melville) has been told by Health Canada that the department has no statistics on whether abortions are medically necessary or medically risky. On April 23, Breitkreuz submitted an Access to Information request asking for "Copies of documents, reports and correspondence in the department with respect to the total death risk by women having an elective [...]
In May, The Interim awarded the first annual Father Ted Colleton Scholarship to Sheena McMullin, of the Rivier Academy in Prince Albert, Sask. and Stephen Tardiff of St. Michael's College School in Toronto, Ont. The $1,000 scholarships were awarded to these two high school students for their essays on the responsibilities of youth in the pro-life movement. The Interim congratulates Sheena and [...]
On April 19, a highly regarded member of the P.E.I. legislative assembly unwittingly violated the political correctness norms, and unexpectedly found himself depicted across the country as a racist bigot. Well-known pro-lifer Wilbur MacDonald, former member of Parliament, former speaker and longest serving member of the provincial House, was addressing a resolution on child pornography. Speaking without notes, he said that some [...]
Bourget joins Dobson ministry full-time When Darrell Reid took over the leadership of Focus on the Family Canada three years ago, he knew that the organization would be different than its American counterpart. For one thing, Canada is bilingual. To truly serve and strengthen Canadian families as its vision states, Focus on the Family would have to impact the 20 per cent [...]
A Canadian Press story inadvertently proved a recent Leger Marketing poll about media practices correct. The story, which appeared in the May 6 Toronto Star, began, "Canada may have the reputation of being somewhat bland, but a new poll suggests many Canadians think their media are sensationalist and biased." How ironic is it that a news report about a poll on the [...]