The Conservative Party of Canada caucus decreed in a Feb. 3 vote that former Canadian Alliance MP Larry Spencer will not be allowed back into the new party. Last November, Spencer was fired as Alliance family-issues critic and suspended from caucus after publication of a Vancouver Sun interview that Spencer says was reported wildly out of context. Following the new party caucus's [...]
By Peter Stock The Interim Spanking is okay ... sometimes. So says the Supreme Court of Canada. In a 6-3 decision, the court upheld as generally constitutional Section 43 of the Criminal Code, which provides an exemption from criminal prosecution for parents, teachers, police or other authority figures who use "reasonable" physical force to restrain or discipline a child. The majority of [...]
By Sam Singson The Interim Following the Special Session on Children held at UN headquarters in May 2002, Canada, along with dozens of other countries across the globe, pledged to draft concrete strategies and legislation with the intent of bettering the lives of their youngest citizens. In her quest to fulfill this commitment, Senator Landon Pearson, the self-described "senator for children and [...]
Campaign Life Coalition, the political arm of the Canadian pro-life movement, has looked at the three candidates for the leadership of the new federal Conservative Party and has decided not to endorse any of them. CLC national president Jim Hughes told The Interim that because none of the candidates - former Canadian Alliance leader Stephen Harper, former Ontario health minister Tony Clement [...]
In late January, newly appointed Justice Minister Irwin Cotler announced the latest action his government would take in its plan to redefine the institution of marriage in Canadian law. The government, he explained, would be adding a fourth question to the three questions the previous Chretien administration had referenced to the Supreme Court of Canada last summer in regard to the constitutional [...]
For all the talk about the democracy deficit, there is a much greater deficit in the political arena: a morality deficit. Consider just two facts (for the sake of brevity): o In 2000, then-prime minister Jean Chretien declared that Canada had "social peace" on abortion, indicating that the debate was over. The blood of more than 110,000 unborn babies killed in the [...]
There has been much talk about the "democracy deficit" recently, as Prime Minister Paul Martin championed the cause of more freedom and accountability for MPs. Of course, almost every candidate seeking the leadership of any party promises a greater role for MPs; no leader wants to be seen as being against democracy. But few have acted on those promises once they have [...]
Their voices were heard loud and clear among the more than 100,000 people who attended this year's 31st annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. From all across the United States - and even from Canada - they came, the latest vanguard in a growing movement that seeks to end an almost conspiratorial silence about the myths of "safe and legal" abortion. [...]