Commentary by Donald DeMarco The Interim In the year 1508, Pope Julius II ordered a reluctant Michelangelo Buonarroti - who considered himself a sculptor and not a painter - to paint the huge vault of the Sistine Chapel, which, since the time of Sixtus IV, displayed nothing more resplendent than a blue field sprinkled with golden stars. Despite his initial reluctance, Michelangelo [...]
Richard John Neuhaus Special to The Interim The demographics of the abortion controversy are often overlooked. Recent months have seen a number of reports indicating that opposition to abortion is growing dramatically among young people. In a Gallup survey of youth aged 13 to 17, only 19 percent said that abortion should be legal in all circumstances (the current regime of Roe [...]
Kathy Shaidle The Interim The press seemed to relish the irony, making a point of mentioning Michael Briere's chosen profession at almost every opportunity: here was a software programmer, admitting to viewing child pornography on his computer just before he raped, murdered and dismembered 10-year-old Holly Jones. The June 17 admission sparked a controversy, pitting police, parents and social conservatives against internet [...]
Sue Careless The Interim Just three days after the Anglican Church of Canada declared homosexual relationships holy, 22 primates representing 70 per cent of Anglicans worldwide, called for the Canadian church to be expelled from their international communion. On June 3, the Canadian church's governing body, General Synod, voted in St. Catharines to "affirm the integrity and sanctity of committed adult same [...]
Tony Gosgnach The Interim In this edition of Corporate Watch, we'll be focusing mainly on some good news coming out of the corporate world. Look for some not-so-good news and areas of concern in the next edition. The owners of the Curves fitness chain, Gary and Diane Heavin, came under fire earlier this year for giving away 10 per cent of the [...]
Paul Jalsevac The Interim John C. Danforth, a well-known opponent of abortion, was recently nominated by President George Bush to be the United States ambassador to the United Nations. A former Republican senator from Missouri with a nearly impeccable pro-life voting record, Danforth retired from the Senate in 1995 after 18 years of service. He has acted as Bush's special envoy to [...]
Pro-lifers say it would be wrong to promote embryo research as Reagan legacy Interim staff Ronald Reagan's death from Alzheimer's triggered an outpouring of support for human embryonic stem cell research from numerous members of Congress emboldened by the comments of Reagan's widow, Nancy. But, in an article in Human Events Online Michael Reagan protested the use of his father's name to [...]
Paul Tuns The Interim In the hundreds of hours of broadcast commentary and hundreds of thousands of words written following the death of Ronald Reagan, very little was said about his commitment to protect the unborn. Reagan was remembered as the man who brought down the Evil Empire, who restored America after its Jimmy Carter malaise and rejuvenated an intellectually dead Republican [...]
Paul Jalsevac The Interim Conservative leader Stephen Harper recently set forth a vision in which the Supreme Court would return to its traditional role, one focused on applying rather than making law. "My view is that the role of the court is to apply the Charter to protect the rights laid out in the Charter," said Harper. "The role of the court [...]
On Father's Day weekend, Canadians watched two of their nation's highest-profile dads argue bitterly about which one of them hated child pornography more. It all started during the English-language leaders debate. In the midst of an exchange about using the notwithstanding clause to override Supreme Court decisions, Conservative leader Stephen Harper abruptly raised the issue of child pornography. Up to that point, [...]
Dina Kok The Interim As abortion became a key election issue, an "independent" website of a new pro-abortion group, Women Demand Better, attacked Conservative leader Stephen Harper for his alleged pro-life position. The day after the media reported on this non-partisan and independent attack on Harper, a Vancouver paper revealed that the organization was founded by a teen with Liberal connections. Cassandra [...]
The Interim The debate over homosexual marriage in this year's federal election highlighted a deep division between the two major parties' views on the role of the legislature and the proper interpretation of the Charter of Rights. Although "sexual orientation" is not mentioned in the Charter, and its inclusion was specifically rejected by the drafters, activist judges in the Supreme Court read [...]
"This (abortion) really does cut to the core of one of the key women's issues in this country and gradually these people are taking their sheep's clothing off, sort of one sleeve at a time." - Liberal MP and Public Health Minister Carolyn Bennett "The notion of state-imposed, third-party counseling as if we are children, as if we are not able to [...]
Commentary by Tony Gosgnach The Interim Two of the great media guru Marshall McLuhan's most notable slogans were "the medium is the message" and "all news is fake." Given the recent Canadian federal election campaign, one can verily say that truer words were never spoken. "Mainstream" media outlets and their reporters exhibited a shocking degree of selective, slanted and outright biased coverage [...]
Re-Elected and Newly Elected MPs Seeking to Spread the Message of Life and Family. Diane Ablonczy (C) Calgary-Nose Hill Dean Allison (C) Niagara West-Clanbrook Rob Anders (C) Calgary West David Anderson (C) Cypris Hills-Grasslands Leon Benoit (C) Vegreville-Wainwright Ray Bonin (L) Nickel Belt Garry Breitkreuz (C) Yorkton-Melville Gord Brown (C) Leeds-Grenville Colin Carrie (C) Oshawa Rick Casson (C) Lethbridge Dave Chatters (C) [...]