I have often wondered on what hill Canadian Christians would finally take a stand as our culture becomes increasingly dark. It appears to me that we have largely caved on abortion, we are in process of caving on the sinfulness of homosexuality, and the so-called mercy killing of the sick and aged is fast approaching as a new threat. I wish I [...]
Media affairs dominate this edition of Corporate Watch. In the wake of the Janet Jackson breast-baring episode during the Super Bowl half-time show, the spotlight is shining on the MTV television channel, which is owned by Viacom. The new website BoycottMTV.net has attracted more than 120,000 people, who say they will eschew a media outlet that, according to one British observer, has [...]
Oromocto is a vibrant, progressive New Brunswick town of 9,000, 20 kilometres from Fredericton and the home of Canadian Forces Base Gagetown. "Canada's model town," the chamber of commerce calls it.The chamber can list a new "service": abortions at Oromocto Public Hospital. Abortion activities formerly carried out in Fredericton's Dr. Everett Chalmers Hospital are to move to OPH. It will become the [...]
Many little toddlers love Barbie dolls. For years, Barbie and Mattel have been exploring new ways of enhancing and broadening the young minds to which they cater. In 2002, the Midge doll - part of Matell's Barbie doll line - became embroiled in controversy when she showed up in the toy aisle pregnant. She wore a wedding ring and her packaging told [...]
By Paul Tuns It was e. e. cummings who said that the world is not only queerer than we suppose, it is queerer than we can suppose. (He said it before the term queer was hijacked by homosexual activists.) Editing a pro-life newspaper I have come to expect the worst news and yet I am still surprised by what comes across my [...]
There can be seen today, in late modern society, a furtive obsession with sex in all its forms and manifestations. This is likely to be, among many people, an attempt to psychologically counteract the fact that, almost everywhere in late-modern society, death (abortion), sterility (the collapse of large and stable families), violence (burgeoning crime rates), and horror (in the media) reign. Late-modern [...]
Catholic journalist and apologist Mark Shea is a good acquaintance, really, but when he gets a bug in his bonnet, the results are rarely pleasant. Lately, on his immensely popular website, he's taken to railing against the "blasphemous individualism" of libertarianism - an ideology for "selfish people with no kids." When readers of a laissez faire bent protested the generalization by pointing [...]
Paul Martin's Liberal government will give committees of MPs the chance to scrutinize judges nominated to the Supreme Court of Canada. That promise was made in January by Liberal MP Roger Gallaway, the man given responsibility for democratic reform by Martin. "What is obvious is the courts, but particularly the Supreme Court, have assumed a position of power which challenges the doctrine [...]
Marriage commissioners in British Columbia have been ordered to perform and register so-called "marriages" between persons of the same sex, or resign. MP Vic Toews has complained that the demand is inconsistent with an employer's obligation to accommodate the religious and moral beliefs of employees. He reminds us of the general rule that an employee must not be forced to do something [...]
The national news media are biased. No news here. The media have never made a pretense of objectivity. They don't claim to be unbiased, or particularly factual for that matter (although it may appear that way). Not that the monolithic liberal media machine has said it in such unambiguous terms, but anyone who is paying attention knows that "neutrality" is a "great [...]
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 [...]