Rev. Tristan Emmanuel The Interim In the current marriage debate, we have identified problems and rehashed history, but many social conservatives haven’t actually answered the most fundamental question of all: what is marriage? The debate does beg this fundamental question. After all, there are a whole bunch of issues that Christians could rally behind. What makes marriage so unique that it deserves [...]
Tony Gosgnach The Interim Between them, they’ve quietly filled almost every role a faith-filled, pro-life, pro-family person could play over the course of the past several decades – REAL Women of Canada’s first president, active Physicians for Life member, picketer for over 20 years at a hospital that commits abortions, candidate for, and deputy leader of, Ontario’s Family Coalition Party, public relations [...]
George ‘The Killer” Tiller earns his nickname Dina Kok The Interim Late-term abortionist George “the Killer” Tiller has once again been suspected in the death of a mother seeking the abortion of her baby. A 19-year-old disabled woman from Texas suffered a fatal medical emergency in mid January while at Tiller’s abortuary in Wichita, Ks., the Women’s Health Care Services. Operation Rescue, [...]
Pete Vere, JCL The Interim Charlie Angus, the New Democrat MP for Timmins-James Bay, Ont., has a problem. His parish priest has told Angus, a former Catholic New Times columnist, that he may no longer receive Holy Communion if he votes to give state recognition to so-called same-sex “marriages.” Bishop Paul Marchand of Timmins is standing behind his priest. “I haven’t decided [...]
Terry O’Neill Special to The Interim Abubaker Abusbeaa, the manager of Vancouver’s Islamic Information Centre, says that there’s a lot more talk amongst his Muslim friends these days about the possible legalization of polygamy. After all, they figure, if marriage is being redefined for the purpose of allowing two men to marry, then why not a man and two women? “It’s not [...]
Bill 171 proved to be a tale of political scheming, as ‘spouse’ was redefined in provincial laws Analysis by Steve Jalsevac Special to The Interim Last months’s brutally rushed passage of same-sex marriage legislation in the Ontario legislature is still causing observers of the undemocratic fiasco to shake their heads. A usually reliable source reported the Ontario Liberals pushed through their same-sex [...]
Interim Staff On March 8, the United Nations General Assembly formally adopted an international declaration that calls on member states to enact legislation to “prohibit all forms of human cloning.” By a vote of 84-34, the assembly approved the measure, which serves to set an international standard that humans should not be created through cloning for any purpose. This places human life [...]
The Conservative Party of Canada’s founding convention (March 17 to 19, 2005 in Montreal) resulted in the new party taking a position in support of the traditional definition of marriage and a position against a future CPC government taking any action on the abortion issue. Here is a timeline and description of the events leading up to the convention and the highlights [...]
The Faces of Origins: A Historical Survey of the Underlying Assumptions from the Early Church to Postmodernism by David Herbert M.A., M.Div., Ed.D. (Citizens Concerned about Education and Origins, $20, 130 pages) Review by Alex Schadenberg The Interim David Herbert is a retired teacher in London, Ont., who has focused 20 years of research on issues related to creation and evolution in [...]
This is worth noting because it illustrates the utter contempt that both Prime Minister Paul Martin and Justice Minister Irwin Cotler have for Parliament and their own Liberal MPs. On Feb. 21, Conservative MP Rick Casson (Lethbridge) said in a question to Paul Harold Macklin, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada: “We understand that after [...]
The conventions of the Liberal and Conservative parties, which were both held in March, provided not just an opportunity to look at the differences between the parties, but also to better understand the media that covered them. In the eyes of journalists, the Liberals, who considered legalizing same-sex “marriage,” marijuana and prostitution, are not merely progressive, but “mainstream;” that is, they represent [...]
Hospital withdraws ventilator from baby HOUSTON – At the order of a county judge, Sun Hudson, a five-month-old baby diagnosed with dwarfism and suspected of having lungs to small to support life, was removed from the ventilator which assisted the child with breathing since his birth. The Houston Chronicle reported bioethicists say it was the first time a U.S. judge has ever [...]
Canada Prime Minister Paul Martin appointed nine new senators including the pro-abortion former leader of the Alberta Liberal Party, Grant Mitchell, and Nancy Ruth, co-founder of both the feminist legal outfit Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) and the Charter of Rights Coalition. Commentator Adam Daifallah noted on his website of the appointments: “I just love how he appoints two out [...]
Paul Tuns and John-Henry Westen The Interim When you read the papers or watched the television broadcasts heralding the Conservative Party of Canada’s shift to the centre following their policy convention in Montreal in mid-March, you would be convinced that the social liberals routed the social conservatives in the policy and constitutional votes. But groups such as Campaign Life Coalition see it [...]
Paul Tuns The Interim The University of Western Ontario announced that it would bestow an honourary doctorate to Henry Morgentaler leading pro-lifers to call for alumni to cease donationg to the institution. For two decades before the 1988 Morgentaler decision, the abortionist operated illegal abortuaries in Montreal, Toronto and Winnipeg, was repeatedly charged and served time in jail for breaking Canada’s abortion [...]