Despite scoffs, polygamy does follow same-sex ‘marriage’ Among serious Catholics in our riding, Tony Martin is known as “the Irish Souper.” This is not a reference to our MP’s former position with Sault Ste. Marie’s soup kitchen. Rather, it refers to the Irish immigrant and one-time Catholic seminarian’s vote on BillC-38. Like certain Irishmen during the Great Potato Famine, the NDP MP [...]
The Family Coalition Party of Ontario is setting its sights on having at least one member elected to the Ontario Legislature by the year 2011. At the FCP’s annual convention and general meeting in Mississauga April 22, leader Giuseppe Gori said the prospect of proportional representation, or a mixed proportional representation system, coupled with “a lot of hard work,” will see the [...]
Since the speech delivered Dec. 1, 2005 by Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin in Wellington, New Zealand, several pro-life leaders have zeroed in on her remarks about judicial activism and how, in her opinion, judges should identify unwritten constitutional principles for a “new natural law.” When I read the speech, however, I understand that she would also positively support a law [...]
The ‘slippery slope’ argument proves valid One argument against euthanasia - one worth putting forward as it appears that Francine Lalonde’s private member’s bill is to be re-introduced in Parliament - is that it is wrong. Quite simply, that killing people for any reason other than immediate self-defenxe or in the course of a just war is immoral. There are, alas, a [...]
In politics, success and failure are usually measured in terms of how many seats a party has won in the last election. If it has won a lot, it is successful. If it hasn’t won many – or hasn’t won any at all – then it must be a failure. That’s the way we generally view things in politics. But how does [...]
A psychologist, who accompanied a friend to a Swiss suicide clinic, was before a professional appeals panel on May 17, accused of misconduct. The College of Psychologists revisited the complaint against Peter Marshall, who wrote a letter to the National Post in December 2004 describing his trip to Switzerland with his friend ‘Su’ who killed herself with the help of Dignitas, a [...]
The aftermath of abortion is as at least as devastating for men as for women, say clinicians and researchers advocating for healing. Men who have experienced a wife or girlfriend’s abortion commonly feel rage, anxiety, grief and depression, shame, guilt and a sense of helplessness and impotence. While much more research on men’s aftermath is needed, post-abortive men clearly suffer in multiple [...]
On May 17, Conservative MP Leon Benoit (Vegreville-Wainwright) introduced a bill in Parliament to recognize unborn victims of violence. Bill C-291, an act to amend the Criminal Code (injuring or causing the death of a child before or during its birth while committing an offence), saw first reading. Benoit hopes to address, however narrowly, the fact that Canada is the only Western [...]
President was advised to ‘eliminate’ the poor and illiterate Does former U.S. president Bill Clinton, and elite elements within the Democratic Party – which has ostensibly identified itself as the party of the downtrodden working man – secretly despise poor people? That was the impression given from the release of recently uncovered government documents and a report, “The Clinton RU-486 Files,” from [...]
The first Conservative budget in 14 years, publicly presented by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty on May 3, is a historic shift that recognizes the central importance of families in society. The budget statement said: “Strong families are the cornerstone of a sound and prosperous society, and are key to ensuring a bright future for Canada. The most important investment we can make [...]
On Wednesday, May 10, MP Maurice Vellacott resigned from the parliamentary committee he headed because of allegedly“controversial” comments he made to a CBC reporter the previous Friday. This tawdry affair was entirely orchestrated by our public broadcaster, the CBC, in an attempt to tarnish the good name of a fine politician. And, although Vellacott has been humbled by this manufactured scandal, it [...]
Canada Columnist, broadcaster and Interim contributor Michael Coren wrote a column in the National Post claiming that he was “blacklisted” from a political panel on the CBC News Sunday program in which he was originally scheduled to appear. He said it was because of the Mother Corps’ objections to “certain conservative, particularly morally conservative, voices in the media” ... Canadian Catholic and [...]
Amnesty closer to supporting abortion ‘rights’ LONDON – Amnesty International U.K. has supported a motion advocating abortion as a human right that is scheduled to debated on at the prominent human rights international convention in 2007. The New Zealand branch of AI also voted in favour of a similar resolution. New Zealand Right to Life condemned Amnesty’s decision “to actively fight to [...]