The Truth Is Out There: Christian Faith and the Classics of TV Science Fiction by Thomas Bertonneau and Kim Paffenroth (Brazos Press, $23.99 pb, 272 pages) Thomas Bertonneau and Kim Paffenroth are both well-respected American academics and committed Christians. Readers should not be put off by the 50s “flying saucer” image on the cover. This very erudite book looks at the possible [...]
Warned: Canada’s Revolution Against Faith, Family and Freedom Threatens America by Tristan Emmanuel (Freedom Press Canada Inc., $23.95, 190 pages) Tristan Emmanuel is one of Canada’s most vocal opponents of the redefinition of marriage. He heads the Equipping Christians for the Public Square Centre and is the author of Christophobia. In the interest of full disclosure, he sits on this paper’s editorial [...]
Andre Bergeron was sentenced to three years’ probation and no jail time for an attempted euthanasia on his wife, which he failed to complete. In July 2005, Bergeron attempted to asphyxiate his wife, who suffered from Friedreich’s Ataxia (a degenerative disorder), with a plastic bag. He called 911 prior to her death, but she died three days later in hospital. According to [...]
On Oct. 12, NDP MP Tony Martin held a town hall meeting for his constituents in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. Although the city boasts a population of 75,000, and the meeting was advertised well in advance, only about a dozen people showed up to discuss issues with the MP. The meeting began when an individual, who appeared to be an NDP supporter [...]
The Sept. 9 editions of the Toronto Sun and the Toronto Star, two newspapers having pretensions to cosmic significance, carried the same hard-hitting storyline: “Pope slams Canada.” They were reporting on the comments Pope Benedict XVI had made on the previous day to seven Ontario bishops. Typical of secular newspapers, being more concerned with words that startle than with thoughts that nourish, [...]
There were 1200 Life Chain demonstration across North America on October 1. While numbers continue trickle in, at least 13,000 people participated in Ontario alone.
About 900 people in Niagara Falls were among some 15,000 Ontarians who took part in the annual, North American Life Chain event on Oct. 1. The diverse crowd, organized in four zones, lined both sides of Lundy’s Lane, the major thoroughfare running through the honeymoon city. For one hour, they held signs and stood in prayerful witness to the sanctity of human [...]
Interim Staff It’s strange how priorities change. What is more important to the individual parent: the education and welfare of her child or the tax policy of the federal government? While both are important, this is not always borne out by the relative interest that people take in local versus national election campaigns. Perhaps they should think again, especially in light of [...]
Court Challenges Program eliminated, Status of Women chopped Interim Staff When the Harper Conservative government announced $1 billion in spending cuts in late September, special interest groups, their friends in the media and opposition politicians went ballistic. Opposition leader and militant homosexual rights advocate Bill Graham attacked the reductions as “vindictive, mean-spirited cuts targeted at the weak, the needy, the vulnerable and [...]
Tories deliver in several important areas Many social conservatives did not have high expectations for the first term of a Harper-led Conservative government. They put their faith in the Conservative party due in part to Stephen Harper’s promise to revisit the same-sex “marriage” issue and because of the large number of pro-life MPs within the Tory caucus as compared to the other [...]
The Interim is often criticized for reporting too much negative news. We disagree; there are plenty of positive profiles of committed warriors for life and family, reviews of uplifting music and plays and positive developments at various levels, including, last month, at the United Nations. Perhaps some people are only happy when they complain. But a look at this issue shows even [...]
Benedict XVI’s speech on Sept. 12 to scientists at the University of Regensburg, where he served as a professor, set off an unintended furor of controversy. It also highlighted an important dynamic in what Samuel Huntington describes as “the clash of civilizations.” The target of Benedict’s speech was not Islam, but modernity. Benedict took modernity to task for limiting reason to the [...]
Canada In an interview with LifeSiteNews.com, London Bishop Ronald Fabro said that when it comes to voting, Catholics should give abortion and euthanasia a priority over issues such as war and the death penalty ... By-elections will be held in Repentigny (Quebec) and London North Centre (Ontario) on Nov. 27. Possible contenders in the London North Centre election include Diane Haskett, the [...]
Comatose patients could be used for experiments MELBOURNE – An Australian medical official has suggested using incapacitated patients - people in a so-called permanent vegetative states - for medical experiments. Dr. Steven Curry, of the University of Melbourne, says that, “Those who are in a PVS ... have no continuing interest in their own survival,” and thus could benefit others. U.S. Supreme [...]
Judy Parejko will never forget her ninth birthday. She was recovering from the funeral of her mother, who had passed away after a year-and-a-half struggle with cancer.” It was just my dad, my four sisters and me,” Judy tells The Interim. This childhood tragedy became the first step in Judy’s journey as one of North America’s most outspoken opponents of “no-fault” divorce. [...]