An attempt to force a lower age of consent for homosexual sex in Canada has failed at the committee stage, after Canadian MPs rejected two proposed amendments to a bill scheduled to come before the House of Commons in early May. Bill C-22 was introduced by the Conservative government to raise the age of consent for heterosexual sex to 16 from 14, [...]
Growing up Catholic, I knew theologically that my church forbade abortion and contraception. Although the church’s stand on abortion was self-evident in my opinion, I didn’t really understand why she took such a hard line on contraception until I found myself judging annulment cases on a Catholic marriage tribunal. With few exceptions, I could trace every marital breakdown to the couple saying [...]
April 19’s Gonzales v. Carhart decision upholding the federal partial-birth-abortion ban has been well received by pro-lifers. Indeed, the judiciary has been a consistent thorn in the side of the pro-life movement and Supreme Court decisions that uphold pro-life laws should rightfully be applauded. More important, this decision demonstrates that the incremental strategy pursued by the pro-life movement continues to pay some real [...]
From the editor's desk Writing in the Ottawa Sun April 9, Carleton University political science grad Jordan Michael Smith jammed many leaps of logic, cherry-picking of polls and fallacious arguments to make the case that abortion is a settled issue in Canada. Here is an enumerated list of problematic arguments and a rebuttal of them. 1. Smith stated, “Politically, at a national level, [...]
The following are the reactions of the United States presidential contenders to the April 18, 5-4 ruling by the United States Supreme Court to uphold the 2003 federal ban on partial-birth abortion. Republicans Rudy Giuliani The Supreme Court reached the correct conclusion in upholding the congressional ban on partial-birth abortion. I agree with it. Sam Brownback I’m delighted that the Supreme Court [...]
Seven years after overturning Nebraska’s partial-birth abortion ban, the Supreme Court of the United States, in a 5-4 decision, has upheld a federal ban. In the 1990s, then-president Bill Clinton twice vetoed a federal ban on partial-birth abortion, a procedure in which a live child is mostly delivered except for his head, the skull is crushed or cut open and the brains [...]
One day after a LifeSiteNews.com story exposed the fact that a Ukrainian Catholic priest in Toronto had backed the nomination of a pro-abortion federal politician, the local Ukrainian Catholic bishop publicly reprimanded the priest. On April 3, LifeSiteNews.com reported that at a March 26 Liberal party meeting to nominate Michael Ignatieff held at Christ the Good Shepherd Parish St. Michael’s Ukrainian Catholic [...]
When federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty delivered his second budget recently, the political left – the opposition parties, special interests and labour unions – railed against it for not funding universal childcare or environmental projects. The right – including the Canadian Taxpayers Federation and the Fraser Institute – complained that it did not restrain spending or offer broad-based tax cuts. While these [...]
If demography is destiny, this country is in trouble In March, Statistics Canada released a report on Canada’s population that provided a very sobering picture. Well, it would be sobering, if Canadians woke up to the reality that we are not having enough children and that in doing so, we risk radically changing this nation. StatsCan did find that between 2001 and [...]
Editor’s note regarding Father Ted’s column Fr. Ted Colleton has been writing columns for The Interim almost since the first issue – nearly a quarter-century of monthly reflections on life, family and religion. This might surprise people who have heard Fr. Ted give a homily at a church or speak at a pro-life event, but Father doesn’t feel that he has much [...]
The provincial election on March 28 constituted for Quebec a new era in its political history. Since 1970, the fundamental question in Quebec politics has been the independence of Quebec, with a polarization between the federalist Liberals and the separatist Péquistes. The major breakthrough of Action démocratique du Québec’s Mario Dumont, who is now the official opposition leader in Quebec City, has [...]
Phil Spidell, the co-president of Silverstone Securities Inc., the most profitable securities firm in the U.S., barged raging mad into the office of Art Hoople, the co-president of the firm. “Art, did you see the front-page article in the Wall Street Journal today about us making $68 million each last year? It’s a smear job! Since when has good old American greed not [...]
Former prime minister John Diefenbaker was nothing, if not steadfast in his resolve. “When the going gets tough,” he used to exclaim, “the tough get going.” It’s an adage that Canadian pro-lifers would do well to remember. For those who stand up in Canada and proclaim their support of the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death in Canada, the [...]
The Interim highlights the reaction of prominent Democrats and Republicans to the U.S. Supreme Court decision on partial-birth abortion on page 3 of this issue. But, we have to note one here with an explanation. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) said, “I would only say that this is the only decision a lot of us wish that Alito weren’t there and [...]
The news that a full-time homosexual radio station has taken to the airwaves in Toronto must be causing more than a little chagrin among social conservatives in Canada and not just because of the fact the homosexual lobby will get yet another outlet to propogate its views to a wider audience. The licence for the station was awarded by the Canadian Radio-television [...]