Where are we now? Where do we go? This article is written to establish the current concerns related to the issues of euthanasia and assisted suicide and the direction in which we must turn in order to reverse the trend toward giving physicians the right to intentionally and directly cause the deaths of their patients. In Canada, the debate surrounding euthanasia and [...]
No way. To go to Copenhagen and hang out with a huge number of closed-minded people addicted to junk science I felt would’ve been just a waste of time, like trying to talk Stalin into going to church. At that big 12-day showy international climate change junk science schmozzle held recently in Copenhagen, a lot of toothless and half-baked resolutions were passed [...]
I'll be on Behind the Story on Sunday night at 7 pm. It airs on CTS in Ontario and Alberta and afterward the show is archived on the CTS website. (I was last on November 29 if you're interested.) We'll be discussing Michael Ignatieff, abortion and maternal health; Haiti adoptions and child trafficking; the Tebow Super Bowl ad; Senate reform; Khadr and the [...]
Toronto Archbishop Thomas Collins has weighed in on the federal government's call on the G8 to commit to improving maternal health and decreasing child mortality. You can read the statement here, but here is the highlight: When there are so many obvious practical steps that can be taken to promote maternal and child health throughout the world, it is sad to see [...]
You can't buy this kind of PR. Thanks, Mr. Ignatieff. Michael Ignatieff, the Liberal leader and former Harvard professor, has done more to raise the abortion issue than anyone or anything since Governor General Michaelle Jean gave Henry Morgentaler the Order of Canada in 2008. Earlier this week he called for the Harper government to ensure that abortion is part of any foreign [...]
From our editorial "Vote on C-384" in the February issue of The Interim, which concludes: Often proponents of change will call for an open discussion and a free vote to start the debate. We are calling for an affirmation of the current strictures against euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide to end debate. The House of Commons should vote on C-384 – and defeat [...]
From the February issue of The Interim: "Pro-life implications of the Haiti disaster." The story offers news briefs on a number of pro-life angles including what the pro-abortion groups are doing, some support-worthy organizations, and concerns about human trafficking. Speaking of which, this Sunday night, Paul Tuns, editor of The Interim, will be on Behind the Story on CTS, discussing, among other topics, adopting children [...]
On Dec. 30, Prime Minister Stephen Harper asked Governor General Michaelle Jean to prorogue Parliament, shutting it down until March 3. When Parliament prorogues, all unfinished government legislation dies, but private members bills do not. This means that C-384, the private members bill of Francine Lalonde that would legalize euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide, will still be voted on when the new session [...]
“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, and though the mountains tremble at its swelling” (Psalm 46:1-3) On Jan. 12, an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale rocked Haiti, [...]
Campaign Life Coalition issued this press release today: Liberal Party Leader Pushes His Pro-Abortion Agenda Regarding Maternal Health Initiative for Women in Developing Countries Liberal Leader, Michael Ignatieff, stated in his media release February 2, 2010 that “Liberal MPs are calling on Stephen Harper to assure Canadians that he won’t change Canada’s long-standing tradition of recognizing women’s reproductive rights, [such as abortion] and [...]
Ezra Levant has a very good post with a picture of a young black child from disaster-stricken Haiti under the headline: "What's the first thing you think of when you see all those poor Haitian kids?" After noting what the Conservative government has done (provide immediate humanitarian relief, host a Haiti relief conference, challenge the G8 to do more for maternal health and [...]
I was going to call this post: "Zerb gets it wrong (no surprise)." But that would be lowering The Interim to Antonia Zerbisias' level. For those who don't know her, Zerbisias is a Toronto Star columnist and today she has a column in the "Entertainment" section -- not the op-ed page, but the "Entertainment" pages, perhaps because her columns are often good for a laugh -- [...]
Michael Ignatieff is clearly moving his Liberal Party to the left on social issues. On Monday, he announced support for a universal daycare plan. Yesterday, he called upon Stephen Harper's Conservative government to make abortion a key component of their efforts to improve maternal health and decrease infant mortality (see the Toronto Star, National Post, Globe and Mail, LifeSiteNews, and the Canadian Press stories). According to [...]
Michael Ignatieff is talking up education and a key component of his agenda is a universal daycare scheme. The Toronto Star reports: A national child-care program will be put in place by a future Liberal government, no matter how bare the fiscal cupboard may be, leader Michael Ignatieff has promised. "We will find the money, because it seems to me an excellent [...]
Last week I noted Prime Minister Stephen Harper's call to action to reduce maternal and infant mortality in the developing world and how the agenda of authentic assistance to the world's most vulnerable people might be hijacked by a pro-abortion agenda of groups like Action Canada for Population Development. Brian Lilley has a good column at MercatorNet.com about this in which he [...]