Our November cover story on the decline of the traditional family in Canada is now online. It looks at two recent reports, one by the Vanier Institute for the Family and another by the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada. Bottom line: the glass is half-full/half-empty because the family as defined as married mom, dad and 2.1 children is disappearing but the ideal still exists.
The New Brunswick Human Rights Commission will hold hearings on whether the province's abortion funding policy is a violation of the human rights of women. The National Post and Telegraph-Journal have reports. Under New Brunswick's Medical Services Payment Act the province will only pay for abortions committed at hospitals and which are referred by a family doctor. The NB HRC is not [...]
Two new reports by Canadian think tanks indicate that the traditional family of mother, father and children is becoming a relic of a bygone era with consequences for individuals and society. According to a new report, Families Count: Profiling Canada’s Families, by the left-leaning Vanier Institute for the Family, the traditional family of married parents with children is no longer the norm. [...]
Yesterday, Bill C-510, Rod Bruinooge's private member's bill that would add "coercion of pregnant women to abort" to the Criminal Code, had second reading. The bill is also known as Roxanne's Law. LifeSiteNews covered the debate. We have written about Roxanne's Law previously. Andrea Mrozek wrote in the Calgary Herald that C-510 should not be controversial -- how can so-called pro-choice advocates oppose legislation that [...]
Rick McGinnis reviews recent books by the Hitchens brothers (The Rage Against God by Peter Hitchens and Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens) in the October Interim. Here's a sample, on Hitch-22: If the book ends weakly, it’s largely because, after dropping names for several hundred pages, he expresses his contentment at ending up in the company of a “party of positive non-belief” – [...]
Ignore the background noise This was released by Gary Bauer, noted conservative leader in the United States: This is it, folks -- Election Day. If you have not already voted, please go out and do so right now. We are getting too many reports of low turnout in Republican areas of the country. This morning, Howard Dean confidently predicted that Democrats would [...]
Pro-life victory The midterm elections will result in a massive repudiation of Barack Obama and his liberal friends in Congress. Most of the backlash against Democrats is rooted in opposition to the overreach of the health care reform bill and much of that opposition was based on the overreach to include federal funding for abortion. It will be more difficult for Obama [...]