LifeSiteNews.com reports on the Crossroads Walkers who ended their trek from the Pacific Ocean to the nation's capital, bringing the pro-life message to communities in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and western Quebec, before finishing up in Ottawa this past weekend. Their efforts were praised by pro-life veterans: Paul Lauzon of Campaign Life Coalition Ottawa praised the Crossroads initiative for bringing attention [...]
A story from our August issue on the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform's summer training session for students is now online. An excerpt: Ruth Lobo, a 22-year-old student at Carleton University, is one of the summer interns. She says that through “Choice” Chain, “The most impactful thing for me thus far has been sharing my adoption story with strangers and showing them through [...]
On July 2, after four years of negotiation, the United Nations created a new agency for promoting gender equality. The General Assembly voted to combine four UN offices dedicated to women’s issues – United Nations Development Fund for Women, the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, Division for the Advancement of Women, and the Office of the Special [...]
Esquire magazine’s motto is “man at his best,” but if you only watched movies and television, the last couple of decades would have made it harder for you to figure out just when, particularly, a man could count on hitting his golden years – that plateau where health, wealth and hard-won wisdom combine at a tolerable average. It certainly isn’t the gormless, [...]
They said “yes” to use the call to spend their summer training as a pro-life activist. They said “yes” to focusing on saving lives in both sunshine and rain. They said “yes” to the two-and-a-half month internship with the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform. They are the seven young pro-lifers from across Canada, plus one from the United States, who [...]
Q&A with Craig Carter Editor’s note: Joseph Jalsevac, a summer intern at The Interim, spoke to Dr. Craig Carter, an ordained minister in the Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches of Canada and a professor of Religious Studies at Tyndale University College in Toronto, about contraception. Carter regularly writes and lectures on Christian sexual ethics in the modern world. The Interim: [...]
In July, the National March for Life committee announced Dan Heffernan as the newly appointed National March for Life coordinator for lay movements, a new position on the committee. Heffernan has had extensive involvement in the pro-life movement over the past few years. Joining the Knights of Columbus in 1988, Heffernan continued to hold various positions within the council, including [...]
Campaign Life Coalition, LifeCanada and the International Right to Life Federation are co-sponsoring the 2010 international pro-life conference, "Building a Culture of Life," in Ottawa. There is a great lineup of speakers including John Smeaton from SPUC, Bill Saunders from AUL, Jack Willke from IRLF, and Emmy-winning pro-life documentarian Brad Mattes. One of our favourites around here is Rev. Johnny Hunter, president of the U.S. group LEARN, who [...]
The weekend paper had stories about how a federal judge reversed a stay on Judge Vaughn Walker's decision over-ruling of the will of the people of California on the issue of same-sex marriage. Now comes news that the extremely liberal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals motions panel has re-instated the order to stay the decision, effectively ending same-sex marriage until the court can render its decision in a full [...]
Lately I have been talking to our editorial writer about why abortion is so important, and so unlike any other issue. Some of that conversation is going to make it into an editorial or my column. Then I open the August/September issue of First Things and find that journal's editor writing about the very same topic. Here is an excerpt: Even now, [...]
Miriam Grossman gave an excellent lecture last year at the Heritage Foundation which has just been released and all eight of its pages are worth reading, especially for those who deal with education issues -- both parents and teachers. The gist is that sex ed curricula ignore scientifically valid data about STDs as well as the positive role parents play in adolescent development and that's [...]
Big Blue Wave links to About A Girl who says that the work of the abortionist is "about life. I will say that again. Our work is about life." As BBW responds, "Did you ever get the feeling that abortion supporters just want to get away from abortion as a subject in and of itself?" Partly the abortion is about life line [...]
Ross Douthat has a good column in the New York Times about the bad arguments pro-traditional marriage advocates make (it is 'natural' and 'marriage has always been between one man and one woman') which are patently false and why social conservatives are losing the same-sex marriage debate using those arguments. The good argument is precisely that marriage is not natural, but creates a [...]
From Liberal MP Keith Martin's blog: That’s turnoff, as in turn off the TV and computer once a week as a way to confront a dangerous trend of physical inactivity among Canada’s children and youth. MP Dr. Keith Martin is advocating a national turnoff day for children and adults. So Martin is concerned about how the television and computer affect children's development [...]
Liberal MP Keith Martin tweets, "We must work together to stop the extinction of Africa’s wildlife." Along with Bob Rae, Martin was the point man for Liberals on insisting that maternal health for women in the developing world included abortion.