Opposition says government intimidates opponents Opposition parties attacked the Harper government for defunding a dozen feminist organizations saying that the cuts in taxpayer subsidies to the special interest groups was retaliation against critics of the government’s policy to not include funding of abortion in its G8 maternal health initiative. The revelation by Liberal women’s affairs critic Anita Neville that initially [...]
I'm not sure what our plan is when it comes to how extensively to cover the Elena Kagan confirmation hearings -- we are, after all, a Canadian publication, but with a largish American online readership. For now, read Ed Whelan's pair of posts (here and here) at Bench Memos on Kagan and her position on SSM and her apparent attempt to hide [...]
The Pocono Record reports that a 31-year-old Pennsylvania man, Michael James Lisk, had a long-term sexual relationship with a 13-year-old girl who subsequently became pregnant, aborted her own child with a pencil, and had Lisk help dispose of the remains of the aborted child. The paper reports: Still sick on Sunday, the girl went with her mother to Lehigh Valley Hospital. Staff in the Pediatric Intensive [...]
National March for Life 2010 photos More March for Life 2010 photos Last year’s National March for Life in Ottawa saw 12,000 pro-lifers gathering on Parliament Hill in the pouring rain before proceeding through the streets of the nation’s capital for a one-hour march to witness to the injustice of abortion. This year, with the weather co-operating, a record 12,500 Canadians took [...]
Because it will expose their lie that there is a consensus on the issue. Margaret Somerville explains in a Montreal Gazette column: The likely possibility is, however, that pro-choice advocates and politicians will continue to argue there is no need for a debate. But if the consensus they claim does exist, they have nothing to fear. And if it does not, then [...]
My review of Marci McDonald's much talked about The Armageddon Factor is now online. I could have gone in greater detail about the errors, engaged her dishonest and hysterical argument, or used the book as a springboard to jump into the broader topic of the Religious Right in Canada, but alas a newspaper has word counts and space limitations, so I used the review to [...]
The Armageddon Factor: The Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada by Marci McDonald (Random House, $32, 419 pages) If you deliberately set out to write a bad book you would have a hard time outdoing Marci McDonald, whose The Armageddon Factor is so comprehensively awful that there is no reason whatsoever to ever read it. The long-time journalist has set her sights [...]
Dr. Hedy Fry, a Liberal MP and big-time supporter of abortion, refuses to debate former patient and pro-life advocate Stephanie Gray. Kelly McParland covers it here at National Post and there is a YouTube video Fry getting a staffer to return Gray's call to say that she won't be debating a non-MP: Hedy Fry ducks abortion debate.
There is a pretty lame article on Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Chief of Staff Guy Giorno in the current Maclean's but this paragraph is worth noting: Perhaps more than any issue that’s arisen in Giorno’s nearly two years as Harper’s top adviser, outlawing overseas abortion funding threatens to drag him unwillingly toward the centre of media attention. (Giorno declined to be interviewed for [...]
LifeSiteNews talked to Campaigne Quebec Vie's Georges Buscemi about the province's National Assembly recent unanimous 109-0 vote re-affirming “the right of women to free choice and to free and accessible abortion services”: While 16 members of the National Assembly were not present, Buscemi said the vote is “definitely” a sign that there are no politicians in the Quebec legislature that the pro-life movement [...]
LifeSiteNews.com has the story about Ozzy Osbourne singing about Robert Latimer's 1993 murder of his daughter, Tracey Latimer, who had cerebral palsy. LSN reports: "To put your child to death is a big decision. I'm not one to go, 'You're wrong, you shouldn't do that,' or 'You did the right thing,'" Osbourne told a CanWest reporter during a news conference. So the rocker isn't [...]
Ezra Levant has an excellent post on BQ leader Gilles Duceppe's bigoted, anti-Catholic attacks on the involvement of a particular Catholic group (Opus Dei) in politics, all of which smells, sounds and looks like McCarthyism.
Marci McDonald was on TVO's The Agenda last night and she said her goal for her new book was to initiate a discussion on how much religiosity we should have in the public square. For many on the Left and some libertarians, the answer to that discussion is none. Hugh MacIntyre is a libertarian blogger at The Shotgun and he has what should [...]
Jay Currie has a postthat notes that Section 13 of Canada's Human Rights Act is effectively suspended because one of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal's members, Edward Lustig, refuses to hear Section 13 cases any more, at least until the Federal Court has rendered its decision in Warman v. Lemire. This is the latest victory for free speech. Kathy Shaidle has thoughts on this too.
In my post yesterday, I explained that I didn't engage Marci McDonald's argument about Stephen Harper's alignment with social conservatives in my review because of a lack of space in the June issue of the paper. So I'll do it a little bit here. First, I want to highlight a National Post column from last week by Gerry Nicholls in which the former [...]