From Thomas Sowell: Make no mistake about it, letting old people die is a lot cheaper than spending the kind of money required to keep them alive and well. If a government-run medical system is going to save any serious amount of money, it is almost certain to do so by sacrificing the elderly. Real compassion, as Sowell makes abundantly clear in [...]
For years, professional journalists have touted their superiority by noting that they have fact-checkers and editors (which is barely true in many publications today, but that's another issue). This correction in the Toronto Star yesterday, however, shows that even publications that have editors and fact-checkers maybe aren't worth the paper they produce each day: News corrections for May 11 An excerpt from veteran [...]
The National Post has an excellent editorial on the feds nixing funding for the Gay Pride Parade in Toronto. People have asked me why is LifeSiteNews "obsessed" with the possibility of the Toronto Star buying the Post and I only have to point to editorials like this one that provides a rare dissent from the politically correct orthodoxy that finds funding special [...]
Catholic Insight has issued a statement strongly opposing a proposal in Toronto city council to allow stores to open on Christmas and Easter. Bottom line: "The greedy, the godless, and the childless want to steal the last few holidays from the working and middle classes." The course of action suggested by CI: Please lobby your councillor to vote No to holiday store [...]
The Globe and Mail reported that the Conservative government was under fire yesterday for refusing to fund Toronto's Gay Pride Parade. “Why does ideology trump economics in this Conservative government?” Brampton Liberal MP Navdeep Bains asked. He was criticizing the decision to cut funding to Toronto’s gay pride parade; last year Ottawa gave the event $400,000 in funding under its marquee tourism program. [...]
Our lead May editorial on the student union at McGill placing onerous restrictions on the pro-life club there. The editorial concludes: Thus, by abusing their little brief authority, the SSMU is besmirching McGill’s good name and its prized ideals. The final indignity in this sordid affair, however, is the administration’s refusal to criticize the SSMU’s disgraceful actions. Declining to comment on the [...]
Extensive coverage of Roxanne's Law from the May issue is now available online. Notable point beyond the confines of this bill is Rod Bruinooge's comment that the backlash against the bill and the PMO's distancing itself from it confirmed the “ineligibility of abortion as a matter to be discussed in Canada.”
Eight pro-life students at the University of Calgary have been found guilty of a major violation under the non-academic misconduct policy. It isn't quite clear what the punishment will be, but it could be a reprimand, it could be an expulsion (and a range of punishments between). “We are going to challenge this verdict,” stated Alanna Campbell, president of Campus Pro Life said [...]
The London Free Press notes that back in 1982, then Liberal MP Garnet Bloomfield was the lone Grit to vote against repatriating the constitution. Bloomfield voted against the Constitution Act of 1982 because it did not protect the right to life. Bloomfield is a tremendously principled politician. He voted against his prime minister and his party on an issue of utmost importance. The [...]
Rory Leishman is The Interim's national affairs columnist, but he also pens a regular column for the London Free Press. This week he tackles sex ed, not only in elementary and high school but at the university. It is pretty shocking what the University of Western Ontario allows to go in its classrooms. Leishman notes: Sex education on the post-secondary level in Canada is [...]
The Canadian Catholic bishops have spoke out firmly against abortion in a message just days before the 41st anniversary of Canada's day of infamy, the passing of the Omnibus Bill in 1969, in which Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Justice Minister John Turner -- both 'Catholics' -- effectively legalized abortion on demand. Today, the Catholic bishops say civilization itself is under assault from [...]
It was not the “pro-African-American movement,” it was the “anti-slavery movement;” the messages have not been “pro-sober driving” or “pro-clean air,” but “anti-drinking and driving” and “anti-smoking.” For too long, many of our pamphlets have been whimsical pastels and dissembling language. We are “anti-abortion” and that’s how we should identify ourselves. Though most of us who are opposed to abortion are conservative [...]
Last October, Jose Ruba of the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform visited the McGill University campus to present a display entitled, “Echoes of the Holocaust,” which drew parallels between the Nazi Holocaust and an atrocity which is still perpetrated and perpetuated today: abortion. As might be expected, Ruba’s presentation was disrupted by extremists intent on violating the rights that any university ought [...]
On April 1, Britain’s Guardian newspaper reported that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown had commended the Roman Catholic Church as “the conscience of the nation.” Given the record of the Brown government, informed readers might well have dismissed the story as an April Fools Day prank. Yet the report was accurate. With a general election impending on May 6, Brown [...]
I’ve been reflecting more than usual on writing and books. What got me thinking was a conversation with a fellow author I often meet at the neighbourhood library. “My book is popular in the British Isles,” he said, excited. “You mean your self-published novel that didn’t sell?” “Copies are flying off the shelves.” “Congratulations,” I said. “You must be pleased [...]