One week from now the Building a Global Culture of Life conference in Ottawa will be winding down. Here is the conference schedule. You can register here. The hotel where the conference is being held (Hampton Inn Hotel and Conference Centre) is all booked, but the Chimo Hotel is just a five-minute drive from the conference centre and they have a few [...]
The Ontario government’s equity and inclusive education strategy “represents a violation of parental rights and religious freedom,” according to a trustee candidate for the York Region District School Board who is demanding the strategy be repealed. At the same time, a Catholic trustee in the Toronto Catholic District School Board says he believes the strategy is designed with the aim [...]
I usually do not put much stock in the message that falls to the table when I crack open my Chinese Fortune Cookie. I fully expect it to be positive, reassuring, and designed not to interfere with my digestion. Nonetheless, my most recent experience with this confectionary was a deviation from the norm and much more philosophical than usual. It read: “To [...]
There’s a scene early on in The September Issue, a recent documentary about Vogue magazine’s doorstopper-sized fall edition, which must have made the filmmakers gasp when they knew they had it captured. At Paris fashion week, an unnamed but very chic-looking woman stage-whispers in French into the ear of a highly improbable man named Andre Leon Talley that “Anna is the most [...]
WorldNetDaily reports: Nearly 70 years after being molested repeatedly by her own father, "Esther White" (a pseudonym) is speaking out in hope of prompting Congress to investigate the controversial research. White said she would be willing to testify in person on Capitol Hill if an investigation results in opening the Kinsey Institute files to public scrutiny. When his "research" wasn't actually threatening [...]
Andrea Mrozek in C2C Journal on the impending full decriminalization of prostitution: While honest citizens must protest the current situation — minors and trafficked women in “massage parlours” — it is just as important to protest the pending complete decriminalization. Greater freedom will not be the outcome. Rather, those fighting for good in our country will have fewer tools at their disposal, [...]
Next week is the international pro-life conference in Ottawa (October 28-30). Two of the feature speakers, Dr. Jack Willke and John Smeaton, have more than three-quarters of a century experience between the pair of them. We write about them in the October Interim. On October 30, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is having a fundraising dinner to honour Ezra Levant and [...]
Article from the October edition is now online: "What is the government’s position on funding foreign abortion?" Here's the bottom line from that article: The government has failed to clearly articulate what it is up to: is there abortion funding through CIDA or third parties that is not included in its maternal health initiative? While the government has resisted pressure to include [...]
Fifteen years ago this month Naomi Wolf, the prominent American feminist, published a striking article in the New Republic entitled “Rethinking Pro-Choice Rhetoric: Our Bodies, Our Souls.” Highly critical of the dehumanizing rhetoric of the pro-choice movement, Wolf argued that feminists must reject morally neutral language to describe abortion and dehumanizing euphemisms to describe the child in the womb. Feminists, Wolf argued, [...]
In this issue, we cover recent developments in abortion, euthanasia, and human trafficking. Abortion and euthanasia are clearly pro-life issues: both involve the termination of innocent human life. This link can be stretched to meaninglessness to include all issues, but all three quite clearly are connected to the devaluing of human beings. Abortion justifies killing by denying the humanity of the child [...]
This past Spring, the Conservative government seemed confused about the message, if not its actual plan, when it came to funding abortion and contraception through its maternal health initiative. When the initiative first appeared in the newspapers, it was reported that Bev Oda, the Minister for International Co-operation and Minister Responsible for the Canadian International Development Agency, was being advised by the [...]
Two leaders of the international pro-life movement, who have more than three-quarters of a century of pro-life experience between them, will be in Ottawa Oct. 28-30 for the Building a Global Culture of Life conference. Dr. Jack Willke, president of the International Right to Life Federation, began working in the pro-life movement in 1971. John Smeaton, national director of the Society for [...]
One of the speakers at the 2010 International Pro-Life Conferenc, Building a Global Culture of Life, will be Faytene Kryskow, an author and influential young speaker involved in full-time Christian ministry in Canada. She provides leadership for TheCRY Canada and the MYCanada Association. She told The Interim that “TheCRY mobilizes the church from across denominations and generations in full days [...]
Writing about the pro-life students are Carleton University who were arrested for taking part in the Genocide Awareness Project, Michael Coren says in the forthcoming (November) Interim which goes to press later this week: If anybody walking past the display didn’t agree with it they only had to do what social conservatives have been told to do for decades every time they complain about [...]
Lawyer John Carpay in the Calgary Herald on the free speech battle of pro-lifers at the University of Calgary on an important and overlooked aspect of this issue: the status of the university as a public institution: The U of C tells Alberta taxpayers that it is "a place of education and scholarly inquiry" with a mission "to seek truth and disseminate [...]