While heroes pay the bills in Hollywood, the creative class labouring in movies and TV are in thrall to anti-heroes, a mad love reinforced in the hymns sung by critics hardwired to prefer a menacing, flawed protagonist to a clear-browed, virtuous one. Batman versus Superman, if you will, and a loaded choice ultimately corrosive to the audience’s moral clarity, especially [...]
For the first time, Gallup has a majority of respondents supporting same-sex "marriage". The question is pretty straightforward, so the results are not tied to a faulty or biased question. I think that this represents a legitimate tilt in American public opinion. Does that mean Washington or the states should jump on board to permit homosexual marriage? Absolutely not. First, morality is [...]
EFC Legal Counsel Faye Sonier gave an excellent, three-minute speech at the National March for Life in Ottawa last week. You can watch it here.
The 40 Days for Life campaign in Toronto was a great success. Five weeks into the campaign, the organizer for 40 Days for Life Toronto reported that at least three babies had been saved. 40 Days for Life is a worldwide campaign that seeks to raise awareness about the evil of abortion through prayer and fasting, a vigil in front of an [...]
But pro-lifers say the comparison is accurate The University of Calgary pro-life group is facing a backlash over a display comparing abortion to genocide. Campus Pro-Life erected a new display in late March behind a glass case at the university’s Student Centre. It consists of 290 pairs of baby shoes, symbolizing the 290 Canadian children that die from abortion every day. A [...]
Last week 15,000 Canadians took part in the largest annual demonstration on Parliament Hill, marking Canada's Day of Infamy and demanding justice for the unborn. (On May 13, 1969 Canada effectively legalized abortion-on-demand.) LifeSiteNews reports on the National March for Life and the media coverage it received. For years the media largely ignored the march, but when 15,000 people show up on the step of Parliament, [...]
A pro-life billboard in Manhattan was taken down on Feb. 24 owing to its controversial but truthful content. The huge ad showed a black girl with the words “The most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb.” The poster was part of an advertising campaign by the pro-life organization, Life Always, directing viewers to the website ThatsAbortion.com. It was [...]
The National March for Life will be held in Ottawa tomorrow, May 12. There are also provincial marches for life across most of the country. If you cannot attend any of them, you can watch live online. And Ottawa mayor Jim Watson has proclaimed that May 12 be honored as ‘Respect for Life Day’ in the city. As Andrea Mrozek said, "I can’t [...]
Michael Ignatieff: F Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff seems bent on moving his party to a more radical position on abortion and family issues. He supports abortion-on-demand and believes it should be a “protected right”. In 2010, he pressed the government to include abortion as part of its G8 maternal health initiative. He supports same-sex “marriage.” In 2010, in support of a bill [...]
Pre-campaign – Budget and contempt On March 22, the Conservatives introduced their 2011 federal budget which featured a number of family friendly items: the Family Caregiver Tax Credit (a 15 per cent non-refundable tax credit up to $2,000 for those who care for dependent relatives), $3 million to “support the development of new community-integrated palliative care models,” and a 15 per cent [...]
In the May issue Interim columnist Rory Leishman writes about why Canada should hold a referendum on abortion funding. Leishman says: A referendum is a powerful tool for educating voters. If a referendum on abortion funding were to get underway in Canada, chances are that as more and more Canadians considered the issue, the proportion opposed to the current regime of full [...]
On May 2, Canadians will go to the polls to elect members of the 41st Parliament and, even now, the mainstream media is shaping the simplified story that will be told about the day’s results. The upcoming election will be taken as some sort of referendum about the incumbent government and, with no more precision than the ancient augurers, a legion of [...]
Every year since 1976, the United States Congress has adopted the “Hyde Amendment,” a legislative enactment banning the use of federal funds to pay for abortions except in the case of rape, incest or danger to the life of the mother. In addition, most of the states likewise ban public funding for abortions. Within the United States, these measures have [...]
Saanich-Gulf Islands Conservative MP Gary Lunn is Minister of State (Sport) and won re-election by nearly 2600 votes in 2008 over Liberal Briony Penn, but this time he is facing Green Party leader Elizabeth May and the other left-of-centre parties are pulling back their efforts in an apparent attempt to help her knock off the incumbent. Lunn is rated pro-life and pro-family [...]
Campaign Life Coalition says that May 12, just ten days after the Canadian federal election, is the perfect time to take part in the National March for Life in Ottawa: The timing of the federal election, less than 2 weeks before our National March For Life in Ottawa could not be better. As a slew of new MPs are preparing for for work [...]