Belatedly The Interim wishes every mother a Happy Mother's Day, and echo the sentiment in this Frank Klees tweet: "Happy Mother's Day to all who have that awesome responsibility. You all deserve to be nominated for Sainthood." As we editorialized last year: The family is the school of love and it is taught only as it is given. The cultural problems arising [...]
Earlier today Oz Clark complained that Ontario PC leader Tim Hudak flip-flopped on HRCs and the Tory leader deserves to be criticized for doing so. But I want to add to Clark's comments on political parties broadening support. Clark observes that often politicians seek to broaden support by abandoning the positions that got them elected leader in the first place (this happens on both the Left [...]
I was disappointed but not surprised to see Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak backtrack on his leadership race campaign promise to scrap the Ontario Human Rights Commission. When Hudak ran for the PC leadership in 2009, he said he favoured using courts to prosecute cases where legal niceties such as presumption of innocence and evidence are taken into consideration and thus get rid of [...]
Harold Albrecht is the Conservative MP from Kitchener-Conestoga and is a principled pro-life, pro-family conservative. On Monday night as he and his wife Betty were preparing to go to the victory party -- he had just won a third term -- she suffered a spontaneous intracranial hemorrhagea. Betty died yesterday. She was 59. By all accounts Betty was a supportive wife in all of [...]
Steve Jalsevac of LifeSiteNews has a good commentary on the Canadian election in which he calls for more engagement with our elected officials. He says it is the responsibility of MPs to uphold what is right, not to slavishly follow the party leader. It is our responsibility to ensure MPs are educated about moral issues, especially in light of the failure of so-called religious leaders to [...]
Here is my first initial take on the election which resulted in Conservative majority, the historically large NDP opposition, halving the Liberal caucus and practically eliminating the separatist (and socially left-wing) Bloc Quebecois. Several pro-life Conservative incumbents who were thought to be vulnerable (Kelly Block, Stephen Woodworth) did well, but by my count, the majority of pro-life Liberals lost (Alan Tonks, Paul Szabo, Dan McTeague). There is [...]