It has been 20 years since Campaign Life Coalition held a conference in Toronto (not including national and international conferences they co-sponsored), and by all accounts the June 24-25 Toronto Pro-Life Forum was a resounding success. Over 220 people attended the Friday evening banquet that featured Sun News media personality Brian Lilley as the keynote speaker, while more than [...]
Our editorial from the August issue looks at the issue of gendercide. We were very pleased with the editorial cartoon that accompanied the editorial. The conclusion of the editorial points out the hypocrisy of the feminist Left and the cost of abortion to modern society: Thus, the epidemic of prenatal female infanticide sweeping across the developing world is not the antithesis of modern feminism [...]
I am a baseball fan. I appreciate, therefore, the dramatic home run and the superlative play of those privileged individuals who are dubbed All Stars. Naturally, on the night of July 11, I turned my TV channel to the broadcast of the All Star Home Run Derby. But a strange thing happened. Despite the triadic confluence of baseball, home runs, and All Stars, [...]
Plan Canada’s recent mass media initiative is well known across the country. From television commercials to sidewalk solicitors, the global children’s charity’s new campaign, “Because I Am a Girl,” proudly announces that its purpose is “to unleash the power of girls and women,” thereby ameliorating the condition of the fairer sex in the third world. According to their promotional material: “When a [...]
LifeSiteNews.com reports that the Crossroads Walkers were banned from entering Montreal's Notre Dame Basilica to pray because the pro-vie t-shirts worn by ten youth were deemed too political by the Sulpician priests who run the basilica. My only comment: I'm not surprised.
Today marks my tenth anniversary of becoming editor of The Interim, Canada's life and family newspaper. I have a column about it in the August issue. The column is a reflection on being at the helm of "Canada's life and family newspaper" -- it was "Canada's pro-life, pro-family newspaper" when I came -- and the culture we cover. A few other thoughts that didn't make the [...]
Michael Coren is a veteran journalist and broadcaster and we are proud that he is part of our roster of columnists. We've been thrilled with the work he's done at CTS for the past 13 years and are very excited to see his new show, Coren Tonight, on Sun News begins August 22. By the way, Sun News is great -- last week [...]
Ten years ago, when I was 28 years old, I was named interim Interim co-editor and three months later the editor-in-chief of Canada’s pro-life and pro-family newspaper. During my tenure as the longest serving editor in the paper’s history there have been changes, both cosmetic and philosophical. Rather than being a paper that published pro-lifers who wrote, we became more a publication [...]