Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think by Bryan Caplan (Basic Books, $29, 228 pages) Bryan Caplan is a libertarian thinker and economics professor at George Mason University. He is always provocative and is one of my favourite writers. I was without a doubt going to enjoy his latest [...]
On June 29, the Ontario Court of Appeals unanimously upheld the Rasouli decision by Susan Himel -– doctors have to obtain consent before withdrawing life-sustaining treatment. The three judge Ontario Court of Appeals panel stated: “We are of the view that the application judge reached the correct result in this case. In short, we are satisfied that the plan of care [...]
Though student pro-life leaders have many great ideas to impact their campus, oftentimes they lack the funds to do an event or campaign effectively. While balancing the club with their classes, jobs and other commitments, it can be difficult to fundraise. Thanks to collaboration among three pro-life organizations, a new grant of $1,500 is now being offered [...]
The Ottawa Citizen reports on the Conservative government in Ottawa giving new funding to the International Planned Parenthood Federation. It is a fine story as far as it goes but what struck me is the picture that goes with it. Editors want some sort of illustration to go with stories, both in the paper and on the internet, and as stories about abortion so often do, [...]
If there was any other prominent politician more worthy of getting booted out of public office than Premier of Ontario Dalton McGuinty, I don’t know who it is. McGuinty, who claims to be Catholic, has a Liberal MPP mouthpiece give a glowing welcoming address on his behalf to the Toronto Pride parade officials recently. This flies in the face of the Catholic [...]
The people in charge of setting the dates for elections for provincial elections do not seem to be considering the publishing schedule of monthly publications such as The Interim. With five provincial or territorial elections within an eight-day period near the beginning of October, starting with Prince Edward Island and Northwest Territories on Oct. 3 and ending Oct. 11 in Newfoundland and [...]
In contrast to the new direction of Ontario’s Family Coalition Party, the Prince Edward Island Family Party is clear about its pro-life policies. It states 14 pro-life and pro-family policies that can be enacted at the provincial level, and does not flinch from using the word abortion. The PEI Family Party states unequivicoally that he would urge “the federal government to restore [...]
Make no mistake: the Family Coalition Party is as pro-life as it has ever been. They just want to pursue a new direction. In their new party platform, the words “abortion” and “pro-life” never appear. While one assumes that an opposition to abortion is still a part of their rather full slate of social, economic, and energy policies, we are embarrassed by [...]
It is, and always has been, a serious criminal offence in Canada for anyone to counsel or assist another person to commit suicide. Time and again, the advocates of euthanasia have vainly tried to get Parliament to change that law. In the most recent attempt, former Bloc Quebecois MP Francine Lalonde introduced a private members’ bill into Parliament in 2009 [...]
A fall 40 Days for Life campaign will be held in London, Ont., the first time the city will host the event. 40 Days for Life is a prayerful, peaceful campaign with the purpose of showing people the evils of abortion. It originated in the United States and has been already held in 337 cities around the world and was brought to [...]
Rick McGinnis reviews Ben Shapiro's Primetime Propaganda in which our columnist explains why primetime television has become a tool of the Left. An excerpt: The cornerstone of his analysis, though, is that moment in the late ‘60s when ABC, the also-ran of the Big Three, made a brilliant marketing move that still affects us today. Locked out of the top end of the ratings by essentially [...]
Kathy Shaidle has an article at Taki's Magazine on Canadian Christian activist Bill Whatcott (a former member of The Interim's editorial advisory board in the 1990s). It looks at Whatcott's anti-homosexualist and anti-abortion crusades, warts and all, and most importantly places it within the context of the Unofficial Official War on Christianity: Whatcott’s is the latest case comprising what looks suspiciously like [...]
Television is the most modern, the most omnipresent, and the most pervasive of all the media arts, which is the reason I devote so much time in this column to analyzing its effect on our culture. It’s not hard to understand why; unless parents have made the conscious decision to take TV out of their home, it’s likely that the average child [...]
Hudak draws Liberal flack for supporting defunding petition On July 15, Liberal strategist Warren Kinsella, author of Kicking Ass in Canadian Politics, attacked Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak for allegedly being a socially conservative extremist. Kinsella wrote on his blog that “Hudak would defund abortion,” adding, “it hasn’t been particularly been a secret. It’s just some people hadn’t noticed.” [...]
There is a story in the September issue about The Interim co-sponsored Fr. Ted Essay contest. High school students can earn serious dough (first prize is $1500, with second and third prizes of $800 and $500 respectively) by writing an 800-1000 word essay on the topic of “Is there cause for pro-life optimism regarding the abortion issue in Canada?” If you know any pro-life high school students, [...]