Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men by Mara Hvistendahl (Public Affairs, $31.50, 313 pages) A book authored by Science’s Beijing correspondent has garnered a lot of attention for pointing out that a combination of depopulation ideology, ultrasound technology, and late-term abortion has led to what Mara Hvistendahl has called “163 million missing women,” [...]
As I write this, a petition asking that the producers of Sesame Street perform a gay marriage between Bert and Ernie, two beloved characters on the long-running children’s television show, has gotten over 9,000 signatures. It seems like a silly sideshow while civil wars rage in the Middle East, riots smoulder in London and the world economy continues to teeter and creak, [...]
Here's our report from the August issue of the recent Toronto Pro-Life Forum. Brian Lilley was a fantastic speaker to kick off the weekend event and the entire lineup of Saturday speakers reinforced the very positive, life-affirming message that the pro-life movement is indeed the pro-love movement. There are other regional pro-life conferences in the Fall in Ontario, including the eastern Ontario conference in Kingston on October 29 [...]
Two of 12 declared, likely or possible Republican candidates for the party's presidential nomination are rated as too pro-life by NARAL Pro-Choice America although two have supported NARAL-backed pro-choice measures in the past (former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty). Pawlenty is very certainly pro-life who signed a few bills he shouldn't have because the bill was overall [...]
New tests will reveal a baby's sex at seven weeks. Ostensibly, this information can be used by parents "at risk" of passing on sex-based diseases, although even in most of those cases, the result will not be treatment of the disease but the elimination of the baby. Andrea Mrozek says this will used for target and eliminate girls babies. Indeed, everyone knows that it [...]
One of the Abortioneers raises an interesting point that is highlighted by Jiving J at Jill Stanek: I’ve never had an abortion. I’ve never even had a pregnancy scare, though that’s probably more because of the lack of opportunity than anything else. Sometimes I start to think that I could have just a teeny bit more Abortioneer cred if I had had [...]
On June 29, the Ontario Court of Appeal unanimously upheld a lower court decision requiring doctors to obtain consent from substitute decision-makers before withdrawing life-support, where such a decision is anticipated to result in the death of the patient. The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition applauded the unanimous decision. The Court of Appeal ruled that it is necessary for doctors to raise any [...]
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 [...]