Expect to hear a lot of the term gendercide in the next while, in part because of Mara Hvistendahl's new book, Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, And The Consequences Of A World Full Of Men. The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada has released a discussion paper on the topic. The subject is finally getting some much-needed and overdue attention. As always, Mark Steyn sums up [...]
On June 3, euthanasia advocate and convicted murderer Jack Kevorkian passed away naturally in Royal Oak, Michigan after being hospitalized for difficulties connected to pneumonia and kidney problems. His death occasioned laudatory obituaries in the media that ignored the man’s ghoulish history. The Detroit News and Washington Post compared him to civil rights heroes, fighting for what the News euphemistically referred [...]
When Tom Wappel was first elected to Parliament in 1988, he recalls that 40 per cent or more of the Liberal caucus was pro-life, or held traditional values. But by the time he left federal politics and retired as MP for Scarborough Southwest in 2008, he was one of the last remaining pro-life MPs in caucus. The same year, [...]
One of two main stories from the July issue focuses on the disappearance of the pro-life Liberal and how it affects both the Liberal Party and the pro-life movement.
Samara is having a contest for the best political book in Canada over the past 25 years and Ezra Levant's Shakedown: How Our Government is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights is nominated. Levant's book and personal ordeal dealing with the human rights commission industry in Canada has done more than anything or anyone to highlight the threat to personal liberty inherent [...]
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson paradoxically rushed to affirm his belief in the “right to choose” only hours after declaring an honorary day of recognition for the unborn’s right to life in Canada. As thousands of pro-lifers gathered on Parliament Hill May 12 to demand protections for Canada’s unborn, the mayor of Canada’s capital city is facing controversy over his declaration that May [...]
Canada According to an Abacus Data Inc. poll, 52 per cent of Canadians say “we shouldn’t be afraid to debate” abortion, that 49 per cent think abortion should not be fully covered at taxpayer expense, and only 22 per cent support the status quo of abortion permitted through all nine months without limit. While 27 per cent say human life should be [...]
Large-scale daycare centres and programs do not appear to be improving the educational outcomes of children. Economics professor Pierre Lefebvre of the Université du Québec à Montréal conducted research between 1994 and 2006 on children under five from Quebec and the rest of Canada that showed Quebec’s heavily-subsidized provincial daycare system, which costs parents just $7 per day, is not advancing children’s [...]
The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association filed a lawsuit challenging Canada’s ban on assisted suicide. The suit was filed in the province’s Supreme Court on April 26 on behalf of Lee and Hollis Johnson. The couple took Lee’s mother, 89-year-old Kay Carter, to Switzerland in January 2010 to have her killed by lethal injection, a crime that is punishable in Canada by [...]
Swiss voters rejected a proposal to ban assisted suicide and suicide tourism in the Canton (political district) of Zurich. In a referendum on May 15, about 85 per cent of voters in Zurich rejected a proposal to end legalized assisted suicide while about 78 per cent rejected a separate proposal to stop the practice of suicide tourism by foreigners in their Canton. [...]
The federally funded Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent on Recordings (FACTOR) has drawn criticism over its financial support of a punk album that features anti-Christian artwork. Canadian punk group Living with Lions’ new album, titled “Holy S**t,” features cover art that looks like a Bible, is subtitled “The Poo Testament,” and depicts Christ as excrement. Black Box Recordings, Inc. received $13,248 from FACTOR. [...]
A Green Party candidate in the recent federal election said he was glad that his unborn child was aborted. According to the Terrace Standard, Roger Benham, running in the riding of Skeena-Bulkley Valley in British Columbia, inarticulatedly stated during the candidates’ debate on April 20 that “I am sick to death about hearing murdering babies.” After admitting that he got a woman [...]
Radio personality and Toronto Sun columnist Jerry Agar writes about the issue most commentators have danced around: the Gay Pride Parade features elements that the mayor of the city of Toronto (or any mayor) might not want to be involved with: Are the streets of the city an appropriate place for public nudity and for throwing condoms to kids in the crowd? Portions of [...]
In his Sun column Warren Kinsella claims that up to 15% of the population is homosexual. Kathy Shaidle critiques the column. She does a great job explaining why Kinsella is wrong, but we should understand where Kinsella is coming from. It is possible, I suppose, that Warren Kinsella's Toronto is 15% gay -- downtown TO and Liberal circles are disproportionately populated by homosexuals and gay-friendly straights [...]
Rory Leishman in the June issue of The Interim on Ontario's schools, the power of teachers' unions, and a lesson from the United Kingdom: The teachers’ unions prefer Liberals and New Democrats who promise to augment the huge increases in spending lavished on the province’s under-performing public and Catholic school systems over the past eight years of Liberal rule. Bottom line: the [...]