Toronto mayor Rob Ford said he would not take part in the Pride Parade festivities, nor will he be present next Tuesday for the rainbow flag raising at city hall. Instead of taking part in the Pride Parade, Ford said he would do what he does every Canada Day weekend and head to the family cottage in Muskoka. This should not be controversial, [...]
Interim Amusements columnist Rick McGinnis examines the HBO series Game of Thrones in the June issue. McGinnis says: [A]ny Christian knows that, flowing above history’s battlefields are the clouds and sky of our moral striving, constantly inspiring us to look above the wreckage and failure. The world of Game Of Thrones is intent on the battlefield and its carnage, and while it [...]
Sun TV star Brian Lilley is the banquet speaker for this weekend's Pro-Life Forum. You can attend the banquet Friday night separate from the Forum that takes place Saturday. Info is here. This is a last call because organizers need to finalize banquet numbers. Call the number in the ad Wednesday or Thursday to attend. If you can't make it, please consider a donation [...]
Mercatornet has a good article by Peter Saunders who declares himself homosceptical -- skeptical of the claims made by the gay rights lobby to normalize their lifestyle. A great term to replace the grammatically illogical homophobic.
From the June issue: "The importance of fathers." The bottom line: both parents are necessary.
The May issue could have been 32 pages or more. It was a big month for news since our last issue came out. Our beloved former columnist Fr. Ted Colleton passed away April 26. On May 2, there was transformational federal election. On May 13, Ottawa witnessed the largest-ever National March for Life, and successful regional marches were held coast-to-coast. How to [...]
What will it take for Canadians finally to rebel against the abuse of power by Canada’s immensely wealthy and politically intimidating teachers’ unions. On May 4, about 12,000 unionized Saskatchewan teachers walked off the job in one-day protest strike against lagging contract negotiations. Students lost a day of schooling and parents were given little notice of the impending strike, yet picketing [...]
The recent federal election result was predictable -- Harper got his long sought majority -- but how it came about was totally unpredictable and astonishing. There’s an interesting side-story that isn’t getting much coverage. The left-leaning media did their level best to piggyback Ignatieff and his Liberal crew to victory but failed. When it became obvious that Plan A had failed, they [...]
C.S. Lewis, Thomas Aquinas, Socrates, Kierkegaard, Bieber. Or something like that. Up until quite recently I haven’t regarded 16-year-old pop sensation, and little girl heartthrob, Justin Bieber as a particularly great moral philosopher and academic ethicist, but I have to admit that I think I got it terribly wrong. Jest aside, the Canadian kid who makes pre-teens weep and scream at [...]
“I go to jazz festivals every chance I get,” Bimson said. “They’re really inclusive. At the last one I attended the organizers included rock, hip hop, rhythm and blues, country, folk, Latin, reggae and klesmer.” “That’s inclusive, all right,” Molder said. “You bet it is,” said Bimson, “why, they even included jazz.” “Isn’t that carrying inclusiveness too far?” “Only if you [...]
The Christian Heritage Party ran 46 candidates in eight provinces and received 19,218 votes or 0.13 per cent nationally. A CHP spokesman said the presence of the party’s candidates ensured that voters who wanted to cast a vote for a pro-life candidate could. Christian Heritage Candidates No CHP candidate finished better than fifth and leading vote-getters for the party were Geoffrey Capp [...]
Before I say anything else about Game Of Thrones, this Spring’s big-budget HBO epic miniseries, it has to be understood that there’s nothing family friendly about the show. Full of blood and sex, full-frontal nudity, incest, animal cruelty and some wildly explicit language, it almost seems like the producers, having seen quality cable push the boundaries with each new series, are attempting [...]
Recent attacks on the family often become attacks on fatherhood. For instance, figures from Hollywood have embraced alternative family structures, questioning or mocking the importance of a father figure. Actress Jennifer Aniston in August 2010 said that fathers are unnecessary, especially since now there is no need “to fiddle with a man to have that child.” Another example is the positive portrayal [...]
Last year when Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper steadfastly refused to include abortion in his maternal health initiative he brought to the G8 summit Canada hosted in June, he was chastised for being out of step with international norms on acknowledging the supposed central importance of abortion in addressing maternal health and infant mortality. But according to the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion research outfit, abortion [...]
Information about Campaign Life Coalition's June 24-25 Toronto Forum featuring Brian Lilley as the banquet speaker can be found in this ad. The banquet speech by Lilley can be attended for just $75, but he is worth the price of admission for the full conference ($145).