In the May issue Interim columnist Rory Leishman writes about why Canada should hold a referendum on abortion funding. Leishman says: A referendum is a powerful tool for educating voters. If a referendum on abortion funding were to get underway in Canada, chances are that as more and more Canadians considered the issue, the proportion opposed to the current regime of full [...]
On May 2, Canadians will go to the polls to elect members of the 41st Parliament and, even now, the mainstream media is shaping the simplified story that will be told about the day’s results. The upcoming election will be taken as some sort of referendum about the incumbent government and, with no more precision than the ancient augurers, a legion of [...]
Every year since 1976, the United States Congress has adopted the “Hyde Amendment,” a legislative enactment banning the use of federal funds to pay for abortions except in the case of rape, incest or danger to the life of the mother. In addition, most of the states likewise ban public funding for abortions. Within the United States, these measures have [...]
Saanich-Gulf Islands Conservative MP Gary Lunn is Minister of State (Sport) and won re-election by nearly 2600 votes in 2008 over Liberal Briony Penn, but this time he is facing Green Party leader Elizabeth May and the other left-of-centre parties are pulling back their efforts in an apparent attempt to help her knock off the incumbent. Lunn is rated pro-life and pro-family [...]
Campaign Life Coalition says that May 12, just ten days after the Canadian federal election, is the perfect time to take part in the National March for Life in Ottawa: The timing of the federal election, less than 2 weeks before our National March For Life in Ottawa could not be better. As a slew of new MPs are preparing for for work [...]
Belatedly The Interim wishes every mother a Happy Mother's Day, and echo the sentiment in this Frank Klees tweet: "Happy Mother's Day to all who have that awesome responsibility. You all deserve to be nominated for Sainthood." As we editorialized last year: The family is the school of love and it is taught only as it is given. The cultural problems arising [...]
Earlier today Oz Clark complained that Ontario PC leader Tim Hudak flip-flopped on HRCs and the Tory leader deserves to be criticized for doing so. But I want to add to Clark's comments on political parties broadening support. Clark observes that often politicians seek to broaden support by abandoning the positions that got them elected leader in the first place (this happens on both the Left [...]
I was disappointed but not surprised to see Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak backtrack on his leadership race campaign promise to scrap the Ontario Human Rights Commission. When Hudak ran for the PC leadership in 2009, he said he favoured using courts to prosecute cases where legal niceties such as presumption of innocence and evidence are taken into consideration and thus get rid of [...]
Harold Albrecht is the Conservative MP from Kitchener-Conestoga and is a principled pro-life, pro-family conservative. On Monday night as he and his wife Betty were preparing to go to the victory party -- he had just won a third term -- she suffered a spontaneous intracranial hemorrhagea. Betty died yesterday. She was 59. By all accounts Betty was a supportive wife in all of [...]
Steve Jalsevac of LifeSiteNews has a good commentary on the Canadian election in which he calls for more engagement with our elected officials. He says it is the responsibility of MPs to uphold what is right, not to slavishly follow the party leader. It is our responsibility to ensure MPs are educated about moral issues, especially in light of the failure of so-called religious leaders to [...]
Here is my first initial take on the election which resulted in Conservative majority, the historically large NDP opposition, halving the Liberal caucus and practically eliminating the separatist (and socially left-wing) Bloc Quebecois. Several pro-life Conservative incumbents who were thought to be vulnerable (Kelly Block, Stephen Woodworth) did well, but by my count, the majority of pro-life Liberals lost (Alan Tonks, Paul Szabo, Dan McTeague). There is [...]
More than 120 people participated in the kickoff rally for 40 Days for Life in Kitchener to hear several guest speakers and hear inspirational music as they prepared for the Lenten vigil to pray for an end to abortion. Retired auxiliary bishop Matthew Ustrzycki of the Hamilton diocese and Debbie Fisher of the Silent No More Awareness campaign spoke and [...]
Toronto scientists at Mount Sinai Hospital have discovered problems in using reprogrammed stem cells for personalized organ repair. “It looks like the reprogramming process which creates (embryonic-like) stem cells from skin cells is creating damage or mutations,” said Andras Nagy, one of the lead authors of the study published in the journal Nature. These cells, known as induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS [...]
On Monday, March 7, a downtown Toronto courtroom took a trip back in time to the early 1990s and the days of NDP rule in Ontario, when the government of premier Bob Rae and attorney general Marion Boyd attempted to squelch pro-life activism throughout the province by way of a wide-ranging court injunction. It was part of the first day of a [...]
Linda Gibbons, who has been arrested more than 20 times in connection to activities near a Toronto abortuary, will get her day in court. The Supreme Court of Canada, that is. Gibbons, who prays outside abortion the Scott abortuary on Gerrard Street in downtown Toronto and counsels women to not kill their babies, has never been charged with violating the 1994 “temporary” [...]