Tracy Clemenger, the co-author of the article, “Canada’s 30,000 Adoptable Children in a Labyrinth of Policy and Social Issues” in the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada’s Faith Today magazine, is the parent of an adopted child. She and her husband, Bruce, “saw it as a natural expression of what it means to be a Christian,” she told The Interim. They used the public [...]
Eunice and Owen Johns, 62 and 65, have just last month been ruled by the highest British court to be unsuitable as foster parents. They’re renowned as wonderful people, they do extraordinary outreach in their own English midlands black community, they give large amounts of their time and money to charity, and they have successfully and selflessly cared for 15 [...]
Abortion requires obfuscation, cannot survive the Truth Ten days after Remembrance Day (November 21, 2010), the Toronto Star, Canada’s highest-circulation newspaper, ran a massive four-page “Insight” feature explaining how an abortionist can reconcile his strong support for “women’s rights” with his personal life. One might imagine a future Remembrance Day when the unborn are remembered and memorialized. Major John McCrae’s celebrated poem [...]
Have a Happy Easter everyone. Yesterday we promised that we's post today the top 10 candidates we want to see lose. That will have to wait until next week as events took over my day in ways I did not anticipate. We'll also post most of our election coverage from the May issue (in the mail now) over the course of next week. Check back regularly for [...]
There must be about ten days left in the campaign and the Tories must be ahead because the abortion card has been played with a vengeance. In short, a number of media outlets -- Sun News' David Akin, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, CBC, Canadian Press, in total Google News lists more than 120 stories -- have covered the story about [...]
Cecile Richards is president of Planned Parenthood and she's been everywhere in the media lately defending her organization against various criminal and ethics breaches as well as frantically responding to efforts in Congress to defund her organization. Such visibility is often mistaken for influence, and Time magazine (yes, it is still around) has named Richards to their new list of the 100 most influential [...]
Inspired by two posts by Gerry Nicholls (here and here), on Thursday we'll publish online our list of the top 10 candidates we want to see lose from our pro-life, pro-family perspective.
The first two stories appeared on the weekend. I apologize for our tardiness. We got the dead tree version of our paper out yesterday so there hasn't bee time to blog the past few days. On the weekend, former Liberal strategist Warren Kinsella had a column in the Toronto Sun that said if Stephen Harper wins with a majority, he'll radically change Canada. [...]
Toronto Star columnist Bob Hepburn writes about the Religious Right and how they are a "force" for the Conservatives. It is all meant to scare voters -- or at least those who read the Toronto Star. You see, despite denying any intention to re-open issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage, Harper can't be trusted because he has the gall to employ a few [...]
Yesterday during the leaders debate, Gilles Duceppe brought up the issue of abortion, but Stephen Harper did not take the bait. Rather than reiterating his line about not intending to re-open the issue is he wins a majority -- and therefore risk alienating his social conservative base -- Harper talked about his crime agenda. As part of a weekly series at the [...]
Editor’s Note: Interim reporter Pauline Kosalka interviewed David Bereit by email. Bereit is founder of 40 Days for Life and the keynote speaker at the Rose Dinner in Ottawa, May 12. The Interim: How did you first become involved in the pro-life movement? David Bereit: I first got involved in the pro-life movement after meeting, dating, and then marrying, my [...]
Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe brought up abortion and capital punishment -- somehow in the context of young offenders.
Sadly but unsurprisingly there is nothing much to report from the daily campaign. That's probably because the leaders are focusing on tonight's leaders' debate. What are the odds that moral issues are raised tonight 1) by the moderator or 2) the Liberal or NDP leader as an attack on Stephen Harper's hidden agenda? By our (far from scientific) estimates, the latter is three times more [...]
Here's a paper (pdf) on environmentalism as, if not a religion, a substitute for religion. We've written about this before -- here and here. As I noted last year, "similarities between old-time fundamentalist religion and new-age (even pantheistic) environmentalism is stunning."
Ecologists keep warning us about greenhouse gases and the changes in climate they allegedly cause. There is much to fear, they say, from global warming. Well, I’ve just learned that one of the chief greenhouse gases is nitrous oxide. Nitrous oxide is laughing gas. What is there to fear from global laughing? Instead of climate change, ecologists should focus on [...]