An expert witness for the Quebec National Assembly’s Special Commission on the Issue of Dying with Dignity testified on Feb. 17 that legalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide will lead to widespread abuse and the killing of the vulnerable. Dr. François Primeau, a professor of psychiatry at Laval University and Chief of Geranto-Psychiatry at the Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis Hospital, used the Netherlands as [...]
The Montreal Gazette reports that Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe reiterates his support for separation of church and state. Asked about the case of Saguenay Mayor Jean Tremblay who has continued opening council meetings with a prayer despite a Quebec Human Rights Tribunal ruling against him, Duceppe said religion is a private matter, although he maintained Tremblay also had a right to pursue [...]
John Carpay has started the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms. The JCCF was founded last year "for the purpose of advancing and promoting the core principles of freedom and equality through education and litigation." Here is the website. Here is our Q&A with Carpay. One of JCCF's board members, Daniel Santoro, is slated to argue the case of R. v. Gibbons before [...]
In one weekend in mid-March, three veteran pro-life federal politicians announced the would not run for re-election, two of them cabinet ministers. On March 12 and 13, Stockwell Day, Chuck Strahl, and John Cummins all announced that they would not run for re-election whenever it is held. Day, president of the Treasury Board of Canada and Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway, announced [...]
Earlier this week, the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada released its Election Kit. In it they offer information to churches about what they can and cannot do during an election -- there is a lot they can legally do which fulfills their Christian obligation to inform their flocks about the responsibility of casting an informed and conscientious ballot. In short, churches must not [...]
Are Democrats threatening to close down the federal government because the Republicans won't fund the abortion industry? The New York Times suggests they might be: Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, offered a lengthier, scathing criticism of Mr. Boehner and House Republicans, accusing them of wanting to shut down the federal government by insisting on cutting funds for women’s heath services. [...]
Editor’s Note: There are book titles and quotes in this column that use language that some reader’s might find offensive. Despite my wife’s best efforts, I never had much time for the popular parenting textbooks that ended up on our bookshelves – the “What To Expect When You’re...” series and their like, all written in useful gulps of text, with diagrams and [...]
On Jan. 31, Walter Szetela, who edited the Campaign Life Coalition British Columbia newsletter for two decades, passed away at Vancouver General Hospital. Born in Chicopee, Mass., in 1928, he earned a Master’s degree in Mathematics at the University of Michigan and a doctoral degree from the University of Georgia after serving in the U.S. army. In 1970 he moved [...]
In recent weeks, a number of scandals have beset Stephen Harper’s minority government. Rumors and reports of misdemeanors and misdeeds – and the election speculations which they spur – are an irresistible combination for the Canadian political press, and journalists have eagerly documented each new discovery in painstaking detail. But, as the media runs in the direction of the latest and loudest [...]
Our Canadian election campaign watch is off today and tomorrow, as well as other bloggy musings, unless something big happens. Meetings, meetings, and more meetings are to blame.
Kathy Shaidle points to Ezra Levant who said: If we were the CBC or CTV, you wouldn’t have to ask for the channel. It would be forced on you. In fact, under Canadian broadcasting law, every cable provider must carry CBC and CTV, and every single cable subscriber (that would be you) is forced to pay for it, whether you watch it [...]
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I got an email from Link Byfield regarding my post earlier today in which I was overly sarcastic in suggesting that he has serially “given up on federal politics,” which was unfair. Byfield wrote: Good blog post on Harper. You say in it I have given up on federal politics. You misapprehend me – I have been moving this past decade towards federalism [...]
Elizabeth May, who has been fighting to be included in the federal leaders debate, has said she will not be part of "The Other Parties Discussion," or what is labelled by some as a fringe party leaders debate that would include the Pirate, Libertarian, CHP, Rhinoceros, and other parties. May has been crying about the assault on democracy that her non-inclusion in the main [...]
The NDP tweets: "Caring for our parents and raising the next generation are probably the most important things we do as families - @jacklayton #elxn41 #ndp" I agree, but does the stridently pro-abortion NDP really believe that raising the next generation is the most important thing families do? If so, why do they favour increased access to abortion which eliminates so many [...]