Abortion got mentioned on the campaign trail with Prime Minister Stephen Harper saying he has "no intention of opening up" issues such as abortion if the Conservatives win a majority. While in the Welland riding in southwest Ontario, Harper said: "Our agenda is the same agenda with a majority government or a minority government." See the full story in the National Post, Globe and Mail, [...]
Earlier today we blogged about Day 10 of the Canadian election campaign and noted that abortion had yet to be mentioned on the campaign trail. Of course, no sooner had we posted that and the Prime Minister was asked about abortion and other social issues. He denied any interest in re-opening the abortion issue if the Conservatives win a majority. Disappointing but [...]
Ten days into the campaign and the Liberals/NDP/Bloc have yet to drop the "hidden agenda" bomb. There is plenty of time for the Coalition Left to use social issues in an attempt to make the Conservatives look scary, but it is far from clear it works (see 2004, 2006, 2008). My own theory is that Liberal fear-mongering on abortion/same-sex marriage drove many [...]
In a column on the similarities of the Conservatives and Liberals in terms economics and relation between government and the governed (excessively centrist with elections fought "between the 45-yard lines") Conrad Black notes that the only major difference between the left and right is abortion: The right-left distinction is down to Liberal demands for more daycare and the conditionalizing of foreign aid on aggressive abortion programs, [...]
As we report on page three, a trio of principled pro-life Conservative MPs, all from British Columbia, recently announced their retirement from federal politics. They were each, to a man, the kind of politician our first editorial calls for: ones “who have the courage of their personal convictions, and who reject the fool’s counsel of compromise.” While we do not begrudge a [...]
This Michael Swan article in the Catholic Register implicitly sets up the false dichotomy of moral values vs. social justice. Note that Swan implies pro-lifers are single issue voters. Campaign Life Coalition is ready for the election. As Jim Hughes says, "There is nothing more important than saving life." As Joseph Sobran pointed out years ago, abortion is the ultimate issue, so single-issue [...]
Amnesty International released a report today condemning Canada for failing to live up to its reputation (in AI's eyes) as a worldwide leader in human rights promotion. (Full report is available as a PDF here.) Among the complaints in the report is that Ottawa has cut funding for feminist NGOs and that the Harper government's G8 maternal health initiative (the so-called Muskoka Initiative) did [...]
Seems like day 155. Yesterday all the discussion was about Green Party leader Elizabeth May being excluded from the leader's debate. This, May and her supporters say, is undemocratic because all views should be represented. May told reporters she will ask the uncomfortable questions no one else asks. But if the criteria is that all views be represented and leaders who ask difficult [...]
Rep. Mike Pence has an excellent piece at NRO about the need to defund Planned Parenthood. Bottom line: PP does not help women. PP and their media sycophants like to say that defunding Planned Parenthood will jeopardize women's health because it will put at risk the organization's ability to provide, for example, mammograms. Live Action exposed that lie and conclusded that "Planned Parenthood is not [...]
Interim Staff On Feb. 7, doctors in France announced that the country’s first “saviour sibling” was born. Popularly termed a “bébé-médicament” (medicine baby), a saviour sibling is conceived through in-vitro fertilization and screened to ensure its cells could be used to treat a brother or sister with a genetic disorder. Umut-Talha (“our hope” in Turkish) was born on Jan. 26 in good [...]
Bill C-389, the so-called bathroom bill that would add “gender identity” and gender expression” to Canada’s human rights and hate crimes laws, looks to be stalled in the Senate. As of press time, there was no sponsor to permit the process to consider the bill to move forward. The homosexualist newspaper Xtra! Reports that the bill’s House sponsor, Bill Siskay [...]
Canada In an interview with Radio-Canada, child murderer Robert Latimer said he would kill his disabled daughter Tracy Latimer if faced with the decision to do it over again. “People think it is a hard decision, but it’s not,” he told Anne-Marie Dussault. Latimer was granted full parole in December after serving a ten-year sentence ... Writing in the the Journal of [...]
A series of undercover videos from the pro-life organization Live Action have uncovered Planned Parenthood (PP) workers abetting sex trafficking. On Feb. 1, Live Action released a video showing a Planned Parenthood manager at a facility in New Jersey giving a man and woman, two actors posing as a pimp and prostitute, advice on how to manage the operation while [...]
When I heard the news of Myrtle’s accident, I was not prepared to have such a unique fixture in my life taken. And so, when I caught wind that Myrtle had been struck by a car and was in critical condition in the hospital, her absence along my daily route was painfully pronounced. Myrtle was one of the first people [...]
For over two months, the British Columbia Supreme Court has heard testimony in its case examining whether Canada’s ban on polygamy is constitutional. The issue was referred to the court after a judge in 2009 stayed charges against two Bountiful religious leaders from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) – James Oler and Winston Blackmore - accused [...]