We are pleased to announce the results of the 2010-2011 Father Ted Colleton Scholarship contest. As has been the case in the past, the quality of candidates and their writing abilities have made the decision difficult. We extend our congratulations to all participants (more than 60) and to the three winning candidates. This years essay theme was: Dishonest language leads to dishonest [...]
Rory Leishman's March column is on politicians who duck dealing with moral issues; he's looking specifically at Stephen Harper who stated in a January interview that he would not raise the abortion issue, even if he won a majority. (Indeed, he said of abortion: “I have spent my political career trying to stay out of that issue.”) Of course, as Leishman notes, politicians are all too [...]
Don Hutchinson of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada notes that advance polls will fall on Good Friday, but is thankful that at least there won't be voting on Easter Sunday. Hutchinson asks whether any of the politicians consulted a calendar. The obvious concern is that Christians will be focused on their religious obligations (quite rightly) and thus could be disenfranchised. The Toronto Star [...]
Rick Santorum was merely stating the obvious when he said in a New Hampshire radio interview that over the past 40 years not enough babies were born and therefore there are not enough workers (taxpayers) to support the growing number of retirees collecting Social Security. Abortion and anti-family policies and culture has a direct economic impact on society. This is self-evident and yet it [...]
The Commission for Justice and Peace of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops 2011 Federal Election Guide lists has listed “Respect for life and human dignity: from conception to natural death” as the top issue for Catholics to consider when they cast a ballot. LifeSiteNews.com story here. The United Church of Canada 2011 Federal Election Kit does not mention abortion directly, but does call for [...]
As Xtra!, the homosexualist newspaper reminds us, Bill C-389, which would add transsexual and transgender to the Canadian Human Rights Act and the hate crimes provisions of the Criminal Code, has died on the Senate Order Paper because the election was called. Interim coverage of C-389 can be found here including voting records of MPs present for the vote in December.
The March issue has a chart and short story showing that abortion is the leading cause of death in Canada. Each year there are about 70,000 cardiovascular deaths and 70,000 cancer deaths, but about 100,000 abortion deaths. Not that Stats Can counts abortion as a cause of death.
Election news relevant to pro-life and pro-family Canadians. In the first policy announcement of the election, the Conservatives are proposing income splitting for families with children un der 18 -- but it won't come into effect until Ottawa balances its budget. Of course, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff doesn't like the plan. Liberal MP Raymonde Folco ( Laval-Les Iles), a pro-abortion feminist, has [...]
According to a recent Gallup poll, 57 per cent of Americans – and I suspect Canadians as well – have little or no trust in the mainstream media which publicizes, promotes, defends and almost worships secular humanists, and their ideology. Henry Morgentaler and Stephen Lewis appear to be their secular saints. Who would have suspected that in just one generation Ontario Liberal [...]
It’s awe inspiring how far the pharmaceutical industry has come during my lifetime. When I was growing up, the only pills we had in our medicine cabinet were aspirin tablets. Now, there are pills for practically every ailment and you get an order of side effects at no extra charge. My financial advisor thinks I should invest in pharmaceuticals. I [...]
As I was leaving Fox News last night, I glanced up at the monitor and caught Juan Williams expressing mystification to Sean Hannity as to why Republicans in Congress were wasting the country’s time on a “little thing” like abortion. Gee, I dunno. Maybe it’s something to do with a mass murderer in Pennsylvania, or Planned Parenthood clinics facilitating the sex trafficking [...]
The last few months have been a disgrace for journalism. Especially for Canadian journalism. Especially for liberal Canadian journalism. Unable to tolerate what seems to be losing in the game of democracy and terrified by the possibility of a Conservative majority government, left-leaning pundits decided to blame the participants. Welcome to the hellish world of The Christian Right. I’ve never [...]
In an interview with the CBC broadcast on Jan. 18, Prime Minister Stephen Harper indicated that he would go on opposing any legislative restrictions on abortion, even if the Conservatives were to win a majority of the seats in Parliament in the next federal election. “If you want to diminish the number of abortions,” he said, “you’ve got to change hearts and [...]
On Jan. 29, the National Post ran a full-page feature article on the causes of death in Canada. Most of it was a graphic presentation, using proportionate-sized circles, showing how people died in 1967 and 2007. The National Post article stated, “Death is life’s one and only inevitable event, and it comes in many ways – officially, there are 999 causes.” However, as Interim reader [...]
We will have election coverage of the Canadian election throughout the campaign here at TheInterim.com when it comes to the life and family issues. And an American libertarian David Weigel has already implicitly raised the hidden agenda/scary conservative meme: What are the stakes? I will leave it to Canada experts, but an immediate worry I see for small "L" liberals is that a [...]