Whatever happened to the valid free exercise of religion? National Affairs Rory Leishman In opposing the establishment of a law school at Trinity Western University (TWU), the Canadian Council of Law Deans have demonstrated once again that they, like our judicial masters in the courts, have renounced both freedom of religion and the rule of law. In a letter to [...]
Light is Right Joe Campbell As a child, I learned that bills and coins make a financial statement. They declare a cash value. As an adult, I learned that they also make a policy statement. They reveal a partisan position. Besides purchasing power, they represent political power. Money doesn’t talk. It cheers. Less than a year after the Bank of [...]
The good news is that Premier Dalton McGuinty is no longer the premier of Ontario. I hold that he effectively quit being the premier of Ontario last Fall when on October 15 he announced that he was stepping down and prorogued the legislature indefinitely. But McGuinty carried on the day to day business of the legislature as if he still held the [...]
Pro-life ‘Choice Chain’ cancelled by UVic VICTORIA – The University of Victoria cancelled a campus pro-life group’s “Choice” Chain the day before it was to take place. In February 2012, Youth Protecting Youth (YPY) was prohibited by the student union, the University of Victoria Student’s Society (UVSS), to book public space and hold the “Choice” Chain, a display by the Canadian Centre [...]
An evangelical group came under scrutiny from the Canadian International Development Agency, after the Canadian Press reported Crossroads Christian Communication Inc. received foreign aid money to help build wells and toilets in Uganda. The article, written by Lina Dib and Fannie Olivie, attempted to link Uganda’s consideration of imposing the death penalty for homosexual acts to the religious organization’s view of homosexuality [...]
Canada Joyce Arthur of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada wrote to the Abbotsford, B.C., city council demanding that a pro-life display of white crosses on private property be removed from a field along the TransCanada Highway: “The city should foster a community culture that respects women’s rights and freedoms by not approving initiatives that directly oppose these values and existing law.” [...]
An iconic figure in Canada’s pro-abortion movement has had his medical license revoked for two months after pleading guilty Jan. 31, to inseminating three women with the wrong sperm. Ottawa fertility specialist Dr. Norman Barwin, president of Canadians for Choice, was found guilty of professional misconduct at a disciplinary hearing of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. “It is hard [...]
“Don’t let yourselves go the way of Ontario’s tyranny,” one pro-family group is warning the citizens of Manitoba in response to a new “anti-bullying” bill introduced in December by the NDP government. Critics say that Bill 18, following upon the heels of McGuinty’s very similar Bill 13, which passed in Ontario last June, is more about pushing the homosexual political agenda on [...]
Campaign Life Coalition Saskatchewan has launched a campaign to promote the pro-life cause to the public. Although people who receive their newsletters and e-mails are informed about the pro-life cause, “the general population does not seem to be aware of the issues regarding beginning and end of life,” wrote Denise Hounjet-Roth, the president of CLC Saskatchewan in an e-mail to The Interim. [...]
In an interview given 10 years ago, the then-Cardinal Ratzinger was asked about the possibility of his retiring from his position at the Vatican: “Yes, I had the desire to retire in 1991, 1996, 2001, because I had the idea I could write some books and return to my studies.” He then added, by way of explanation: “But, on the other hand, [...]
As noted in our editorial on the opposite page, we are marking 30 years of publishing The Interim this month. I have had the privilege of writing and serving on the editorial board of this paper for 15 years, and as editor for almost 12 years. I consider it an incredible honour to be able to use my journalistic talents to [...]
Every year, 358,000 mothers and 4 million babies die or are stillborn because of poor maternal care. Put another way, 800 women die every day from preventable causes related to pregnancy. Approximately three per cent of women living in sub-Saharan Africa die because of complications relating to pregnancy. Save the Mothers is a Canadian charity that is attempting to remedy these preventable [...]
Lena Duham It’s a truism that every generation believes that the ones immediately following it will preside over the dismantling of every social, cultural and economic virtue that they took for granted, a rite of passage for senior generations that begins roughly when they realize that they’ve slipped out of the green vale of youth. There’s no objective way of [...]
Prince Edward Island, long praised as a “life sanctuary” by the pro-life movement for not providing surgical abortions, now has a doctor willing to do chemical abortions. Chemical abortions, sometimes called medical abortions, are brought about by taking abortion-inducing drugs that make the uterine wall inhospitable to newly conceived life; without the ability to grow safely in that location, it is expelled [...]
An Ottawa abortionist was ordered to cease performing abortions in 2011 after an inspection found he failed to meet the “minimum expected standard” for anesthesia and lacked the necessary safety standards and resuscitation equipment. The report on Dr. Wee-Lim Sim was made public Feb. 1, by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario as part of a new initiative to publicize [...]