Interim Staff Court of Queen's Bench Associate Chief Justice Jeffrey Oliphant has told the Manitoba government its refusal to cover the costs of abortions at private facilities is a "gross violation" of women's rights. In a class-action suit filed in 2001, two women who had undergone abortions at Winnipeg's Morgentaler Clinic (now Jane's clinic) claimed that having to pay for the procedure [...]
Interim Staff One observer of the Canadian political scene recently remarked that it "seems like Red Tories are to be compared to mad cows: not many of them, not good for much, but they cause problems, all out of proportion to their numbers." Yet, there seem to be just enough of these liberally minded "conservatives" involved in the new Conservative party to [...]
Among the latest Hollywood film offerings is Kinsey - a sanitized, celebratory biography of sexologist Alfred Kinsey, starring Liam Neeson in the title role. This film is another attempt to whitewash the career of this "research scientist," who in actual fact, was a notorious sexual deviant skewing research data to promote a perverse agenda. While Hollywood celebrates Kinsey's life, Dr Judith Reisman, [...]
The Dec. 26 tsunami that ravaged southern Asia (and the east coast of central Africa) has led to a tidal wave of compassion from both the citizens and governments of the West. Individually and collectively, the pledges of financial assistance reached the hundreds of millions of dollars within days. Just over a week after the disaster, Doctors Without Borders in the United [...]
Federal Justice Minister Irwin Cotler has announced that he will introduce the Liberal government bill to change the definition of marriage to one that would include same-sex couples in early February and that he hopes it will pass before the House rises in June. Cotler had indicated in early December that he wanted the House of Commons to pass the government's proposed [...]
One of the fundamental directives driving instructors give their students early on is, "Check your blind spot." That might also be good advice for pro-family Canadians currently embroiled in the battle to save the institution of marriage as it's always been known. That's because, while their comrades in the homosexual lobby push for legal recognition of what passes for permanent or quasi-permanent [...]
The Bell Globemedia conglomerate took another kick at pro-life, pro-family Canadians recently with the airing of a made-for-TV movie lionizing Canada's most notorious abortionist, Henry Morgentaler. Broadcast by its CTV television component on Jan. 5, Choice purported to recount the "tumultuous life story" of Morgentaler, who was credited with leading the "movement that ultimately changed abortion laws in Canada." The always-megalomaniacal Morgentaler, [...]
The Interim In January, religious leaders began stepping up the pressure against the federal government's assault on marriage, because of its proposal to redefine the institution to include homosexual couples. In a letter to Prime Minister Paul Martin, released Jan. 19, Toronto Catholic Cardinal Aloysius Ambrozic asked that the bill be scuttled and a new one proposed to protect the traditional definition [...]
Consumer's Guide to a Brave New World by Wesley Smith (Encounter Books, $38.95 in bookstores or $35.00 through the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, toll free at: 1-877-439-3348, 219 pgs ) Reviewed by Alex Schadenberg The Interim Consumer's Guide to a Brave New World (Brave New World) is Wesley J. Smith's latest book. Smith, a senior fellow with the Discovery Institute and the legal [...]
On Nov. 25, the subcommittee to the committee on procedure and House affairs deemed New Brunswick Conservative MP Rob Moore's private member's bill on marriage non-votable. Moore's C-268 sought to reaffirm the definition of marriage exclusively as the union of one man and one woman. Without giving reasons or without the release of an official vote, the subcommittee, which meets in camera, [...]
One lovely day last June, Vern, a summer counsellor at Toronto's downtown Aid to Women office, decided "to rollerblade" his way back to the Campaign Life Coalition office, a half hour away. It was a good decision, because as it turned out, he helped two teenagers change their minds about abortion. As he approached an abortuary located on his route to the [...]
Why defend the traditional definition of marriage? It is the foundational institution of society and civilization. Marriage is a public good created by God and sanctioned by church and state. As Maggie Gallagher, an American author and expert on marriage, says, "What every human society calls marriage shares certain basic, recognizable features, including most especially the privileges accorded to the reproductive couple [...]
Canada Liberal MP Pat O'Brien on his government's attempt to redefine marriage: "At the moment, we have a bit of an uphill fight, but we aren't giving up and we are going to wage that fight. And I think the side who wants this to pass might be a little over-confident" ... Harold Ball, the mayor of Deer Lake, Nfld., resigns his [...]
I got a call from the PMO's office recently that the prime minister wanted to have a top secret emergency meeting with me about a disastrous situation that was unfolding and he needed my help and advice. I thought somebody in the office was playing a prank on me, like the time when they had me go to Hamilton to interview a [...]
I am fortunate in receiving a very large amount of correspondence from readers. A common question is, "What are the beliefs that lead you to write as you do?" Okay, here it goes. A street corner on one of those deliciously hot summer evenings. To my left is a restaurant and outside of it, a large pile of garbage bags awaiting the [...]