Via Twitter Michael Taube brought this Gallup poll to my attention. Here is the bottom line: 41% of Americans who now identify themselves as "pro-choice" is down from 47% last July and is one percentage point below the previous record low in Gallup trends, recorded in May 2009. Fifty percent now call themselves "pro-life," one point shy of the record high, also [...]
Campaign Life Coalition has a short video interview with CLC national president Jim Hughes in which he reflects on the National March for Life, especially the presence and influence of the large number of youth at the event.
Kathy Shaidles talks with Brian Lilley on Sun News about the human rights commission industry and the hierarchy of official victims (whites and Christians at the bottom). Well worth the nine minutes it takes to watch. They also talk about Catholic schools being bullied into accepting gay-straight alliances and Shaidle says that "next week it will be some new thing" because to keep the [...]
An excellent column by the Ottawa Citizen's David Warren on the lack of abortion debate and how impossible it is to have a discussion on this matter, mostly due to the hysterical reaction of those on the pro-abortion side. Warren says: There is no avoiding the issue, except through suppression. The pretence that the commission of an abortion is “a moral decision” in which [...]
Lou Iacobelli at Everyday for Life Canada has some thoughts on last week's record-breaking National March for Life. Dunn Media has a short video that captures the March, both on Parliament Hill and in the streets. We'll have extensive coverage of the March in the forthcoming June edition of the paper.
The Toronto Star took notice of the growing number of young people involved in the pro-life cause with a front-page article in today's paper. Good for them. The article is fair and balanced, but there is a factual problem with the second paragraph: Pro-lifers will rally on Parliament Hill by the thousands Thursday for the March for Life, an ever-growing annual rally [...]
On the weekend, National Post columnist Andrew Coyne wrote about the need for an abortion debate in Canada. It is worth reading, especially his point that even feminist justice Bertha Wilson -- the only Supreme Court justice to say there is a right to an abortion -- could countenance restrictions on abortion. The obvious, though only implied question in Coyne's column is that if Bertha [...]
Yesterday, Stephen Woodworth's motion (M-312) had it's first hour of debate in the House of Commons. (Coverage from LifeSiteNews, the National Post, Toronto Sun, Globe and Mail, Maclean's, and CTV, which does a decent enough job providing the main points of view on each side). The pro-abortion side is not making very good arguments, just the same-old, same-old, so dignifying the first hour [...]
Stephen Woodworth's motion (M-312) calling upon Parliament to examine when human life begins and what consequences that finding might have for Canadian law is set for the first hour of debate today. We wrote about M-312 in the April issue of The Interim and editorialized about Woodworth's audacious effort in February. (You can find all our coverage of Stephen Woodworth's motion here.) The opposition has gone [...]
Catholic Missions of Canada is an Interim advertiser. We are a pro-life paper and they are a Catholic charity so while we have slightly have different missions, so to speak, but we are very supportive of one another because in the Grand Scheme of things, we are on the same page. As a Catholic I appreciate the work CMC does bringing the Good News [...]
This editorial appears in the forthcoming edition of the print version of The Interim: The Alberta Tories’ 41-year reign appeared to be coming to an end with the April 24 election (held after we went to press). The upstart and more conservative Wildrose Party was leading in the polls. While Wildrose is not a pro-life party, it did have numerous socially conservative [...]
Here is an interesting video of Ezra Levant talking to Russell Browne and Peter Boushy about the case of pro-life activist Mary Wagner and how the judge, Justice S. Ford Clements, told her "Your God is wrong." Boushy, who is leading the appeal, says the judge was excessive in sentencing Wagner to a punishment that was greater than the prosecutor and defense attorneys agreed [...]
A group of concerned parents and parental rights groups held a press conference at Queen's Park yesterday to discuss the Liberal government's Bill 13 (concerns about the bill were addressed on this blog yesterday). The Toronto Sun and Sun News were the only media to cover the event. The Toronto Sun reported: Kim Galvao, chair of Concerned Catholic Parents of Ontario, said people of [...]
Tomorrow (March 29) there will be a rally at Queen's Park to protest the Ontario Liberal government's Bill 13, the so-called anti-bullying bill that is a Trojan horse to normalize homosexuality and attack parental rights and religious freedom. It lasts from 2pm to 3pm so drop in and support the cause for at least some portion of it. In recent months, The Interim has [...]
We'll have our own take tomorrow on the Ontario Court of Appeal decision which appears to have legalized brothels but not solicitation. (The decision can be found here). Here's news coverage of the decision by justices Doherty, Rosenberg, and Feldman. Our coverage of the case early on in the process can be found here and here. Also, the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada responds. Below is a Christian Legal Fellowship press release [...]