In our forthcoming April issue we have a feature on religious freedom in Canada and Europe and an editorial on why the secular elite cannot tolerate Christianity. We'll have those stories online in a few weeks. Persecution comes in different forms and restrictions on the ability to live faith publicly very different than martyrdom, so we in the West should be thankful [...]
Jack Fonseca of Campaign Life Catholics draws on J.R.R. Tolkien to look at the anti-Catholic efforts of U.S. President Barack Obama and Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty. This is the key: "this subversion of Catholic rights threatens all people of faith." As Glenn Beck recently said, "we are all Catholics now." The state is greedy and cannot countenance an entity that challenges its authority as [...]
Great story from our March issue of the paper about Isabella Santorum. Rick Santorum's daughter has Trisomy 18 and is called a hero for surviving for so long after birth, but the real story is that her parents fought to keep her alive. Often hospitals and doctors will refuse to provide treatment for these babies when they are born. The Santorums made sure Bella was given [...]
Last Fall I spoke at a couple of Campaign Life Coalition regional conferences about the sources of media bias as it affects the abortion issue. Last month, The Interim reprinted that speech. The most important insight is that not all bias is ideological; sometimes reporters are just bad at doing their job and I identify the main reason for this problem is the fact [...]
Campaign Life Coalition officially launched its website "I am a human being" and issued this press release: Campaign Life Coalition today announces the launch of iamahumanbeing.ca. This new website is an educational tool that presents the scientific basis for why every human life should be protected from the time of conception to natural death. This new effort supports motion M-312, introduced by [...]
Check out the just-launched "I am a Human Being"website. The messaging of the website, of course, is "I am a human being and was a human being from the very beginning." It is relevant to the efforts of MP Stephen Woodworth to get a political discussion going that asks and answers the question "when does human life begin?" and examines the implications of modern [...]
Over at Every Day for Life, Lou Iacobelli has a very good post on Ontario's Bill 13, the so-called Accepting Schools Act. Put simply, Iacobelli says, "beyond the anti-bullying rhetoric, there's a political correctness LGBT agenda which the Bill is promoting." As we noted in our January editorial: Dr. Rondo Thomas of The Evangelical Association pointed out at the press conference that another [...]
Harley Price, an occasional Interim contributor, has an outstanding piece on his blog about free love. He notes that there is nothing "free" about modern libertinism: Free love has been free only in that its proponents and practitioners have gotten away with it, imposing upon everyone else the burden of paying its enormous social costs. But that’s how social democracy works. The [...]
I don't know how those women who have abortions can share their stories and re-live their terrible experience. I admire their courage and candour. In the February issue of The Interim we published the testimony of Dale Barr of Cornwall, Ont., who has shared her abortion experience in numerous speeches including at the National March for Life in Ottawa. An excerpt: There [...]
Banning contraception is probably certainly a losing political argument. The Pill and condoms are never going to be recriminalized. That does not mean that pro-lifers and other social conservatives should avoid making a case against contraception in general -- their deletorious health effects, their seperating of sex and reproduction, the abortifacient nature of chemical 'contraceptives' and many more arguments -- or against government promotion of contraception. [...]
The Globe and Mail reports that Justin Trudeau, Liberal MP and son of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau (the father of abortion in Canada) and possible future leader for the beleagured party, told Radio Canada in Quebec that he could support la belle province separating from the rest of Canada. That is big news and it should be. What is bigger news but [...]
Canadian-born libertarian economist David Henderson explains the essential problem with the Obama administration's position on mandating contraception insurance coverage: Insurance is for consumption smoothing: that is, we buy it for high-cost, low-probability events so that a low-probability hit one year will not drastically cut our real consumption that year. The outlay for contraceptives is relatively small and relatively high-probabiity for their users. [...]
Later this week, Toronto Archbishiop Thomas Collins will be one of the 22 bishops promoted to Cardinal. The Toronto Star and its various publications had a large feature about Archbishop Collins on the weekend (brought to our attention by the archdiocese's communicators director Neil MacCarthy on Twitter). The article, written by Sandro Contenta, notes: He’s been especially vocal on abortion, denouncing then-Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff for insisting [...]
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper had a "successful" trip Red China where he inked a number of trade and investment deals. As the papers reported, while Harper may have brought up human rights and democracy with Chinese leaders behind closed doors, he did not make any public statement on Beijing's human rights abuses. More than two years ago, during a previous trip, [...]
The New York Times praised Canada's constitution, the misnamed and redundant Charter of Rights and Freedoms earlier this week and Mark Steyn has responded, noting that the Charter is junk: If that’s insufficiently legalistic, I’ve also described it as “a worthless piece of junk.” By design, it excludes property rights, which Locke, Montesquieu, and other irrelevant dead guys all saw as an indispensable condition [...]