Yesterday during the leaders debate, Gilles Duceppe brought up the issue of abortion, but Stephen Harper did not take the bait. Rather than reiterating his line about not intending to re-open the issue is he wins a majority -- and therefore risk alienating his social conservative base -- Harper talked about his crime agenda. As part of a weekly series at the [...]
Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe brought up abortion and capital punishment -- somehow in the context of young offenders.
Sadly but unsurprisingly there is nothing much to report from the daily campaign. That's probably because the leaders are focusing on tonight's leaders' debate. What are the odds that moral issues are raised tonight 1) by the moderator or 2) the Liberal or NDP leader as an attack on Stephen Harper's hidden agenda? By our (far from scientific) estimates, the latter is three times more [...]
Here's a paper (pdf) on environmentalism as, if not a religion, a substitute for religion. We've written about this before -- here and here. As I noted last year, "similarities between old-time fundamentalist religion and new-age (even pantheistic) environmentalism is stunning."
The Montreal Gazette reports that Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe reiterates his support for separation of church and state. Asked about the case of Saguenay Mayor Jean Tremblay who has continued opening council meetings with a prayer despite a Quebec Human Rights Tribunal ruling against him, Duceppe said religion is a private matter, although he maintained Tremblay also had a right to pursue [...]
John Carpay has started the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms. The JCCF was founded last year "for the purpose of advancing and promoting the core principles of freedom and equality through education and litigation." Here is the website. Here is our Q&A with Carpay. One of JCCF's board members, Daniel Santoro, is slated to argue the case of R. v. Gibbons before [...]
Earlier this week, the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada released its Election Kit. In it they offer information to churches about what they can and cannot do during an election -- there is a lot they can legally do which fulfills their Christian obligation to inform their flocks about the responsibility of casting an informed and conscientious ballot. In short, churches must not [...]
Are Democrats threatening to close down the federal government because the Republicans won't fund the abortion industry? The New York Times suggests they might be: Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, offered a lengthier, scathing criticism of Mr. Boehner and House Republicans, accusing them of wanting to shut down the federal government by insisting on cutting funds for women’s heath services. [...]
Our Canadian election campaign watch is off today and tomorrow, as well as other bloggy musings, unless something big happens. Meetings, meetings, and more meetings are to blame.
Kathy Shaidle points to Ezra Levant who said: If we were the CBC or CTV, you wouldn’t have to ask for the channel. It would be forced on you. In fact, under Canadian broadcasting law, every cable provider must carry CBC and CTV, and every single cable subscriber (that would be you) is forced to pay for it, whether you watch it [...]
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I got an email from Link Byfield regarding my post earlier today in which I was overly sarcastic in suggesting that he has serially “given up on federal politics,” which was unfair. Byfield wrote: Good blog post on Harper. You say in it I have given up on federal politics. You misapprehend me – I have been moving this past decade towards federalism [...]
Elizabeth May, who has been fighting to be included in the federal leaders debate, has said she will not be part of "The Other Parties Discussion," or what is labelled by some as a fringe party leaders debate that would include the Pirate, Libertarian, CHP, Rhinoceros, and other parties. May has been crying about the assault on democracy that her non-inclusion in the main [...]
The NDP tweets: "Caring for our parents and raising the next generation are probably the most important things we do as families - @jacklayton #elxn41 #ndp" I agree, but does the stridently pro-abortion NDP really believe that raising the next generation is the most important thing families do? If so, why do they favour increased access to abortion which eliminates so many [...]
Abortion got mentioned on the campaign trail with Prime Minister Stephen Harper saying he has "no intention of opening up" issues such as abortion if the Conservatives win a majority. While in the Welland riding in southwest Ontario, Harper said: "Our agenda is the same agenda with a majority government or a minority government." See the full story in the National Post, Globe and Mail, [...]