Next week is the international pro-life conference in Ottawa (October 28-30). Two of the feature speakers, Dr. Jack Willke and John Smeaton, have more than three-quarters of a century experience between the pair of them. We write about them in the October Interim. On October 30, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is having a fundraising dinner to honour Ezra Levant and [...]
Article from the October edition is now online: "What is the government’s position on funding foreign abortion?" Here's the bottom line from that article: The government has failed to clearly articulate what it is up to: is there abortion funding through CIDA or third parties that is not included in its maternal health initiative? While the government has resisted pressure to include [...]
Writing about the pro-life students are Carleton University who were arrested for taking part in the Genocide Awareness Project, Michael Coren says in the forthcoming (November) Interim which goes to press later this week: If anybody walking past the display didn’t agree with it they only had to do what social conservatives have been told to do for decades every time they complain about [...]
Lawyer John Carpay in the Calgary Herald on the free speech battle of pro-lifers at the University of Calgary on an important and overlooked aspect of this issue: the status of the university as a public institution: The U of C tells Alberta taxpayers that it is "a place of education and scholarly inquiry" with a mission "to seek truth and disseminate [...]
A great story about Father Simon Lobo, brother of Ruth Lobo who was among five students arrested two weeks ago for peaceful pro-life witnessing at Carleton University in Ottawa. Says Fr. Lobo: "I can’t be a moderate pro-lifer any longer. It’s become something that’s drawing the line in the sand for a lot of people." Being moderate means tolerating the assault on the liberty of [...]
Barbara Boxer plays the abortion card in the California Senate race.
I am entirely unimpressed by the choices that NARAL Pro-Choice America is giving people for their 2010 pro-choice slogan contest for stickers to be distributed at the Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert rallies on October 30. These are the five finalists: Vote Pro-Choice. Politicians Make Crappy Doctors. Restore Sanity: Vote Pro-Choice! Just Another Sane, Pro-Choice Voter. Sanity is Voting Pro-Choice! Pro-Choice is the Sane Choice [...]
The Halifax Herald reports that the Nova Scotia government of NDP Premier Darrell Dexter has said the province will not get into the business of online gambling. However, the argument he makes against expanding government-run gambling is really an argument against government making gambling available anywhere: gambling can be harmful and therefore the province should not be in the business of making gambling easier. But the [...]
The Building a Global Culture of Life international conference in Ottawa begins in two weeks. LifeSiteNews.com has a story about it here. Speakers include Dr. Jack Willke, Michael O'Brien and Lia Mills, who made a splash on YouTube as a pre-teen. Register for the conference here.
Dianne Wood reminds us why municipal elections -- mayor, city council and (although she doesn't mention them) school boards -- are worth paying attention to and demanding that elected representatives even at that level (perhaps especially at that level) need to have a good moral compass. On a purely pragmatic level, municipal politics is often the minor league training ground for provincial and federal [...]
The latest news on the decriminalization of prostitution in Canada: sex trade workers in British Columbia are, like their counterparts in Ontario, challenging the restrictions on their trade. In Ontario, the decision has been stayed for four months while the appeal is heard. For a good review of the legal issues in Bredford v. Canada,see Umair Abdul's October 12 post at TheCourt.ca; although [...]
We've been asked to pass this along: LifeCanada – a national organization representing local and provincial educational pro-life groups in Canada – is seeking to fill the position of Executive Director for its office located in Ottawa. The ideal candidate will have a sound knowledge of all life issues including abortion and euthanasia; excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills; strong leadership [...]
Interim friend and contributor Harley Price has posted part two of his series, "The Atheist Delusion: How the Religion of Progressive Thinking Poisons Everything." We noted the publication of part one last week. Price packs more into a paragraph than either Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens can in an entire chapter: In a chapter of twenty-plus pages, Dawkins flogs himself through the Old [...]
Kathy Shaidle's review of Judith Reisman's Sexual Sabotage: How one mad scientist unleashed a plague of corruption and contagion on America that appeared in the September issue is now online. Shaidle begins: Judith Reisman has devoted her life to exploring one of the most depressing and disturbing stories of the 20th century: the “scientific research” about human sexuality conducted by Alfred Kinsey that [...]
Jill Stanek points out that the National Organization of Women has endorsed a pair of male candidates who have described female political opponents/women with whom they have disagreed as whores. Of course, both candidates, California gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown and Florida 8th District House candidate Alan Grayson, are pro-abortion Democrats. One could make a case for NOW ignoring the misogynistic comments, but they've [...]