But why should O'Leary be any different. Denyse O'Leary, who is somehow both a "key figure" and "minor luminary" in the intelligent design controversy, counters the factual errors that Marci McDonald's book includes about the journalist. Bottom line, as O'Leary explains it: It is as if the universe is now fact free. Some woman's misplaced anger and fear is important now, and nothing else [...]
World magazine has an interview with Jennifer Roback Morse, who brings an economic point of view to analyze family and marriage. An excerpt: So we have many more single moms. So what? Many questions are involved: While mom's attaching to the baby, who's taking care of mom? In the natural family, there is another person taking care of mom, and that's dad. Why is [...]
The Washington Examiner reports: Over the seven year period studied in the report, Planned Parenthood received $657.1 million in tax dollars; Population Council received $284.3 million, the Guttmacher Institute received $12.7 million, Advocates for Youth received $8.7 million, and the International Planned Parenthood Federation received $3.9 million. All in all, $966.7 million tax dollars went to encouraging a practice a plurality of [...]
From IEEE Spectrum Inside Technology, a report on robots created by Douglas Hines and his company True Companion, which treats the story as a cute and natural marriage of libertine sex and the development of modern technology: For US $7000 to $9000 (based on customization) and a $40 monthly fee for tech support, Roxxxy offers patrons five preprogrammed preferences—gay, bisexual, lesbian, straight, and sadomasochistic—with [...]
Four stories from our June issue on the proposed Ontario sex ed curriculum and other issues surrounding sex ed are now online. The main story is "Ontario’s sex ed scandal" which looks at some the changes, the political fallout and reaction from pro-family groups. Here we report on the actual changes to the curriculum (which is being re-examined but hasn't been shelved, contrary to [...]
Small Dead Animals looks at a recent Peter Singer article in the New York Times which explores the question, ""Is a world with people in it better than one without?" and an interview with late cult leader Jim Jones.
The Canadian Labour Congress has criticized the Canadian government for not including abortion in its maternal health initiative because the labour union buys the "full spectrum of sexual and reproductive health care rights" line pushed by pro-abortion groups from the Guttmacher Institute to the World Health Organization to the Obama administration, who all say abortion and condoms are necessary to achieve the Millennium Development Goals of [...]
Our June editorial is about the aggressive sex education program pushed by the Ontario government and parental control of their children's education. Although the curriculum's implementation has been postponed parents need to remain vigilant. However, the thrust of the editorial is to place the sex ed curriculum within a context, namely the secular and progressive liberalism of Pierre Trudeau. An excerpt: In 1967, Pierre Trudeau famously declared: “There’s no [...]
We usually complain about media ignoring pro-life activities and when they do cover pro-lifers there is often a bias against the pro-life message. So we should give credit where it is due: CTV has done a great job covering a campaign by the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform in Calgary that includes trucks with billboards on them as well as sidewalk demonstrations [...]
She even misrepresents a polite hello. Joseph Ben-Ami explains.
You can watch a six-video Munk Debate between author Jane Cawthorne and Andrea Mrozek, manager of research and communications, Institute of Marriage and Family Canada. In total the debate is less than six minutes and the issue is whether abortion is part of maternal health or not. You can vote on who won. Mrozek talked about foisting abortion upon the developing world and what women really need. [...]
New stories from the June issue about the National March for Life in Ottawa: Our coverage of last month's National March for Life: "12,500 march for life in Ottawa." Click on the photo galleries in that story. There were also marches for life in eight of the ten provinces outside central Canada: "Provincial marches for life attracts thousands." The youth are always a [...]
Ezra Levant at The Mark on the need to reform the Canadian Human Rights Commission: The government should not wait for the question of political censorship to work its way through the courts. It should act now to repeal Section 13 and to make other badly needed reforms to the CHRC, including bringing in a civil liberties oversight committee to monitor abuses by [...]
I'm not sure what our plan is when it comes to how extensively to cover the Elena Kagan confirmation hearings -- we are, after all, a Canadian publication, but with a largish American online readership. For now, read Ed Whelan's pair of posts (here and here) at Bench Memos on Kagan and her position on SSM and her apparent attempt to hide [...]
The Pocono Record reports that a 31-year-old Pennsylvania man, Michael James Lisk, had a long-term sexual relationship with a 13-year-old girl who subsequently became pregnant, aborted her own child with a pencil, and had Lisk help dispose of the remains of the aborted child. The paper reports: Still sick on Sunday, the girl went with her mother to Lehigh Valley Hospital. Staff in the Pediatric Intensive [...]