Canada’s New Keynesian Government
Paul Tuns points out that ‘pragmatist’ moderates end up disappointing both fiscal and social conservatives.
Science and politics
A look at Obama’s backhandedness in pretending to take politics out of science policy.
40 years too many
A call to make four decades of genocide parliamentary business.
World Briefs
Spanish intellectuals petition against abortion MADRID - Approximately 1000 scientists, physicians, academics, and intellectuals have signed the Madrid Manifesto, a statement rejecting further legalization of abortion in Spain. The Socialist Worker's Party has proposed permitting abortion on demand for the first 12 weeks of pregnancy and the manifesto is meant to counter the move. "We subscribe to the present Manifesto in defense [...]
Toronto researchers may have found ethical alternative to ESCR
The very real possibility of an immanent ethical stem cell breakthrough has many researchers in the US and Canada excited.
The audacity of stem cell hype
The Interim editor Paul Tuns takes a look at Obama’s recent anti-life decisions regarding embryonic stem cell research.
Oregon assisted-suicide stats show lethal prescriptions up 30 per cent
Alex Schadenberg analyzes the American state’s ‘Death with Dignity Act’, which reveals a dangerous trend.
Pro-abortion language blocked at UN status of women meeting
Pro-lifers push back at the UN against anti-life feminist NGOs.
Bits & pieces
Canada Campaign Life Coalition launched a petition calling for the decriminalization of abortion. It reads, in part: "Whereas it has been 40 years since May 14, 1969 when Parliament changed the law to permit abortion and since January 28, 1988 Canada has had no law to protect the lives of unborn children. Therefore, your petitioners call upon Parliament to pass legislation for [...]
Why the abortion law was changed
Paul Tuns looks at the decade long campaign to legalize abortion leading up to the Omnibus Bill.
Regional March for Life set for cities across Canada
Gearing up to celebrate life from coast to coast.
We should be chanting, ‘Save our sanity’
Donald DeMarco emphasizes the importance of distinguishing what is real and what is nonsense regarding the politicized issues of the day.
Abortion comparison to the Holocaust holds
Editor's note: The following is in response to a speech delivered by National Post columnist Barbara Kay to the Live for Life club at Western University, and reprinted in the Post Feb. 4. Chesterton wrote somewhere that "truth alone can be exaggerated; nothing else can stand the strain." Certainly the liquidation of millions of unborn children is one of those [...]
Atheistic evangelization
An examination of the fruitless results of a secular mindset.
About making babies
With the separation of fertility from intimacy, human reproduction has become like any other kind of production.