National Affairs Rory Leishman Given the dramatic drop in birth rates throughout most of the world over the past 50 years, it is amazing that so many doom-and-gloom academics still cling to the false and pernicious notion of global overpopulation. Prominent among these persistent doomsayers is Stephen Emmott, professor of computational science at Oxford University. In his recently published and [...]
Light is Right Joe Campbell He told me that when Rome fell in June 1944, his father cried Veni, vidi, vici in a crowd of revelers. “Your father had a speech impediment?” I asked. “Veni, vidi, vici is Latin for I came, I saw, I conquered,” he replied. “My father helped liberate Rome in World War II.” He noted that after winning the [...]
The Dadly Virtues: Adventures from the Worst Job You’ll Ever Love edited by Jonathan V. Last (Templeton, $31.50, 180 page) Last year, Jonathan V. Last edited a wonderful volume, The Seven Deadly Virtues: 18 Conservative Writers on the Virtuous Life. In his most recent collection, 17 conservative writers, reflect on what it means to be a father and advise on how to [...]
We live, scientists tell us, in a four-dimensional space-time continuum. In a way that is difficult to grasp, space and time are profoundly inter-related. But the imagination lives in a fifth dimension -- Dimension H -- the realm of the hypothetical. What is and what could be lie in tantalizingly close proximity to each other, separated only by our free choices. Free [...]
A weed, by definition, is just a plant in the wrong place. Dandelions on a green lawn and oak trees in an apple orchard are only weeds because the gardener’s wishes make them so. Last month, Canada legalized RU-486, the abortifacient drug sometimes known as “the human pesticide.” This lethal, murderous drug has no place in a civilized society; it is a [...]
It’s generally accepted that the romantic comedy went into decline at some point in the ‘90s and hasn’t quite been itself since its final heyday, with films like When Harry Met Sally and Working Girl. If the genre has any life left in it, its saviour has come in the shape of writer/director Judd Apatow, whose innovation was to scour away most [...]
Amnesty International will develop a policy to promote the decriminalization of prostitution. On August 11, at Amnesty International’s International Council Meeting in Dublin, delegates passed a resolution “to adopt a policy that seeks attainment of the highest possible protection of the human rights of sex workers, through measures that include the decriminalisation of sex work.” The resolution urges states to change laws [...]
Health Canada has approved the use of abortion pill RU-486 for up to 49 days gestation with a doctor’s prescription. The agency states that the sponsor of the drug application, Linepharma International Ltd., provided sufficient study data, “risk management measures,” and product labelling. “This is going to substantially change abortion access in this country for the better,” Sandeep Prasad, executive director of [...]
Alissa Golob On March 13 Jonathon Van Maren, of the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform, and Alissa Golob, of Campaign Life Coalition, went on a cross-country speaking tour to promote their No2Trudeau campaign. The tour was designed to activate local pro-lifers to get involved in the distribution of one million postcards in 20 ridings across Canada which targeted Justin Trudeau [...]
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It is easy to forget amidst the extensive coverage of the federal party leaders, that on Election Day we do not in fact vote for prime minister. We mark our ballots for members of Parliament. As the jaded observations has it, MPs have become Ottawa’s representatives to their constituents rather than their constituents’ representatives in Ottawa. Increasingly, MPs participate in their own [...]
Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion provider in the United States. To date, five videos have been published showing activists posing as buyers from a fetal tissue procurement company speaking with directors from variousPlanned Parenthood facilities to uncover the truth behind the illegal profiting of the distribution of human fetal tissue. Under U.S. federal transplantation of fetal tissue law it states “It [...]
Since July 14, 2015 seven videos have come to light that reveal certain Planned Parenthood executives negotiating and discussing the sale of fetal organs harvested from aborted babies. The first video released showed Deborah Nucatola discussing the procurement and distribution of the fetal organs, and it was the first of 12 videos that the Center for Medical Progress says they will release [...]
Rod Taylor When the election writ was dropped, Christian Heritage Party leader Rod Taylor was running in the by-election in Ottawa West-Nepean. Taylor told The Interim in May that he chose not to run in Skeena-Bulkley Valley, where he ran three times before, so he could increase the CHP’s media exposure by running in a riding near the nation’s capital. [...]
Life issues ignored in 2015 campaign but election will still have impactOn August 2, Stephen Harper asked the Governor General to call the 42nd election campaign for Oct. 19, an 11-week campaign that is the country’s longest since the time John A. Macdonald ran for prime minister. After the Conservatives have been nearly a decade in government, the opposition leaders are making [...]