Peter Kormos, the veteran Ontario NDP MPP member for Niagara Centre, is once again trying to sell the dangerous idea of Ontario organ donors automatically becoming organ donors unless they opt out. What’s not readily understood is that your body’s got to be alive in order to make most organ donations. Viable organs cannot be taken from a corpse. As aToronto Star [...]
Maybe the Order of Canada is where Henry Morgentaler belongs. Maybe he fits in well with that group - well, some recipients of the Order of Canada. I didn’t hear about any flood of disgusted members filling the post office with their rejected snowflake awards when Morgentaler got his. Look who also joined the order on the day Morgentaler’s award was announced. [...]
Do the media as a rule give pro-life and pro-life stories a pass? Having been at Queen’s Park as a part-time member of the press gallery for over 15 years, I would definitely say yes. The Interim recently celebrated its 25th anniversary and I wouldn’t have a job and The Interim wouldn’t even exist if the media didn’t ignore pro-life stories. The national [...]
Frank, what are you planning to do?” “I’m going to Ottawa on Stéphane Dion’s bus tomorrow morning.” “Dear, this isn’t one of those crazy trips you take in order to sabotage the Liberal party, is it?” “Ileen, how can you say a thing like that? Duty calls. The Interim wants an in-depth interview with Dion. I shall try to determine if Dion [...]
I got out of the taxi in front of former U.S. vice-president Al Gore’s posh home in Nashville, Tenn. and whom should I find there pulling his oversized suitcase along the sidewalk but a well dressed con man I knew back in Canada! “Joe!” I cried. “What are you doing in the U.S.? The last time I saw you were selling body [...]
In Great Britain, they say that when a politician loudly claims to the media his opponent is “not playing fair,” it’s a sure sign he’s losing. The latest news is that Cryin’ Brian Mulroney is complaining through his lawyers that the members of the House of Commons ethics committee conducting a probe into his suspicious business dealings were guilty of “glaring violations [...]
Fank Magazine – no relation – makes a list regularly of words and expressions that are trite and over-used by journalists and I take off my hat to them for doing so. I also promise to never use that trite expression again - unless I have to. The one trite expression they have never noted is: “I made a mistake.” Like when [...]
At Queen’s Park, the McGuinty government smells like something that even the raccoons won’t eat. Basking in the glow of a recent election victory that Dalton McGuinty never won, but that John Tory certainly lost, Dalton is trying to keep one election promise he made. He raced to trim abortion wait times in Ottawa. McGuinty is providing permanent funding for an additional [...]
The Saskatchewan NDP went down to a crushing defeat in the recent provincial election after 18 years in office. Goodbye, NDPers – you won’t be missed. Take your lousy Marxist human rights kangaroo courts with you. We should be celebrating all over Canada. The Wicked Witch of the West has been soundly defeated! No longer should people have to apologize for saying [...]
We had a pro-life guest for dinner from out of town recently. She had been doing pro-life work for ages and was discouraged. She started to list our defeats and setbacks and hers would have filled a phone book if I hadn’t interrupted her. “Wait a minute!” I cried excitedly. “I know a guy who helped organize a LifeChain this year that [...]
I just found out two startling things! What saved Canada in the beginning and who the camel in the tent was. We’ll start with who was the camel in the tent, because it leads directly into what saved Canada. In Aesop’s wonderful old story, a camel freezing out in the cold is able to persuade an Arab to let him into his [...]
August 2007 "I want to see Rampfab!" yelled Alfred Jones-Smith, the program department head of the CBC. "He's turned the CBC into a pro-life organ of Campaign Life Coalition!" As the boss's right-hand man, I knew that Rampfab was in deep trouble when I hurried out of the boss's office and into a big central room where myriads of grey metal desks [...]
Playing sports has always been a luckless, losing game for me. I was playing golf in a foursome with some guys from the office a few years back and gave up keeping score when we finally reached the 18th hole. At the back of the short 18th hole was a parking lot for the golfers, protected by a very tall wire fence. [...]
The Ontario election is locked in – unless the Libs lose all the ballot boxes the night before the polls open, it’s still going to happen, guys. At least the provincial Libs can’t change the date because they don’t think they can win. They’re stuck with it. All parties are poll worshippers and if the party bosses don’t get their weekly fix [...]
Phil Spidell, the co-president of Silverstone Securities Inc., the most profitable securities firm in the U.S., barged raging mad into the office of Art Hoople, the co-president of the firm. “Art, did you see the front-page article in the Wall Street Journal today about us making $68 million each last year? It’s a smear job! Since when has good old American greed not [...]