It sometimes seems that the culture of life enjoys few victories. The news is almost always bad. Dignity is insulted, virtues fade, and the foibles and follies of a world gone wrong can sometimes discourage even the most stout-hearted defender of life. Society is becoming postmodern, post-moral and, most distressingly, post-Christian. As Peter Kreeft puts it, "we cannot go back to being [...]
But future of bill is in doubt as Senate prorogues On Oct. 28, the House of Commons passed Bill C-13, the federal government's long-delayed and fundamentally flawed reproductive and experimental technologies legislation, by a vote of 149-109. Liberal backbencher Paul Szabo (Mississauga South), who spearheaded efforts to stop the bill and who has studied the issue probably more than any other elected [...]
My cousin, Bertram, hails from Massachusetts and recently joined me in Ottawa for a sightseeing trip through our Parliament buildings, to compare how we run our country with how the Americans run theirs. Bertram is a political junky who lives, breathes and talks politics. But his knowledge of politics ends at the Canadian border. My job was to enlighten him about the [...]
My cousin, Bertram, hails from Massachusetts and recently joined me in Ottawa for a sightseeing trip through our Parliament buildings, to compare how we run our country with how the Americans run theirs. Bertram is a political junky who lives, breathes and talks politics. But his knowledge of politics ends at the Canadian border. My job was to enlighten him about the [...]
The deal announced on Oct. 16, wherein the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative parties would work to merge and present a united right alternative - the Conservative Party of Canada - to the governing Liberals is both a concern and an opportunity. It is a concern, in part, because listed among their 19 core principles is no mention of protection for innocent [...]
Bill C-250 was passed in the House of Commons 145 to 110 on Sept. 17. This so-called "hate crimes" bill is dangerous, debilitating, and disingenuous; it offends the basic principles of liberal democracy. And yet, our fight against this bill is not over, and our stuggle not in vain. It must first be noted that not only is the bill badly premised [...]
Premier Ernie Eves was sitting dwarfed by his big desk at Queen's Park recently, while anxiously awaiting the arrival of his top bureaucrat, known unaffectionately as "Slippery Sam" Slocum. Then, into the room barged Slippery Sam, announcing, "They're here! The election committee has arrived." "Show them in," said Ernie. Into the room bustled a motley crew of yuppily-dressed people who seemed overly [...]
Former Liberal and independent MP John Nunziata, who is running to become Toronto's next mayor, faces four socially liberal opponents. While most analysts say former Toronto mayor Barbara Hall will win handily, political strategists The Interim talked to say that Nunziata is the only candidate who can beat her. Hall is a socialist who has openly endorsed the gay agenda, including same-sex [...]
The rhetoric put forward to rationalize the killing of an innocent person, especially one with whom the killer has a close or even intimate relationship, has always required considerable ingenuity. This is not so much the case at the present moment. In recent years, an individual has come into prominence who is the very personification of death-on-request. Shunning the need for laboured [...]
Bill C-13, An Act Respecting Human Reproduction and Related Technologies, hangs in limbo as the federal government seems unsure of whether it has enough support to get it passed. As a sign of its desperation to enact the reproductive technologies legislation, the government has indicated that the vote will not be a free one. It has also suggested to Liberal MP Paul [...]
Ontario pro-life voters are being urged to look beyond party affiliations and closely examine the positions of the candidates. None of the three major parties - the Progressive Conservatives, Liberals and NDP - have a party platform amiable to life, although there are candidates in each of the parties that personally hold pro-life views. On family issues the parties diverge a little. [...]
Get with the program, Jim Jim Coyle, a popular Toronto Star columnist, a longtime acquaintance, an occasional reader of my column and a defender of mine at Queen's Park, recently wrote a tirade against the Pope's stand on homosexual and lesbian "sexual-union play acting." (H&Ls mistakenly call it a sex union even though it is a physical impossibility. Study the human body, [...]
On the passing of Bob Hope, President George Bush offered this succinct and fitting tribute: "Today America has lost a great citizen … Bob Hope made us laugh. He lifted our spirits." Sir Robert Hope, who held an honorary knighthood in Britain, was honoured four times by the U.S. Congress and by every branch of the military. But it is the latter [...]
Growing public and political opposition to the government's plan to redefine marriage to include same-sex couples may delay such changes until as late as 2005. But there is pressure to pass such legislation much sooner, as Prime Minister Jean Chretien, who has failed to secure a lasting legacy, seems determined to create a massive social change like that of Pierre Trudeau's binding [...]
I had another one of my famous nightmares. I was sound asleep when NDP federal leader Jack Layton appeared on my TV at the end of Toronto's annual "gay pride" parade recently to announc his latest brainstorm - that he will pressure the federal government into renaming Toronto, "Toronto Sodom City." The original Sodom had a tragic history connected to it, Layton [...]