A new opinion poll claims the vast majority of Canadians now support abortion rights. (Editor's note: see 'Poll on abortion criticized,' page 1, for story.) No surprise really, in that billions of dollars have been spent in promoting abortion in all aspects of our culture. But just a few points. Pro-choice advocates sometimes argue that men have no right to comment on [...]
'You shouldn't always believe what you read in newspapers' It is axiomatic that you shouldn't always believe what you read in the newspaper. And so it is with a recent National Post story, headlined by this screamer: "78% favour abortions rights." The poll of just 608 people, conducted by Compass and commissioned by Global and the Post, was part of a larger [...]
I got a call from the PMO's office recently that the prime minister wanted to have a top secret emergency meeting with me about a disastrous situation that was unfolding and he needed my help and advice. I thought somebody in the office was playing a prank on me, like the time when they had me go to Hamilton to interview a [...]
I am fortunate in receiving a very large amount of correspondence from readers. A common question is, "What are the beliefs that lead you to write as you do?" Okay, here it goes. A street corner on one of those deliciously hot summer evenings. To my left is a restaurant and outside of it, a large pile of garbage bags awaiting the [...]
Many of you are probably wondering whatever became of the Leger poll on abortion funding in Canada - that is, why it received so little public attention in the media. It's hardly a surprise, given that Big Abortion has representatives in what seems like every newsroom in the nation. But there is part of a national strategy that everyone should be aware [...]
Last October, Statistics Canada published a study about the societies of Canada and Quebec. We find in that study troubling figures about the distinctiveness of Quebec, the highest rate of children born out of wedlock, the highest rate of cohabitations, the highest rate of divorce. Is moral decadence the new distinctiveness of Quebec society? The rate of cohabitations is particularly bad: 29.5 [...]
Full, frontal attacks on freedoms of speech and religion in Canada continue unabated. On Nov. 8, Kevin Bourassa and Joe Varnell, a Toronto homosexual couple who sued the Ontario government seeking legal approval of same-sex marriage, spoke to an audience of Dalhousie University law students in Halifax about their legal battle. They also exploited this platform as an opportunity to attack popular [...]
My Darling Baby: It is with much excitement that we await your arrival. As a family, we count down the weeks until you arrive. We talk about you both at home and at school. How long you are, how you are continuing to develop and how life will change with your arrival. However, in this pregnancy I find myself not taking as [...]
Did Ontario Premier Ernie Eves make a terrible goof when he canned Tourism Minister Cam Jackson recently for billing taxpayers $103,000 over 28 months, when high-living "Toronto boulevardier" Ernie's spending habits make Cam look like a tightwad? In February, I reported in great detail Ernie's love of milking the taxpayer - including his platinum MPP pension trough of $810,000 received in 1997. [...]
In our culture, turning 30 is an important milestone. But unlike those who dread the idea of beginning one's third decade, I've wanted to turn 30 since my late teens. I had rebelled against the infantile beliefs of youth that led to sayings such as "Don't trust anyone over 30." Youth has long excused frivolity, but I escaped such a condition when [...]
How I wish I could shake the hand of every person who wrote to me after the death of my father. The empathy and concern shown by readers of this newspaper was overwhelming. Thank you. From the bottom of my heart. But there is more. Within the outpouring of support and grief was a light that broke through the clawing darkness. It [...]
When is a gynecologist not a doctor? Answer: when he's an abortionist. A headline in the North York Mirror, Sunday, Aug. 18 stated: "North York doctor convicted of income-tax evasion" (see also the September Interim.) They malign every gynecologist and doctor in North York when they fail to mention that Joseph S. Lee is an abortionist. Lee, after being fined $64,200 for [...]
It is partly because of laziness, and partly because there is so much on which to comment, that I offer less a column than a number of notes, observations and questions: Reacting to an Alberta priest's decision not to allow a Planned Parenthood employee to get married in his church, Planned Parenthood Alberta executive director Melanie Anderson told the Medicine Hat News [...]
Tennessee Williams's Desire teaches us about corporate creed and the culture of death After You Touched Me!, which did nothing to enhance his reputation as a dramatist, Tennessee Williams relocated to New Orleans in the hope that the Big Easy would provide the inspiration he had been lacking. There can be no doubt that his new venue inspired the title of the [...]
I am not a Roman Catholic. There is also, frankly, much in the Catholic Church with which I disagree. But I joined with the Catholic world in welcoming Pope John Paul II to Canada recently. Not only because he is one of the greatest leaders of our time, but also because he is a pure and cleansing wind in an often stale [...]