Karen Shoffstall is dead. She was young, she was pretty, she had so much to live for. But she is dead. At the age of 30 the New York resident and Guelph, Ontario native was diagnosed as suffering from multiple sclerosis. The illness is a terrible one, but there are numerous people who live with it for many years, enjoying a fine [...]
In an article on the front page of the Toronto Star of August 30, 2000, under the title, "Fiery Chretien hammers Day," the Prime Minister is quoted as accusing Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day of "trying to rob Canadian women of their right to choose an abortion." He continues, "We Liberals support a woman's right to choose, but he wants a divisive [...]
Past columns of mine have dwelt on the top-secret meeting that then-British Columbia Attorney-General Ujjal Dosanjh held with representatives of B.C.'s abortion industry, including Joyce Arthur of the Pro-Choice Action Network. I'm told that various folks are working themselves into a tizzy regarding my exposure of this meeting. Indeed, I received an ever-so-rare e-mail message from Arthur herself, "warning" me to "cease [...]
I blundered into a room in the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa recently looking for a washroom. I saw numerous cameras and lighting equipment and panic-stricken people running around. "What's going on?" I asked. "We're shooting a promo of the PM for the upcoming election," said a man standing at the back of the crowd. "We're going to have a federal election?!" "Shhh. [...]
Did you see that amazing story several weeks ago about how new Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day refused to join other MPs in standing to applaud as strident homosexual Member of Parliament Svend Robinson was introduced in the House of Commons? He said it had something to do with the New Democrat MP spending his entire parliamentary career advocating values inimical to [...]
It isn't often that a columnist likes to talk about his own turf. Indeed, there is ample material and information on the battle to protect life in other towns, and I often would rather talk about them. Our fair city of Kelowna has managed to keep the evils of abortion out of the local hospital for some time. Back in the days [...]
Secular humanists maintain that separation of Church and State is a fundamental precept of democracy; that Christian principles applied in politics and law "discriminate" against other religions and citizens with no religion; and that the teachings of the Bible are irrelevant to our enlightened modern era. Too many nominal Christians are inclined to agree with them these days. The unfounded but pervasive [...]
A wild rumour was circulating around Ottawa that Prime Minister Jean Chretien was planning to join Ted Turner's Religion. It was going to be done publicly after the recently held Millennium Peace Summit on religion and world peace at the United Nations. As The Interim'sofficial rumour investigator, I was asked by our editor in chief, David Curtin, to investigate it. I phoned the [...]
I host a nightly television show on Crossroads Television (CTS) entitled Michael Coren Live. My research team books up to 20 guests a week, who are then watched by hundreds of thousands of people. Indeed, we are averaging at 112,000 people a night in Greater Toronto alone! Sometimes there are cancellations, usually because of emergencies or illness. But only once has someone called [...]
If I wasn't suspicious by nature, I'd say that elections were decided by Joe Public getting out and voting. Everybody's vote is equal - right? Wrong. It's who's got the extra clout. In five years, according to Robert MacDermid, a political science professor at York University in Toronto, who tracks such things, the Ontario Tories have received a staggering $50 million from [...]
In the wake of recent domestic violence murders the call to introduce stricter gun control in Canada has been even louder and more strident than usual. I understand the anxiety but I cannot share the logic. Let me say immediately that I hate guns. They terrify me. I have never owned one and I have never really understood why so many Christians [...]
The B.C. worker's paradise was treated recently to a visit by Monica J. Casper, associate professor of sociology at the University of California, in Santa Cruz. Casper is known for her book, The Making of the Unborn Patient, and also has been publicly criticized for being less than honest about her pro-abortion views when conducting her research She presented an overview of [...]
I am pleased to inform readers that Ontario members of the provincial legislature will definitely not go on strike in order to get the 33 per cent increase in pay they are seeking. (The Toronto Star suggests 2 per cent because they only worked 39 days last year.) I suggest that 2 per cent is too high. I recall Ontario Premier Mike [...]
We Canadians who stand in defense of the Judeo-Christian moral and social principles that have built and sustained western culture over 2000 years had better be girding up for the fight of our lives. Confronted by the prospect of a man who unapologetically affirms traditional Christian ideas becoming leader of the opposition, and perhaps even Prime Minister, the forces of secular paganism [...]
In the last few months in separate incidents several people have been shot and two have died along Toronto's Isabella Street, in the downtown core of Canada's largest city. On September 27, 1995 I wrote a column for another paper describing life on that exact street, where I was forced to live with my family for the month before we moved into [...]