They say that some of the best confidence men in the world are not in jail but can be found in the editorial offices of the biggest newspapers in Canada. And if they can't be found there, they can be found in the backrooms of political think-tanks when an election is brewing. These con-men are so adept at wrestling truth to the [...]
Choosing a Government (CAG) was produced by the Social Affairs Commission of the Ontario Conference of Catholic Bishops. It came out in June 1998 and has been widely distributed and is now being studied in various parishes. This 12-page booklet addresses politically-correct concerns that are almost all endorsed by major and some minor political parties. The booklet forgets that there are concerns [...]
I finally have figured out who I'm going to vote for in the forthcoming Ontario provincial election. Right now, it's downright dangerous for taxpayers walking by Queen's Park because they're liable to be knocked down by the bags of money being thrown out the doors to pay for pre-election propaganda masquerading as informational ads. If I can't find a Family Coalition Party [...]
I read a news item recently that amazed me. Former Saskatchewan cabinet minister and convicted wife killer, Colin Thatcher, had to return his horse which he had been riding on the maximum security prison grounds when some envious person blew the whistle on him. I always thought that our judicial and prison system were heading towards the dumpster but I didn't think [...]
I bet faithful readers want to know what the dirty five-letter word is. My wife Ileen was doing a crossword puzzle recently and she asked me for a five-letter word meaning "biased." Instantly, I replied, "CBC TV. See if that fits." John Grierson, the Englishman who invented the "documentary" back in the 1940s, is famous for making Adolf Hitler "dance." Hitler was [...]
Under Dalton McGuinty, the Ontario Liberal Party has moved firmly to the left on almost every social issue, to the point that it is now almost indistinguishable from the provincial NDP on life and family issues. The most noticeable swing to the left took place in last fall's announcement in Kingston that McGuinty would change provincial law so that same-sex couples would [...]
Garth Drabinsky was on the phone! Why on earth was he calling me?, I wondered. I said to him, "I don't think we've met, Mr. Drabinsky, but I was down to your office a few months ago to try to get a donation for Campaign Life. Your secretary had a big picture of Henry Morgentaler over her desk, and she told me [...]
Queen's Park "Rumour has it that inside every Clinton ‘Bible' is a bound copy of Playboy." "Bill Clinton makes a pretzel look straight." Clinton jokes are as numerous as Clinton lies, but the real story about the U.S. president has yet to be told. If Democrats in Congress think the president's actions in the Lewinsky matter don't "rise to the level of [...]
Shortly after 4 a.m. on Oct. 17, 1998, James Patrick McFadden, the founder and the editor of the pro-life publication Human Life Review, fell to the floor of his New York home and died, due to an oesophageal hemorrhage. McFadden's resume is impressive. From 1971 to 1983, he was associate publisher of the prestigious conservative magazine National Review, where he began with a probationary [...]
Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide: Killing or Caring? By Michael Manning, M.D. (New York: Paulist Press, 120 pages, $14.50, ISBN: 0-8091-3804-2) For a concise and understandable summary of euthanasia, you could hardly do better than Michael Manning's Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide: Killing or Caring? This short but thorough book begins by clearly stating what the euthanasia debate is: "Is it morally, and so ought [...]
Cindi LoForti leaves 'amazing' pro-life legacy to tend to family needs Campaign Life Coalition national president Jim Hughes told The Interim that a little more than 10 years ago, "we were praying to God for someone to come and help us in the Niagara peninsula. At the same time, Cindi LoForti was praying to God for something to do as a gift to [...]
A few years ago, there was a popular black-market video tape called Faces of Death, showing what producers claimed was a series of actual deaths captured on tape. Some were hit by trains, some sank in quicksand, some were eaten alive by crocodiles. On Sunday, Nov. 22, the "snuff film" genre went mainstream, when 24 million Americans watched a 60 Minutes broadcast of a [...]
Pro-lifers report mixed results in U.S. mid-term election Despite some setbacks for individual pro-life politicians, there were a number of victories in state-level ballot initiatives in the U.S. mid-term elections Nov. 3. The most notable was the stunning victory against doctor-assisted suicide in Michigan, where two out of three of voters rejected Proposal B, which would have allowed doctors "to prescribe medication [...]
On Nov. 19, Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Jill Hamilton upheld an earlier decision dismissing murder charges in a suspected euthanasia case. In February, Nova Scotia Provincial Court Judge Hughes Randall granted a discharge to Dr. Nancy Morrison, who is alleged to have killed patient Paul Mills last year at the Queen Elizabeth Health Sciences Centre in Halifax. Judge Randall ruled that [...]
Arrest of grandmothers galvanizes pro-lifers On Oct. 24 and Nov. 21, Ontario pro-lifers picketed the constituency offices of about 90 MPPs across the province, protesting the government's "bubble-zone" injunction prohibiting free speech and free assembly outside abortion centres. Campaign Life Coalition Ontario president Mary Ellen Douglas told The Interim the purpose of the protest was to pressure the current Progressive Conservative government to [...]