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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
What is arguably the most influential medical journal in the world has announced that it will publish more studies on embryonic stem cell research in order to build more public support for such science. New England Journal of Medicine editor Dr. Jeffrey M. Drazen was quoted recently in the Boston Globe as saying that, "Nothing is better for a field than true [...]
Two coalitions are doing legal battle against same-sex "marriage" as Ottawa fiddles. An Interfaith Coalition of the Catholic Civil Rights League, Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, Ontario Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Islamic Society of North America announced it is appealing the June 10 Ontario Appeals Court ruling in Halpern v. Canada, which redefined marriage to include same-sex partners. The coalition is [...]
Twenty-five years ago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn delievered his landmark commencement speech at Harvard, "A World Split Apart." In what was one of the 20th century's most famous and poignant commencement addresses, Solzhenitsyn offers a reminder to conservatives of just what it is that they seek to conserve. Later released as a book and commented upon in numerous newspaper columns and magazine articles, it [...]
According to Campaign Life Coalition New Brunswick president Peter Ryan, the June 9 elections in his Atlantic Canadian province offered tremendous hope for pro-lifers across the country. The elections saw Progressive Conservative Premier Bernard Lord's huge majority shrunk from 46 seats to 28, in the 55-seat provincial legislature. Ryan told The Interim that the bare majority should make for a more intriguing [...]
Organizers say at least 200,000 pro-life citizens, including many from Canada, braved the freezing cold weather to take part in the March for Life in Washington D.C., marking the 30th anniversary of the infamous Roe v. Wade decision, on Jan. 22. Despite media guesses of the number of pro-lifers attending the march being anywhere from "a few thousand" to "tens of thousands," [...]
'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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]