Annual Quebec pilgrimage draws rave reviews
Interim Staff
Frist’s fumble on stem cells
Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee, the Republican majority leader in the United States Senate, is a medical professor, heart-transplant surgeon and sincere Christian, who spends much of his vacation time serving as a medical volunteer in clinics for AIDS patients in Africa. Speaking in the United States Senate on July 29, he made the best conceivable case for a bad cause – [...]
No checking your religion at the door
Rory Leishman How can Paul Martin sleep at night? Judging from his public statements and frequent attendance at Mass, he sincerely considers himself a devout Catholic, yet has no compunction about publicly flouting the most solemn and authoritative moral teachings of his church. In an interview with a Vancouver radio station in June, Martin was asked specifically about his defiance of the [...]
It’s self evident!
Rory Leishman In the morning of June 16, one of the most impressive pro-life demonstrations in the history of London occurred outside the gates of the University of Western Ontario. It was a peaceful and prayerful gathering of pro-lifers witnessing to the sanctity of all human life and deploring the shameful decision of the university to confer an honourary doctorate on Henry [...]
Parliament has been reduced to a mere handmaiden of the courts
In kicking off the debate on the government’s civil marriage act, Prime Minister Paul Martin declared: “I stand before members here today and before the people of our country to say that I believe in and I will fight for the Charter of Rights.” That’s typical of Martin. Instead of advancing any reasonable explanation for his newfound determination to enact same-sex “marriage” [...]
The legal minds of Abella, Charron
Prime Minister Paul Martin could hardly have made two worse appointments to the Supreme Court of Canada than Madam Justice Rosalie Abella and Madam Justice Louise Charron. As judges on the Ontario Court of Appeal, this pair of judicial activists has demonstrated supreme contempt for both democracy and the rule of law. Consider Abella's ruling in R. v. C.M., 1995 OCA - [...]