Conservative Leader Stephen Harper's three proposed amendments to the government's legislation on same-sex "marriage" left social conservatives less than impressed and represents typical Tory thinking on how to reach out to the political centre by alienating its base. Harper wants to amend the legislation so that it, "Recognizes the traditional definition of marriage; i.e., one man and one woman." So far, so [...]
Our centrespread feature has a list of things every pro-lifer can do to help protect the unborn, the disabled and elderly, as well as all those vulnerable to the culture of death. Certainly, there will be a number of activities in this list that you can commit yourself to doing in the next 12 months. Some take little time or money; others [...]
Following the U.S. election on Nov. 2, and the extensive discussion of the role of pro-life, socially conservative and religious voters played in the electoral success of the Republican Party, Conservative party leader Stephen Harper demonstrated an obtuse inability to learn from success. Harper said that the United States and Canada are quite different countries and that trying to build a coalition [...]
Every year at about this time, there are reports of stores succumbing to political correctness and a a dangerous notion of multi-culturalism. They instruct employees to eschew wishing customers a "Merry Christmas" or they substitute the terms "holiday" or "seasonal" in their Christmas-time marketing and on their products. Other vestiges of Christmas are also being banished. This year, a Wal-Mart store north [...]
In a Sept. 27 feature on feminism entitled "25 years of women making progress," Toronto Star "Life writer" Trish Crawford made a common, but egregious, error when she paraphrased former National Action Committee on the Status of Women president Judy Rebick as saying "the legalization of abortion may not have been the most important milestone for women, but it is the one [...]
On Oct. 9, the embryonic stem cell research movement got its martyr with the death of actor Christopher Reeve. A decade ago, the man who played Superman in a series of movies in the 1970s and 1980s fell in a horse-riding accident and became a quadriplegic. In recent years, he became the poster-child for ESCR and one of its leading activists. Not [...]
Joseph Goebbels famously said that if you repeat a lie often enough, people will begin to believe it. When it comes to the media narrative of the 2004 federal election, it has been repeated so often that despite obvious errors of fact and interpretation, it has become a truism that social conservatives cost the Conservative party its chance to form the government. [...]
Mother Teresa famously said that the greatest threat to peace was abortion. In Asia, high rates of abortion, fuelled by China's one-child policy and India's depopulation schemes, are leading to sex ratios so skewed that China and India may become imperialist nations just to quell the domestic problems that such ratios engender. That is the theory postulated by Valerie M. Hudson and [...]
On the day that Paul Martin announced former NDP British Columbia premier Ujjal Dosanjh would be the new federal Health Minister, Dosanjh announced he would not tolerate private healthcare in Canada as he examines ways to improve the health system. "What we need to do is stem the tide of privatization in Canada and expand public delivery of healthcare, so that we [...]
We'd like to remind Interim readers that the last opportunity to make known opposition to the reclassification of the so-called morning-after pill is almost here. In May, the Health Canada agency announced its intentions to allow the drug, formally known as levonorgestrel, to be available over-the-counter at pharmacies without a doctor's prescription. Pro-life advocates have been opposing this reclassification on a number [...]
The passing of President Ronald Reagan, on the eve of our federal election campaign, offers an unflattering comparison of the Canadian political climate. Reagan was a true leader: although he understood the gravity of his office, the weight of duty never dulled his indefatigable smile. This genial statesman, who combined the wisdom of age with the levity of youth, led his nation [...]
On June 28th, Canadian voters went to the polls and delivered a message that was clearly ambiguous. The Liberals have a mandate and a minority, the NDP have leverage despite loss, and the Conservatives have an underwhelming admixture of improved standings that did not match expectations. If there was any clear victory on election night, it was for the defenders of life. [...]
There is something deeply wrong with a country when remedying a lack of democracy becomes a campaign promise. The so-called "democratic deficit" is not new: Canadians have silently endured it for many years. How ironic that Canada, one of the earliest examples of responsible government, should have squandered so much of its heritage of freedom. Imperceptibly, democratic participation has lapsed into apathy. [...]
In recent weeks, there have been numerous nomination meetings across the country and we are both surprised and pleased with the number of pro-life candidates who are winning their respective party's nominations. We are pleased for obvious reasons: the more pro-life candidates there are, the greater the chance of electing more pro-life MPs, and the more pro-life MPs there are in Parliament, [...]
For all the talk about the democracy deficit, there is a much greater deficit in the political arena: a morality deficit. Consider just two facts (for the sake of brevity): o In 2000, then-prime minister Jean Chretien declared that Canada had "social peace" on abortion, indicating that the debate was over. The blood of more than 110,000 unborn babies killed in the [...]