Last May, Bill Siksay, the NDP MP for Burnaby-Douglas, introduced Bill C-389, a private member’s bill that would amend the Canadian Human Rights Act to include vague concepts such as “gender identity” and “gender expression” in the list of prohibited grounds for discrimination so that supposed offenses against “gender variant individuals” could be punished under Canadian Law. The bill, in other words, [...]
Life Canada, an organization seeking to educate Canadians about the value of life, launched a national awareness campaign in November, to coincide with the Canada’s official National Adoption Awareness Month. Life Canada’s “Adoption in Canada” campaign aims to assure 18 to 29-year-old women facing unplanned pregnancies that adoption is a “heroic” choice. According to the campaign’s website, adoptionincanada.ca, “many will [...]
An inexpensive genetic test has been developed that can detect 448 genetic childhood diseases. The makers of the test are hoping to expand this to 580 conditions within the next six months and the Beyond Batten Disease Foundation, which funded the National Center for Genome Resources research hopes that the new universal screening process will be available commercially within a [...]
On Dec. 16, Patricia Marie Gerretsen (nee Doherty) passed away at the age of 69, leaving a legacy of pro-life involvement that went back decades and only increased after she suffered a debilitating anuerysm and stroke. Known as Pat to her pro-life friends but Patricia to her family, Gerretsen and her late husband Peter were involved in the pro-life cause [...]
A social conservative assessment Stephen Harper, the Liberals like to tell us, has a hidden agenda. Deep down in his black heart of hearts he wants to ban abortion. Yet, for nearly two decades, Campaign Life Coalition has rated him as “pro-abortion” or “not pro-life,” based on his public statements, CLC questionnaires he returned, and voting record. I’d like to [...]
On Jan. 18, the Halton Catholic District School Board caved to pressure from gay activists and rescinded its Equity and Inclusive Education Policy II-45, following a media storm over the board’s policy banning gay-straight alliances. Over the past year, public and separate school boards in Ontario have been required to implement policies in line with the province’s Ministry of Education equity and [...]
Philadelphia abortionist faces 39 charges in connection with death of woman, seven newborns A Philadelphia abortionist has been arrested in connection to the murders of a pregnant woman and seven newborn babies in a case that has garnered international attention. On Jan. 19, Kermit Gosnell, 69, wife Pearl, and eight other employee-accomplices were arrested in connection with the death of 41-year-old refugee, [...]
I thought I knew what pro-choice means. I guess I don’t. In fact I have difficulty with most pro-choice language. Take sex-selective abortion. It’s about expectant couples who prefer sons to daughters and use ultrasound to find out what they’re going to have. If it’s a daughter, they abort her. When I learned that pro-choicers are against sex-selective abortion, I [...]
When the Ontario Court of Appeals ruled that the immemorial definition of marriage as the union between one man and one woman violated the equity provisions of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, social conservatives opposed the short-sighted and egregious activism of the court on many grounds. We argued that, in addition to misunderstanding (and far exceeding) the proper bounds of the [...]
Editor’s Note: Interim editor Paul Tuns interviewed Family Coalition Party leader Phil Lees by email on Dec. 17. The Interim: Tell us a little bit about your background, including your leadership of the Hamilton-Wentworth Family Action Council? Phil Lees: As an educator for more than 30 years I worked as a teacher, teacher consultant and curriculum designer, at all levels [...]
Here are The Interim's top 10 Canadian stories of 2010. Some of them bring us hope in our battle for Life and Family issues, while others remind us there is still a lot of work to be done. 10. Formation of Parliamentary Caucus. On an April 21 press conference a group of MPs announced the creation of the non-partisan Parliamentary [...]
Let us begin by looking at holidays as they existed in earlier societies, and trying to distinguish between a few main types of holidays as they exist today. In the English language, the word “holiday” is derived from the word “holy day.” In earlier European societies, traditional holidays were usually bound up with the Christian religion – or what could be considered [...]
On Dec. 3, a little more than a month after receiving LifeCanada`s Mother Teresa Award for outstanding pro-life activism, Heather Stilwell, a culture warrior and pro-life heroine, passed away after losing a two-year battle with breast cancer. While not unexpected, the news hit pro-lifers hard. Campaign Life Coalition national president Jim Hughes told The Interim that her death is the [...]
We have a review of A Matter of Conscience by John Haas, Douglas Farrow, Francois Pouliot, and Maria Kraw. The book is a collection of presentations from the first annual meeting of the Canadian Federation of Catholic Doctor's Guild in 2009. The review is good, the book is excellent and the points both make about how conscience is formed is important. The bottom line on the [...]
Ask parents to come up with things that make their children cringe, and you will have enough material to fill an entire 32-volume Encyclopædia Britannica set. Such a list would likely include the ever unpopular liver and onions, green vegetables, romantic movies and, without question, big, thick, heavy hardcover books. It doesn’t matter if your child likes to read, or would rather [...]