When 3.2 million people gather together, the largest public gathering in New England history, to celebrate a baseball victory, you know it cannot be just about a baseball victory. Major League Baseball, as every Boston Red Sox fan knows, is a religion. It has supernatural significance. For 86 years, so it seemed to statistics-intoxicated Bosox followers, the Red Sox laboured under a [...]
As an all-star goalie in the NHL for a decade, Ken Dryden always played a defensive role and never scored a goal himself. After his first meeting with the provinces as the federal Liberal government's new social development minister, the former Montreal Canadien must be wondering if his political career is going to be all that different. Dryden is the Liberals' point [...]
After a year's wait, the global Anglican Communion has finally received the Windsor Report, which was commissioned by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Reactions are coming in fast from around the world. The report, published Oct. 18, hopes to prevent a schism in the 75-million-member body in the wake of the Episcopal church's blessing of an actively gay bishop and the approval of [...]
The latest provincial court ruling to redefine marriage was delivered by a Saskatchewan judge in late October. The ruling was easy to justify, because the federal government lawyer responsible for upholding the law refused to defend the definition of marriage in court. Saskatchewan became the sixth province to stand the institution of marriage on its head. Even so, the rulings can be [...]
Like many Canadians, I was closely watching what happened in the American election. I'm sure that Stephen Harper and Paul Martin were watching, too. But I'm not sure they will see the same things that many other observers saw - how decisive life, faith and family were to President George W. Bush's re-election. The political experts tell us that this presidential election [...]
'Values voters' made the difference in the vote Almost immediately following the Nov. 2 elections, the political left and their media allies began to blame socially conservative voters for the defeat of Democratic presidential candidate Senator John Kerry. To cite just one example, a Chicago Tribune cover story was headlined, "Bush rides moral issues, terror fears to second term." Some on the [...]
The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) has been actively supporting homosexual organizations and events for years through corporate donations and sponsorships. It publicly trumpeted its sponsorship of Toronto's gay pride parade and a number of gay and lesbian groups list RBC as a benefactor. Yet the bank's support of homosexual causes seems to go beyond donations. It made the news a couple [...]
Justices questioning why feds put question before top court On Oct. 6, the Supreme Court of Canada began what may be the most important case before the top court since the Morgentaler and Borowski cases in the late 1980s, in terms of this country's social fabric. The court held three days of hearings on the federal government's reference question, in which the [...]
Rule #2: Losers Pay In almost every case cited last month, the money that allowed lawyers and judges to re-write Canada's social rubric, divine the intent of the original authors and thumb their noses at social conservatives, came from, you guessed it, the Canadian taxpayer. Of course the official line is that the money came from our civil government - but everybody [...]
When federal Justice Minister Irwin Cotler announced recently that the pool of potential candidates for the two vacancies on the Supreme Court of Canada was "an embarrassment of riches," he got it partly right. A total embarrassment for the Canadian people that the choices that the "pool" for judges shrunk to Louise Charron and Rosalie Abella, two left-leaning radical feminists who favour [...]
Interim Staff Hamilton's "gay community" is up in arms after a multi-agency task force inspected a bathhouse in the city in August - even though the facility was just one of 14 businesses visited by the force that same night. The reverberations are being felt in Toronto, where gays there pledged to get involved and sympathetic media outlets ran coverage. A team [...]
Two new Anglican structures commissioned In the wake of their national church declaring homosexual relations holy, 700 biblically orthodox Anglicans have met in Ottawa to form two new organizations: the Anglican Federation and the Anglican Network. The two structures were commissioned during The Way Forward, a national conference Aug. 30-Sept. 1 sponsored by Essentials, a coalition of evangelical, charismatic and prayer book [...]
John Kerry's flip-flops are well-documented and becoming more and more frequent. Almost daily, it seems, the Kerry campaign offers us contradictory statements on a variety of issues and this week has been no exception. Yesterday, it was traditional marriage. On the campaign trail, Senator Kerry insists he supports marriage remaining the union of one man and one woman - even though he [...]
Because family and work are sources of stability and dignity, I support welfare reform that strengthens family and requires work. Because a caring society will value its weakest members, we must make a place for the unborn child. Because - because religious charities provide a safety net of mercy and compassion, our government must never discriminate against them. Because the union of [...]
Politics and ideology swayed selections, suggests senior journalist In response to Prime Minister Paul Martin's call to close the "democratic deficit," Liberal Justice Minister Irwin Cotler introduced parliamentary hearings into the appointments of the two newest justices of the Supreme Court. Canada's mainstream and supposedly objective media, drawing its story line directly from Liberal party talking points once again, reported in late [...]