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. [...]
Family planning schemes spread AIDS BALTIMORE - A new study by the National Institutes of Health, University of North Carolina and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore said that international family planning schemes that promote the injected contraceptive Depo-Provera has led to a worsening of the AIDS epidemic and spread of other STDs in Africa, southeast Asia and South America. At first glance, [...]
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 [...]
Do you remember the 1980s comic strip about a boy and his stuffed tiger, the strip Calvin and Hobbes? It sometimes featured a game called Calvinball. The most outstanding thing about the rules of that game was that they changed. Continuously. In fact, in one of the classic panels that introduced the game, Calvin gleefully tells Hobbes that "the only permanent rule [...]
In the previous installment of Corporate Watch, we focused on some of the good things happening and how actions by pro-life and pro-family people were having an effect on corporate behaviour and the money flowing into anti-life and anti-family organizations. In this issue, we'll focus on some new and ongoing areas of concern. The Phoenix Suns basketball team - said to be [...]
LifeSite Daily NewsA group of same-sex "marriage" activists is planning an action to force Nova Scotia courts to decide on the status of homosexual "marriage" in that province. The group, the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project (NSRAP), bemoans that the federal government and Supreme Court of Canada are stalling on a national decision. The NSRAP is trying to force the matter by [...]
On August 12, the Supreme Court of California voided more that 4,000 marriage licenses that were issued to same-sex couples in San Francisco earlier this year. Pro-family attorneys and organizations declared victory with the revocation of the licenses as the Supreme Court ruled 7-0 that the San Francisco officials had "no legal authority" to issue them. In addition, the Court also decided [...]
Iain Benson's proposal to recognize gay unions is seductive, but wrong Should Parliament refuse to recognize marriage entirely? Would such a change bring social peace in the debate over the homosexual agenda? Many observers of the Centre for Cultural Renewal were left scratching their heads in July after an opinion piece written by the centre's senior fellow, Iain Benson, was published in [...]
Viacom runs ads after Pattison refuses to run such 'porn' Interim Staff Editor's Note: There are graphic descriptions of sexual content in this story. Health Canada and a handful of AIDS groups are running a new national HIV ad campaign targeting homosexual men, which features graphic black-and-white photographs of men apparently engaging in sexual acts. The ads contain slogans such, "He came [...]
David Bolton The Interim In December, The Interim ran a story of a single mother of twin boys who had, through the ministry of Aid to Women, changed her mind about aborting her twins 10 years earlier. Although Amelia and her boys, Jim and Bob, had been doing well since the birth of the twins, recent setbacks meant the family was once [...]
LifeSiteNews A recent report reveals the incidence of sexually transmitted disease is skyrocketing among Toronto's homosexual community. Since 1998, HIV infections have increased by 49 percent. In 1999, there were 19 syphilis cases reported, by 2002, this number had soared 10-fold to 195. Among heterosexuals, chlamydia and gonorrhea rates are also out of control, up by over 50 percent in the last [...]
LifeSiteNews The Canadian government, under the Liberal party, has long funded radical feminist organizations whose objective has been the transformation of society according to their vision. The same strategy has been used to advance the homosexual agenda. EGALE, the group that fought three court cases resulting in legalization of same-sex unions in Ontario, British Columbia and Quebec, has posted on its website [...]
Sue Careless The Interim Just three days after the Anglican Church of Canada declared homosexual relationships holy, 22 primates representing 70 per cent of Anglicans worldwide, called for the Canadian church to be expelled from their international communion. On June 3, the Canadian church's governing body, General Synod, voted in St. Catharines to "affirm the integrity and sanctity of committed adult same [...]
The Interim The debate over homosexual marriage in this year's federal election highlighted a deep division between the two major parties' views on the role of the legislature and the proper interpretation of the Charter of Rights. Although "sexual orientation" is not mentioned in the Charter, and its inclusion was specifically rejected by the drafters, activist judges in the Supreme Court read [...]
From March 28-31, over 3,200 people from across the globe gathered in Mexico City to attend the World Congress of Families III, the largest-ever international gathering of pro-family leaders, activists and thinkers. Hosted by the Family Network (Mexico), along with co-convening pro-family organizations from every continent, participants met, networked and forged an international pro-family alliance that transcends national borders, cultures and faith [...]