If demography is destiny, this country is in trouble In March, Statistics Canada released a report on Canada’s population that provided a very sobering picture. Well, it would be sobering, if Canadians woke up to the reality that we are not having enough children and that in doing so, we risk radically changing this nation. StatsCan did find that between 2001 and [...]
Dr. Miriam Grossman isn’t pro-life yet. She doesn’t know that “emergency contraception” can end a pregnancy. She also doesn’t know that abortion is always wrong, even when “neutral healing ground” is offered for recovery. No, Grossman isn’t pro-life yet – but her book is already a boon to pro-lifers. A UCLA campus psychiatrist who published the volume anonymously before “outing” herself, Grossman [...]
Civil liberties association steps into fray The Canadian Civil Liberties Association unexpectedly entered a battle for freedom of speech on the abortion issue, acting as intervenor on behalf of a Saskatchewan nurse sued for demonstrating against abortion. The CCLA filed an affadavit declaring that the organization backed the rights of pro-life nurse Bill Whatcott, who in 2004 was fined $15,000 and given [...]
For years, we social conservatives have complained about the liberal bias in the media and the lack of coverage of issues of concern to us. And so we threw up our hands and sucked it up, figuring there was nothing we could do about it. In this day and age, we no longer have an excuse. There is one medium that is [...]
For far too long, the interests of the “vital centre” of Canadian society have been neglected. The term vital centre, while borrowed from American liberal thought, takes on a much different meaning in social conservative thinking. By vital centre I mean the real social mainstream – those decent, honest and hardworking people of whatever class, religion or ethnic background on whom the [...]
Notwithstanding inconclusive evaluations of its success, Liberal party leader Stephane Dion has praised Vancouver’s supervised drug injection facility and promised that as prime minister, he would support mayors of other cities who want to establish similar projects. Relying on favourable information from the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS – including a notable study from November 2006 – Dion made two specific [...]
It is a rare event when the secular press carries a Christian conversion story. Such an event, therefore, should be given additional attention. On Jan. 27, Canada’s National Post carried Dawn Eden’s conversion story under the slightly indelicate title, “Between my sheets, a lonely world.” It is both heartwarming and heartrending. Coming home, at long last, to the Catholic church is always a [...]
For several weeks in February, the Globe and Mail appointed itself the official opposition to the federal government, running numerous articles, columns and editorials criticizing the process by which the Conservative government of Stephen Harper is choosing judges. Last year, the government amended the composition of the federal Judicial Advisory Committees that examine government nominees to various courts. The makeup of the 12 [...]
A Canadian representative to the United Nations, originally appointed under the previous Liberal administration and now supposedly acting under the direction of the current Conservative government, berated delegations from several Muslim countries for opposing the observer status of a Quebec-based gay activist group. The National Post reported on Feb. 2 that the Coalition gaie et lesbienne du Quebec (CGLQ) was rejected by the [...]
It was the first time I had been physically attacked for being a pro-life activist or a reporter. “You’re that guy from The Interim,” said the assailant with a snear. His name was Brad Hexum: he was young, muscular and renowned in local professional wrestling circles for his ill temper and even worse attitude. He shoved me to the ground and starting kicking [...]
Editor’s note: Due to the author’s overarching desire to re-establish to the postmodern West such qualities as morality, civility and the classical modes of rhetoric, she has replaced in the following all quoted uses of the word under discussion with “eff,” with appropriate grammatical derivations thereof. That “eff,” “effing,” “eff off,” “eff about” and “eff up” have entered the general lexicon through [...]
He’s done it again. Before retiring this spring at the age of 75 – despite never having even been a judge or practising lawyer before attaining the pinnacle of the judiciary in his province – Ontario Chief Justice Roy McMurtry has taken one more kick at the traditional family structure by ruling, with Justices Marc Rosenberg and Jean-Marc Labrosse, that a five-year-old [...]
A Burlington, Ont.-based organization, which will be the recipient of funds raised at the Feb. 10 With Love Comes Hope concert in Hamilton, is working in 51 countries around the world to combine education and mission with the goal of ensuring everyone has access to Christian education. Worldwide Christian Schools was founded in the mid-1980s in Grand Rapids, Mich. and a sister [...]
P.E.I. and Nova Scotia were the last two Canadian provinces to prohibit widespread Sunday shopping. P.E.I.’s pharmacies, corner stores and similar small operations have long been permitted to open on Sundays, but large retailers were restricted to the last four weeks before Christmas. Nova Scotia’s beleaguered government abandoned the battle this fall after a court permitted large retailers to open on Sundays. [...]
“Will the shofar be blown in the city and the populace will not tremble?” (Amos 3:6) When Rabbi Yehuda Levin blows the shofar at Washington’s annual March for Life, he is continuing a two-decade tradition there, initiated by Jews for Morality. And by using a ram’s horn on each anniversary of Roe v. Wade, he is also placing the pro-life cause within the [...]