“Did I hear you gentlemen say, ‘Pro-life’?” She was the only woman in the restaurant in which I happened to be grabbing a late lunch with CLC Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. secretary Bill Murphy. We had crossed the St. Marys River to Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., where our friend Tony Stackpoole owned and operated Cup-a-Day restaurant. Tony was Bill’s counterpart with Sault [...]
Last Fall, federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said that his government intends to introduce pension splitting for seniors and that the Conservatives are open to income splitting for couples. The idea is to let couples split their income between them to pay lower taxes as a unit than the higher income earner or pensioner would individually. Presently, Canadians are taxed as individuals [...]
A new day has arrived for those of us who believe in the pro-life cause in Canada. We all remember the days when Human Life International had its charity status revoked for alleged political activity, while other pro-life groups were harassed by what is now known as the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency. Well, it’s time to level the playing field. In [...]
The homosexual “marriage” issue has fortunately awakened many sleeping Christians. Many, however, do not realize that homosexuals are pawns being used for political purposes in a culture war. The international socialist movement is using homosexuals as an excuse to further a socialist, anti-religious agenda. What better way to muzzle Christians than to pass “hate” legislation limiting churches’ freedom of speech? What better [...]
A Toronto-based group, Sex Professionals of Canada, is suing the federal government for maintaining laws criminalizing prostitution and thereby, they claim, endangering the lives of “sex trade workers.” The group’s executive director, Valerie Scott, said that communicating and bawdyhouse laws “are arbitrary,” and “do more harm than good.” The group is challenging Canada’s solicitation laws on constitutional grounds. SPOC calls itself a [...]
Following the tawdry example of theatres in England and the United States, the Grand Theatre of London, Ont. recently lured customers with a stage adaptation of the movie The Graduate that featured a lead actress appearing stark naked on the stage. Not to be outdone, London’s Centennial Hall has presented The Puppetry of the Penis, a play in which two [...]
Young Christian couples are rethinking contraceptive use and biblical teaching on human sexuality, in response to a growing awareness of the social damage caused by the sexual revolution, a foremost leader in the U.S evangelical community told Christianity Today magazine in October. Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., is a theologian and ordained minister, serving as president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, [...]
Physician-assisted suicide in the state of Oregon will be officially referred to as “death with dignity” from now on, the Oregon Department of Human Services has decided. Responding to pressure from the pro-euthanasia organization Compassion & Choice, the DHS initially agreed to change “physician-assisted suicide” to “physician-assisted death,” part of an effort to employ “friendlier” language by the movement, in order to [...]
Israel was born on May 14, 1948. The newly birthed nation had time for only a few breaths before her Muslim neighours – Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq – hurled themselves on her in a war of annihilation. However, Israel repulsed the invaders and survived to fight four more major wars, plus innumerable minor conflicts, over the next 58 years. [...]
The Charter of Rights of 1982 continues to dismantle the last remnants of our Christian culture in Canada. On Sept. 22, the Quebec Tribunal of Human Rights ordered the City of Laval, a suburb north of Montreal, to stop the traditional practice of prayer before the monthly city meetings. Mayor Gilles Vaillancourt has continued this good tradition despite a citizen’s formal complain [...]
The Sept. 9 editions of the Toronto Sun and the Toronto Star, two newspapers having pretensions to cosmic significance, carried the same hard-hitting storyline: “Pope slams Canada.” They were reporting on the comments Pope Benedict XVI had made on the previous day to seven Ontario bishops. Typical of secular newspapers, being more concerned with words that startle than with thoughts that nourish, [...]
Interim Staff It’s strange how priorities change. What is more important to the individual parent: the education and welfare of her child or the tax policy of the federal government? While both are important, this is not always borne out by the relative interest that people take in local versus national election campaigns. Perhaps they should think again, especially in light of [...]
Benedict XVI’s speech on Sept. 12 to scientists at the University of Regensburg, where he served as a professor, set off an unintended furor of controversy. It also highlighted an important dynamic in what Samuel Huntington describes as “the clash of civilizations.” The target of Benedict’s speech was not Islam, but modernity. Benedict took modernity to task for limiting reason to the [...]
Judy Parejko will never forget her ninth birthday. She was recovering from the funeral of her mother, who had passed away after a year-and-a-half struggle with cancer.” It was just my dad, my four sisters and me,” Judy tells The Interim. This childhood tragedy became the first step in Judy’s journey as one of North America’s most outspoken opponents of “no-fault” divorce. [...]
Adultery harms the relationship between parents and between parent and child. Theresa Smyth explores the issue. No-fault divorce has spawned an entire industry which family court mediator Judy Parejko has said no to. How does adultery impact children? The high-profile affairs of public figures and parents like Tie Domi and Belinda Stronach serve as a challenge to defenders of traditional marriage. We [...]