It’s hard writing about Queen’s Park, an institution that needs 175 Peter Kormoses to liven it up. This is a dreadfully boring era. Years ago if this happened, a good duel would lighten things up. Now for excitement, you’ve got Premier Dalton McGuinty doing hopscotch for the media on the first day of school, only to find that the minister of education, [...]
Pope Benedict XVI received Canadian bishops from the province of Ontario Sept. 8 at his summer residence of Castelgandolfo. The Pope noted that while Canada seems to have sufficient efforts in the area of “justice and peace,” it is sorely lacking in protection for life and family. “Canada has a well-earned reputation for a generous and practical commitment to justice and peace,” [...]
As I write this column, I am about to rejoin Newstalk 1010 CFRB, the largest private radio station in the country and one of the most famous in North America. It is based in Toronto, but has an audience throughout Ontario on radio and across the country and abroad through the internet. It is an institution, the best of its kind. I [...]
How is it that the world’s smallest sovereign state is creating so much news? The Roman pontiff, Pope Benedict XVI, sparked a firestorm of controversy last month when he quoted from a 14th century Byzantine emperor. The quotation, which was quickly taken from its context, was widely disseminated in the Middle East. The larger point of Pope Benedict’s address (which, as Gerald [...]
A visiting celestial wanderer might easily conclude that we earthlings think happiness is utterly dependent on constant sexual stimulation and condomized activity from the time we cut our teeth. Very few of the activities that preoccupy us today are without sexual overtones. (Except maybe war.) So if that is the standard by which we measure happiness, our world should be happy, indeed. [...]
Communist authorities jailed three lawyers for a blind Chinese activist in a bumbling attempt to disrupt a fair court hearing for the activist who exposed local officials forcing women to undergo late-term abortions and sterilizations according to the Associated Press. According to the AP, the lawyers represent Chen Guangcheng, 34, who was arrested by local authorities after documenting claims by villagers in [...]
The Tower of Babel, once a localized edifice, apparently has been extended to the point where it now covers the entire world. Language is no longer intelligible anywhere and, as a direct result, people throughout the globe no longer think. In our bizarro world, contradictions abound: good means bad, morality means slavery and inclusive means exclusive. A new “educational” program in Australia, [...]
Is government doing enough to protect kids from pedophiles? Interim Staff The recent capture of pedophile Peter Whitmore has prompted Canadians to debate his surprisingly lax treatment at the hands of this country’s justice system over the past decade. Writing in the Toronto Sun, pundit Linda Williamson noted several consistencies about Whitmore’s criminal behaviour: “his predilection for befriending and ‘grooming’ his young [...]
The redefinition of marriage in Canada has caused so much scandal and confusion that marriage, as a concept, is in danger of becoming bankrupt. As the terms of the debate strain under the weight of politics and punditry, the only sure and irrefutable argument for marriage has become marriage itself. Of course, the beauty of marriage is its own defence. When two [...]
On Oct. 16, 2004, an unprecedented number of Nova Scotians voted on whether to allow Sunday shopping. In Halifax, 51 per cent said yes; province-wide, 55 per cent said no. The binding plebiscite made Nova Scotia the only Canadian province to reject Sunday shopping. Small businesses and services with less than 4,000 square feet (270 square metres) of retail space could still [...]
“Gay pride” season has come and gone on and it’s once again time to look at some of the key corporate and public backers of the annual festivities. Pride Toronto was supported by Labatt (a diamond sponsor at $100,000-plus that donates all the beer sold), TD Canada Trust and VIA Rail Canada (platinum sponsors), CTV, Air Canada, Rogers, and Polar Ice Vodka [...]
Shortly after announcing that he would be known as Benedict XVI, the new Pope confirmed what some had speculated about his selection of the name: Benedict “represents a fundamental point of reference for the unity of Europe and a strong reminder of the unrenounceable Christian roots of its culture and civilization.” Just before he was proclaimed Pope, Benedict collaborated on a book, [...]
In this third installment of our critique of Canadian healthcare, we continue our look at specific, individual incidents pointing out the fact that a system that kills more than 100,000 preborn Canadians a year, throws out the classic Hippocratic Oath and is in sympathy with licentious sex education - as well as the liberal distribution of abortifacient “morning-after pills” and other questionable [...]
Compromises needed to get necessary support Interim Staff Raising the age at which children can legally consent to sex, from the current 14 years of age, is something Conservative MPs, such as former Calgary police detective Art Hanger, have been pushing for since many of them came to Ottawa as Reformers in 1993. Right now, adults 30, 40 or 50 years old [...]
An analysis of mainstream media treatment of the recent arrests of 17 Ontario residents on terrorism-related charges is a study in contrasts – contrasts, that is, with media treatment of incidents involving pro-life and “anti-abortion” figures over the years. The media took great pains to point out that the individuals rounded up after their plot to commit terrorist-type acts was uncovered were [...]