On May 18, the Supreme Court found that a section of the Canada Elections Act, the so-called Gag Law, passed by Parliament, did not violate the Charter Rights of Canadians. By a comfortable margin, the Court upheld the legislation by a vote of 6-3. This is an outrage. This judgment was judicial activism by omission: the same Supreme Court which has so [...]
I can't see the point of putting rich Martha Stewart in jail. I have a list of people that could go around the block who should go there first. I like to think of Martha ending up in jail as "lawyer failure." So she acted on a tip and lied about it under oath. Yes, she should have humbly confessed. Juries are [...]
By Interim staffShanghai, China's most populous city and one of the first to adopt the country's coercive one-child policy 31 years ago, has announced an exception to the rule. The city has declared that if two divorced individuals remarry and they are both only children, they may have a child together, even if they had children in their previous marriage. Previously, such [...]
Interim Staff Jiang Jie was born in Beijing, China in 1963. She was educated at the Arts and Crafts School of Beijing and at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, where she is currently an associate professor in the Department of Sculpture. The Toronto Sculpture Garden is on King Street, just east of Church Street, and is operated by the [...]
Perhaps, the New Democratic Party should change its name to the No Democracy Party. The Interim has obtained the official party response to questionnaires sent by Campaign Life Coalition and Life Ethics Educational Association to all federal candidates and the NDP are requiring strict adherence to their pro-abortion, pro-euthanasia and pro same-sex "marriage" positions. Windsor-area NDP MP Brian Masse apparently forwarded his [...]
For 21 years, a now-retired religion teacher from Mississauga, Ont. has been taking young people and adults to Third World countries not only to expose Canadians to the poverty afflicting people elsewhere in the world, but also to help promote a broader meaning of the term "pro-life." "I see a connection between children in difficult Third World circumstances and what being a [...]
Peter Tassi looked into the eyes of those gathered around him - survivors and offspring of the 1994 Rwandan genocide that some now say may have taken more than a million lives. "You are from the superpower, from paradise," they told the Hamilton Catholic high school chaplain. "Where were you in 1994 with your planes and your bombs? Why didn't you come [...]
Editor's note: This article contains some graphics descriptions of killings. Ten years have now passed since the genocide in Rwanda, which may have taken a toll of over a million lives in its 100-day run. However, if current news headlines are any indication, the agony of many parts of Africa continues unabated. At Ground Zero, a number of startling revelations came to [...]
Aliens in America: The Strange Truth About Our Souls By Peter Augustine Lawler, ISI Books, 298 pages 24.95 U.S.,Reviewed by As citizens of a First World nation endowed with an amazing degree of peace, prosperity, longevity and opportunities for personal advancement, it is easy to forget that our predicament is in large part the consequence of the Enlightenment project of overcoming the [...]
The other day, the guy on my local radio station mentioned that The Passion of The Christ was the number one movie in America. "So congrats to Mel Gibson," he said. "And it'll probably hold on to the number one slot until the new Starsky & Hutch opens." It's always useful to keep things in proportion. But, in fact, Starsky & Hutch [...]
There should be communication in the family. In spite of the different opinions which always occur in families, the family should be characterized by peace, love and joy. American author Dolores Curran's book, Traits of a Healthy Family, tells how she wrote a letter and sent it to 500 "experts" on the question of family living. In the letter, she gave 56 [...]
Media affairs dominate this edition of Corporate Watch. In the wake of the Janet Jackson breast-baring episode during the Super Bowl half-time show, the spotlight is shining on the MTV television channel, which is owned by Viacom. The new website BoycottMTV.net has attracted more than 120,000 people, who say they will eschew a media outlet that, according to one British observer, has [...]
There can be seen today, in late modern society, a furtive obsession with sex in all its forms and manifestations. This is likely to be, among many people, an attempt to psychologically counteract the fact that, almost everywhere in late-modern society, death (abortion), sterility (the collapse of large and stable families), violence (burgeoning crime rates), and horror (in the media) reign. Late-modern [...]
The national news media are biased. No news here. The media have never made a pretense of objectivity. They don't claim to be unbiased, or particularly factual for that matter (although it may appear that way). Not that the monolithic liberal media machine has said it in such unambiguous terms, but anyone who is paying attention knows that "neutrality" is a "great [...]
By Peter Stock The Interim Spanking is okay ... sometimes. So says the Supreme Court of Canada. In a 6-3 decision, the court upheld as generally constitutional Section 43 of the Criminal Code, which provides an exemption from criminal prosecution for parents, teachers, police or other authority figures who use "reasonable" physical force to restrain or discipline a child. The majority of [...]