Constitutional checklist Parliamentary Reform -New Senate to include six senators from each province, one from each territory, plus six native senators (68). -Senate would have absolute veto on new taxes on natural resources; questions of French language and culture require double majority of total senators and of francophone senators; a simple majority against other Commons bills forces joint sitting of Senate and [...]
Four people are in prison in a remote area. They have never been charged with a crime; they have never received even the pretence of a trial. On the arbitrary command of an appointed government official, they were simply rounded up and ordered held indefinitely. The reason- they refused to obey his demand that they do something intrinsically evil, that they act [...]
I believe that we are all called by our Christian faith to be more then bystanders The Family Coalition Party of Ontario gives us an opportunity to work towards a better tomorrow for all the citizens in Ontario. The morals that form the cornerstone of the FCP have formed the basis of society around the world. Anti-life is anti-family Unlike any previous [...]
Campaign Life Coalition and Alliance for Life do not take a position on the Referendum. The following editorial, therefore, is the opinion of the editor. *** Since 1980 Canadians have faced half a dozen government- manufactured “crises” about taxes, trade and unity. With a gun to the head, voters are told to say “Yes” or else they are accused of destroying the [...]
Pro-life organizers are blaming themselves for a narrow defeat at the hands of a high-profile Liberal at the Scarborough East nomination meting Sept.21 Doug Peters, who has been hand picked by the Liberal party and parachuted into the riding, squeaked by pro-life candidate Joe Bissonnette plans to appeal the results to the Liberal Party of Canada. The voting saw bus loads of [...]
Charlottetown – In recent months, the University of Prince Edward Island, part of which was formerly the Roman Catholic St. Dunstan’s University, has been the setting for several feminist-engendered events and personalities. In May, June Callwood co-founder of CARAL (Canadian Abortion Rights Action League) was the Convocation Speaker and received an honorary degree. A few days later Doris Anderson, founder of NAC [...]
Ontario NDP member Peter Kormos, now a backbencher, has a reputation for being Premier Bob Rae’s greatest nemesis on many issues, the most notorious being no-fault auto insurance and Sunday shopping. Some believe he will successfully run for leader of the NDP when Rae steps aside to enter the federal scene. In an informal interview with Kormos, the Interim’s Frank Kennedy tries [...]
Communism has collapsed in Eastern Europe after 45 years – 70 in the old Soviet Union – of destructive presence. Feminism, in its modern and similarly destructive form, has a shorter (though related) history, but already the informed critique is exposing it and presaging its certain eventual collapse. Betty Steele has now contributed a second book (after The Feminist Takeover published in [...]
In the last four issues The Interim has been documenting cases of provincial intrusion into religiously run hospitals. Catholic hospitals throughout the country are under increasing pressure from governments to relinquish health-care management to the province. The provincial governments of Saskatchewan, New Brunswick and now Newfoundland contend that these takeovers will save money. The hospitals feel that their medical ethics will be [...]
Halifax – The new leader of the Liberal Party in Nova Scotia is Dr. John Savage, mayor of Dartmouth. He is described as a “Welsh-Irish Catholic doctor with seven children.” Savage opposes abortion on moral and religious grounds, but does not want to “impose his own moral views on anyone else.” Needless to say Dr. Savage has no hesitation “imposing” his other [...]
Ottowa – In February 1992 Jean Chretien announced the creation of a “Special task Force on Women.” On April 22 the members of this Liberal Party Committee were announced, four to represent the Liberal Caucus and four to represent the party. Seven of the eight members are pro-abortion feminists: Mary Clancy, MP (Halifax); Marlene Catterall, MP (Ottawa West); David Walker, MP (Winnipeg, [...]
KIDNAPPING Washington. By a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court in Washington in May 1992 declared it legal to kidnap foreigners in their own countries for trial by American courts. Chief Justice Rehnquist applied a longstanding doctrine that courts may try defendants without regard to how they were brought before them. But dissenting justices called the decision “monstrous,” American diplomats were embarrassed by [...]
Abuse of Canada Council Ottawa, Ont. – MP Don Boudria (Lib. Glengarry), who helped quash a bill to legalize mercy killing last winter, expressed outrage that Vancouver’s John Hofsess is using Canada Council money to promote his Right to Die Society. In a newsletter obtained by the Ottawa Sun, Hofsess said that he wanted to buy television time to show people “the [...]
The Ottawa Citizen is pushing mightily for legalized homosexual “marriages” in Canada. The paper’s Managing Editor, Sharon Burnside, has denied any homosexual agenda, yet recently told an outraged reader the paper wishes to “foster a more accepting attitude” towards homosexual relationships. In late May the Citizen used its front page for its set purpose. “Landmark lawsuit seeks to legalize gay marriages,” said [...]
In October 1991 Associate Defense Minister Mary Collins argued that homosexuals should be allowed to serve in the armed forces. “Whether you’re a man or a woman, a black or a white, a Jew or a Christian, a homosexual or not, what does it matter?” she asked a parliamentary committee. MP Pat Nowlan replied that the Americans do not allow homosexuals in [...]