CLC encouraged by growth of new conservative parties Paul Tuns: Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives returned with a larger majority than it won in 2018, but Campaign Life Coalition is “encouraged” by the showing of two upstart parties with pro-life leaders and policies, the New Blue led by Jim Karahalios and Derek Sloan’s Ontario Party. According to Campaign Life Coalition, there were more [...]
Philip Tomchyshyn: On May 17, Halton Catholic District School Board trustee Helena Karabela proposed a motion to alter the board’s fundraising policies by recognizing the sanctity of life. The motion, “Upholding the Sanctity of Life in Fundraising Services at the Halton Catholic District School Board – Embryonic Stem Cell Research,” stated “that the Halton Catholic District School Board because it is a [...]
Lewis is the only pro-life candidate among six vying for Tory leadership Paul Tuns: Of the six contenders for the Conservative leadership, only one, MP Leslyn Lewis, has been rated pro-life by Campaign Life Coalition. CLC was hoping that former Ontario MPP Roman Baber would be a viable down-ballot candidate for pro-lifers because he has vowed to allow MPs to vote their [...]
Oswald Clark: On May 20, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone wrote to Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, whose congressional district is in the prelate’s archdiocese, to inform her that as a pro-abortion politician she can no longer present herself for Holy Communion when she is in San Francisco. He wrote that the Roman Catholic Church has been “clear and [...]
Interim Staff: On May 10, the Bloc Québecois put forward a motion to eliminate the daily morning prayer that begins the House of Commons proceedings. It was defeated the next day in a 266-56 vote, with Conservative and Liberal MPs voting against the motion, while the Bloc and majority of NDP MPs voting to support it. According to the House of Commons [...]
Interim Staff: In the aftermath of the leaked Dobbs decision that could overturn Roe v. Wade, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his government would “move forward as necessary on ensuring that not just under this government but under any future government the rights of women are properly protected.” Trudeau insisted that the majority of MPs “will always defend women’s rights and if [...]
John Carpay: Will Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act, empower the federal government to censor controversial and unpopular speech on the internet? Not immediately. But the Online Streaming Act (OSA) is a significant and dangerous first step towards government control of the internet. The stated purpose of the OSA is not particularly controversial: to bring influential streaming services like Netflix, Disney and [...]
Paul Tuns: Campaign Life Coalition’s National March for Life attracted approximately 6000 people to Ottawa, gathered on Parliament Hill, and proceeded to march through the streets of the nation’s capital, demanding an end to abortion. CLC national president Jeff Gunnarson told The Interim he was thrilled with the March, which he thought had a special buzz about it coming a week after [...]
M. Stanton Evans: Conservative Wit, Apostle of Freedom: by Steven F. Hayward (Encounter, $45, 391 pages) Paul Tuns Review Steven Hayward’s new biography of M. Stanton Evans is overdue; he was a giant in the U.S. conservative movement but he remains criminally under-appreciated. Evans graduated from Yale shortly after William Buckley did and quickly began serving the movement from both inside and [...]
Paul Tuns: The Conservative Party’s Leadership Election Organizing Committee (LEOC) did not verify two candidates green-lit by Campaign Life Coalition by discerning fundraising rules in a novel way to block the pair of pro-life candidates from being on the ballot when members vote for a new leader later this summer. While MP Marc Dalton did not raise enough money to cover the [...]
Rory Leishman: On March 31, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson dealt a devastating blow to the predominance of transgender ideologues, by announcing that his Conservative government would not proceed with a promise to ban transgender conversion therapy. What can account for this abrupt about-face on a key policy issue by a government and prime minister that have hitherto sedulously courted the favour [...]
Interim Staff: On March 23, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addressed the European Parliament in Brussels, where he was condemned by a half-dozen Members of European Parliament (MEP). Trudeau talked about “rising threats to democracy” including Vladimir Putin’s Russia, inflation, and economic uncertainty. He told the half-empty chamber that “we must recommit ourselves to the work of strengthening our democracies, and demonstrate the [...]
Oswald Clark: The Biden administration’s proposed 2023 budget, released March 28, did not include the Hyde Amendment which prohibits federal taxpayer dollars from being used through Medicaid or government-employee benefits programs to pay for abortions except to save the life of the woman or in cases of rape or incest. The proposed 2023 budget also included a funding increase for the United [...]
Paul Tuns: Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tabled the federal budget on April 7 and most media coverage focused on the size of the deficit, measures to address the housing affordability crisis, new defense spending and a new dental program, and tax increases for large businesses and the wealthy. But there are a number of anti-life and anti-family initiatives in the budget that [...]
Canadian Conservatives and Ontario voters will have the opportunity to do something heroic in the next few months: defend preborn children. As we report on page two, there could be as many as four pro-life candidates seeking the Conservative Party of Canada leadership. On the same page we report on another positive development, the rise of two new Ontario parties led by [...]