Representing various faith backgrounds, proponents of traditional family values from across Ontario are praying for the Family Coalition Party. The movement began as a suggestion by an Alberta right-to-life activist who operates under the screen-name "Theresa" on FreeDominion.ca's Northern Ontario caucus. Participants pledge a specific time in their schedules to ask God's blessing and protection over the province's only pro-life party. "Campaigns [...]
In response to a debate on spanking that took place June 18 before the Senate committee of human rights, the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada presented a research report indicating its disapproval with the proposed legislation. The debated bill, S-207, would take out Section 43 of the Criminal Code (allowing spanking), thereby forbidding parents from spanking their children and effectively making [...]
Yes: a real chance to elect MPP Proposed new system of election renews hope HOW IT WORKS For more than 30 years, our efforts within right-to-life organizations have been directed towards passing a federal law recognizing the rights of the unborn. Individuals, organizations and churches have been working on different aspects of this cultural war: activism, education, political involvement and the spiritual. [...]
• Each party nominates its local candidates (as now), as well as a list of candidates for the whole province, in the order that it wants them to be elected. Before the election, parties must submit their lists, and the details of the process they used to create them, to Elections Ontario. Elections Ontario will publish this information widely, so voters will [...]
Practical tools to help the pro-life Christian to “be as wise as a serpent and as harmless as a dove” were taught at a Toronto seminar “to assist faith-oriented Canadians to participate responsibly in Canadian politics.” The two-day gathering, which was not focused on a specific issue or party, was offered May 11-12 by the Manning Centre for Building Democracy, along with [...]
Ontario’s Family Coalition Party has 35 candidates committed to run so far in the upcoming provincial election and hopes to have one in every riding by the time Oct. 10 arrives. Leader Giuseppi Gori, speaking to The Interim after the FCP’s 20th anniversary convention in Mississauga April 14, said many of the party’s candidates tend to emerge at the last-minute, so he [...]
A leading U.S. organization in the field of increasing the number and effectiveness of conservative public policy leaders brought its expertise north of the border recently as part of the annual convention of Ontario’s Family Coalition Party. The Leadership Institute held a Grassroots Campaign School that was co-sponsored by the FCP and the Christian Coalition International Canada in the Toronto suburb of [...]
The following are the reactions of the United States presidential contenders to the April 18, 5-4 ruling by the United States Supreme Court to uphold the 2003 federal ban on partial-birth abortion. Republicans Rudy Giuliani The Supreme Court reached the correct conclusion in upholding the congressional ban on partial-birth abortion. I agree with it. Sam Brownback I’m delighted that the Supreme Court [...]
When federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty delivered his second budget recently, the political left – the opposition parties, special interests and labour unions – railed against it for not funding universal childcare or environmental projects. The right – including the Canadian Taxpayers Federation and the Fraser Institute – complained that it did not restrain spending or offer broad-based tax cuts. While these [...]
On March 2, the opposition Tories in New Brunswick’s legislature introduced Bill 37, An Act to Amend the Marriage Act. MLA David Alward, who authored the bill, said it was an affirmation of the rights of those clergy and clerks of the court (marriage commissioners) who have conscientious objections to performing same-sex “marriages,” and was needed to prevent them from being prosecuted. [...]
Notwithstanding inconclusive evaluations of its success, Liberal party leader Stephane Dion has praised Vancouver’s supervised drug injection facility and promised that as prime minister, he would support mayors of other cities who want to establish similar projects. Relying on favourable information from the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS – including a notable study from November 2006 – Dion made two specific [...]
For several weeks in February, the Globe and Mail appointed itself the official opposition to the federal government, running numerous articles, columns and editorials criticizing the process by which the Conservative government of Stephen Harper is choosing judges. Last year, the government amended the composition of the federal Judicial Advisory Committees that examine government nominees to various courts. The makeup of the 12 [...]
The deputy minister of health in Alberta has admitted that both the federal and provincial public health agencies are aware some vaccines in use in Canada were produced with the use of cell lines from aborted babies. Furthermore, the Alberta government is set to provide alternative vaccines that are not tainted by abortion. The admission comes in a letter to Canadian Physicians [...]
Just before the Liberal leadership convention, the Liberal Women’s Caucus released their Pink Book, a slick public relations item that dresses up big government programs as progressive policies to benefit women. Belinda Stronach, heiress to the Magna fortune and self-anointed protector of middle-class women everywhere, is chair of the Liberal Women’s Caucus. Upon release of the Pink Book, she said the Tory [...]
On Dec. 21, federal Health Minister Tony Clement named the board for Assisted Human Reproduction Canada, an oversight agency established by the federal government to regulate reproductive and experimental technologies, such as in-vitro fertilization and stem cell research. This was done when it passed the Assisted Human Reproduction Act in 2004. Immediately, proponents of embryonic stem cell research and their media allies [...]