Cardinal Ambrozic 'Sorry, disappointed and upset' with PM's abortion stand In widely reported comments, Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien, said "I am a Catholic and for abortion." The prime minister's remarks were made en route to Athens recently during a frank discussion with reporters in which he boasted that he was superior to U.S. President Bush on fiscal and social matters. Through [...]
The provinces oppose it and so do the police. Even much of the federal Liberal caucus opposes it, yet Jean Chretien is intent on pushing through Bill C-38 to decriminalize the possession of sizable amounts of marijuana. Introduced May 27 by Justice Minister Martin Cauchon, the bill will permit "pot" smokers to possess 15 grams of marijuana, equivalent to several marijuana cigarettes, [...]
The U.S. House of Representatives, by a two-thirds vote (282-139), joined the Senate in approving a bill to ban partial-birth abortions. The bill (H.R. 760) legally defines a partial-birth abortion as any abortion in which the baby is delivered alive until "in the case of breech presentation, any part of the fetal trunk past the navel is outside the body of the [...]
According to Campaign Life Coalition New Brunswick president Peter Ryan, the June 9 elections in his Atlantic Canadian province offered tremendous hope for pro-lifers across the country. The elections saw Progressive Conservative Premier Bernard Lord's huge majority shrunk from 46 seats to 28, in the 55-seat provincial legislature. Ryan told The Interim that the bare majority should make for a more intriguing [...]
The media focused on a deal between anti-free trade activist David Orchard and Nova Scotia MP Peter MacKay (Pictou-Antigonish-Guysborough) that secured the latter's election as leader for the federal Progressive Conservative Party but brought into question the party's commitment to fiscal conservative issues. But pro-lifers lamented the lack of social conservative ideas among the leadership candidates. The race in which MacKay eventually [...]
Satire, according to the New Collins Concise English Dictionary, is described as occurring when "topical issues, folly or evil are held up to ridicule." And also "the use of ridicule, irony, etc. to create such an effect." One of the readers of my column (or perhaps my only reader) recently wrote in complaining about me badmouthing Jean Crouton. She implied that I [...]
On April 14, the Liberal Party of Quebec (PLQ) won the election with a comfortable majority (76 seats out of 125) and became the new government in Quebec. Until the middle of the short campaign, just 33 days, it was not clear which party would win. In fact, the PQ was ahead before the leaders' debate that occurred in the middle of [...]
As we report on page 3, the Canadian Institutes for Health Research has gone ahead with its own plans on funding and regulating embryonic stem cell research, despite the fact that legislation on this issue is currently before the House of Commons. The announcement by the federally funded medical research agency's president, Dr. Alan Bernstein, has been condemned in Parliament by MPs [...]
Shame on Prime Minister Jean Chretien, who recently told a Liberal Party fundraising event in Montreal that among the reasons Canada is a better country than the United States is the fact that we have legal abortion. It is sick to suggest that the slaughter of approximately 115,000 unborn babies in the womb is virtuous and a sign of superiority over our [...]
Have religious and constitutional objections to homosexuality and gay rights become unacceptable in modern-day public life? Defenders of traditional values contend that homosexual activists are attempting to enforce a pro-gay party line through intimidation, and point to recent attacks against federal Tory Deputy Leader Elsie Wayne and U.S. Senator Rick Santorum as examples. In April, Santorum, a Republican senator from Pennsylvania, commented [...]
A confidential document on Liberal government letterhead was sent to Liberal members of the justice committee considering the question of same-sex "marriage." The document, a copy of which was acquired by LifeSite, says that the government has no choice but to legalize homosexual "marriage." The paper, written by the Liberals' research branch, rejects all the compromise suggestions being considered by the government [...]
Political action during the upcoming New Brunswick election is the best way for pro-life supporters in the province to get their message across to those who need to hear it. That was the message delivered recently as more than 50 delegates from across New Brunswick gathered in Fredericton for a Campaign Life Coalition New Brunswick provincial election-readiness workshop. Jim Hughes, national president [...]
"Hello!! Is President Bush there? It's de Prime Minister of Canada calling! Jean Chretien ... Yes C-h-r-e-t-i-e-n. Yes, dat's right. I've been waiting for three hours." "I'm sorry, but President Bush is having a state dinner with Tony Blair, the prime minister of Great Britain, and he doesn't want to be disturbed. They're celebrating." "Yes, I can hear the noise." "President Bush [...]
On April 5, the Christian Heritage Party held its spring conference at Redeemer University College in Ancaster, Ont. Although the last vestiges of Ontario's April ice storm made travel difficult, 126 supporters, some from as far away as Walkerton, gathered to hear speakers address the theme of "Strategies to Advance the Christian Heritage Party of Canada." The group included a healthy contingent [...]
One of the most puzzling questions regarding stem cell research has been: why are researchers so hungry for embryonic stem cells, despite the controversy and dangers over their use, and at the same time, seem to be shunning non-controversial and much more successful adult stem cells? MP Paul Szabo, the resident expert on the matter in the Canadian House of Commons, posited [...]