The U.S. Senate may not vote on a human cloning ban this year, with Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (Dem, S.D.) placing blame June 13 on anti-cloning forces, according to CNSNews.com. "Our hope was that we could get an agreement on the stem cell cloning debate," Daschle told reporters. But after offering June 12 to vote on Brownback's bill first, followed immediately [...]
The Canadian delegation was particularly active at this meeting, playing the role of champion for reproductive rights and freedoms for adolescents. When the EU tried to facilitate negotiations by compromising on reproductive health services language, Canada and several other countries formed a new negotiating block called the "Like-Minded Group" (composed of Canada, New Zealand, Norway and South Korea) in order to counter [...]
It is common knowledge within the Liberal Party of Canada that the 1990 leadership fight between Jean Chretien and Paul Martin never really ended with Chretien's victory. That feud became public in early June when Prime Minister Chretien fired Martin from his post as finance minister at a time when Martin was thinking of quitting anyway because the prime minister had called [...]
The UN's General Assembly Special Session on Children began its final set of negotiations at UN headquarters in New York on April 29, 2002. Almost eight months after the conference was supposed to have taken place after being canceled following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. The"reproductive health" controversy, which has reared its ugly head at all of the major [...]
Politics should be more than a spectator sport so although some people may delight in the happenings in the Liberal Party following the Prime Minister's sacking of his popular and effective Finance Minister Paul Martin, the possible leadership race raises serious issues for pro-lifers. The question for those of us who respect the sanctity of life and understand that the unborn deserve [...]
Living in a culture that is hostile towards traditional views of faith and morals, few of us would deny the hegemonic control exercised by our opponents upon our political parties, government bureaucracy, courts, academic institutions, unions, mass media and popular culture. One need only to look at the Canadian media's hostile portrayal of a few modest gains in bringing pro-family/pro-life views into [...]
Handful of Liberals had joined Alliance, Tory and NDP MPs in bid to raise age of consent Are horses more important than the safety of children? That's the impression the House of Commons gave in late April when it unanimously passed a bill declaring the Canadien horse as Canada's "national" horse, but struck down by votes of 163-62, and 154-71 two Canadian [...]
Chretien's caucus remarks illustrate little respect for religion Back in the 1870s, future Liberal prime minister Wilfred Laurier traveled through Quebec explaining that French-Canadian liberalism was not the anti-Catholic and anti-clerical liberalism of Europe, but the tolerant variety found in Britain. Once, in 1877, he claimed, "there is not a single Canadian Liberal who wants to prevent the clergy from taking part [...]
The Parliamentary Pro-Life Caucus kicked off this year's March for Life events with a May 9 press conference. Participating were 11 MPs including the three PPLC co-chairs, Paul Steckle (Lib, Huron-Bruce), Maurice Vellacott (CA, Saskatoon-Wanuskewin) and Elsie Wayne (PC, Saint John). Jason Kenney (CA, Calgary Southeast) also spoke, giving the pro-life message in French and Garry Breitkreuz (CA, Yorkton-Melville) was also given [...]
Returning from a mid-May, week-long break, the House of Commons has begun to debate the most important piece of legislation in a generation. Bill C-56, governing reproductive technologies, will focus on matters affecting the very nature of human life. It will address, after a decade-long wait, many of the issues originally raised by the Baird Royal Commission on the subject. And the [...]
I haven't decided yet whether Stephen Harper ordering Ontario Canadian Alliance backbencher Cheryl Gallant to apologize for uttering an allegedly anti-gay comment in the House of Commons is an adroit bit of brushfire quenching, or an uncourageous capitulation to political-correctness bullying. Perhaps a bit of both. However, the media and special-pleader tempest in a teapot over Gallant's indiscretion is fair warning that [...]
It's that time of year again, as we brush off the frost and snow that has gathered in our minds and get down to the task at hand. When British Columbians voted by the tens of thousands for the Liberal Party, many pro-lifers were in that number, hopeful that anything but the NDP would mark a change for the better. Well, boys [...]
As part of our continuing look back at the past during this, our 20th year of publication The Interim reprints this article, which originally appeared in the May 1993 issue. The Ontario government wants to make it illegal to counsel women or peacefully protest abortion in cities across the province. Attorney General Marion Boyd plans to seek a court order restricting pro-life [...]
Supremacy of Parliament replaced with supremacy of the Charter Canadians were recently inundated with media propaganda celebrating 20 years since the implementation of Pierre Trudeau's Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The mostly liberal media reported poll results indicating that 82 per cent of Canadians feel the Charter has been good for Canada. The Charter has been a feel-good exercise since its inception [...]
The 20th anniversary of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms was cause for much liberal self-congratulation. The federal government announced it would spend $1.5 million in pro-Charter propaganda and Jean Chretien praised the document, calling it "the most profoundly democratic declaration in our history." What was curious about Chretien's self-congratulatory remark (as Trudeau's Justice Minister he was one of the framers of [...]