My wife has warned me about writing about Stockwell Day when The Interim comes out - feeling Stock may be a footnote in the pages of Canadian history by then. But, Stock, if you're gone by the time this paper comes out think Napoleon and his miraculous return from Elba to victory. Remember Stock, it's 'Napoleon!' 'Napoleon' 'Napoleon!' not 'Diefenbaker'! 'Diefenbaker!' 'Diefenbaker!' [...]
On June 9, 2001, the members of the Bloc Québécois celebrated the 10th anniversary of their party in Sorel. The party was supposed to have a short life when it was created after the failure of the Meech Lake agreement. The founder, Lucien Bouchard, declared at that time that the success of the BQ would be measured by "the brevity of its [...]
On this past June 10 former Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark was marshal for the "gay pride" parade in Calgary, Alberta. On being contacted by the organizers he doubtless consulted his agenda, discovered that his "dance card" was open on that date and the rest is history. As to why Mr. Clark was there is anybody's guess, but my best guess is [...]
Education tax credit a step in the right direction On May 9, Ontario Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced the province would phase in a tax credit program that will give parents a tax credit of up to one half of independent school tuition (up to a maximum of $3,500). Both proponents of educational choice and advocates of denominational school funding applauded the [...]
Official delegate admits 'reproductive services' include abortion A Canadian delegate at the recent PrepCom leading up to September's Child Summit astonished pro-family advocates and social leftists alike when he acknowledged publicly that the euphemism "reproductive health services" means abortion. He added that it may not refer to abortion in the minds of other delegates, but it does when Canadian delegates to United [...]
Pro-family groups have criticized Alberta Premier Ralph Klein's failure to keep his promise of erecting "fences" to protect marriage and the family. Following the 1998 Vriend decision in which the Supreme Court of Canada forced the province to include sexual orientation as a protected class under its human rights legislation, Klein promised to put up "fences" around other legislation in order to [...]
Federal Health Minister Allan Rock appeared before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health May 3 to introduce a draft of a long-awaited bill on new reproductive and genetic technologies. While the draft legislation is commendable for its ban on all forms of human cloning, it is nonetheless fundamentally flawed, since it would allow for experimentation on human embryos up to [...]
Good for Deputy Speaker of the Nova Scotia Legislature, Brooke Taylor, one of the few elected representatives in Canada with the vision to recognize the socially destructive fatuousness of political correctness, and the guts to challenge it in public. Commenting on a House committee's decision to reaffirm the traditional recitation of the Lord's Prayer at the beginning of Legislature sessions, Taylor said [...]
On March 22, Garry Breitkreuz became the latest MP to provide federal pro-life legislators the opportunity to keep the abortion issue before the consciences of those on Parliament Hill. His motion, urging the feds to redefine "human being" in the Criminal Code to include unborn babies, was addressed several weeks ago by several MPs, even though it had previously been declared "non-votable" [...]
For the first time in what seems like forever, the news coming out of the United Nations is not all bad from a pro-family and pro-life perspective. Two recent conferences, although full of people advocating the expected feminist and pro-"reproductive health" agendas, also included some new advocates in favour of the family and sexual morality. Most notable in this respect has been [...]
Scholars analyze what's behind 'judicial activism' in Canada The Charter Revolution and the Court Party by F.L. Morton and Rainer Knopff (Broadview, $22.95, 227 pages). In recent years the critics of judicial activism have grown tremendously in number - theNational Post, the Canadian Alliance, various academics, pro-family and pro-life groups,The Interim - and with good reason: judicial activism is growing and consequently [...]
In the glorious People's Republic of British Columbia, the S.S. NDP has already hit the iceberg, and is sinking fast. But the Band plays on. Joy MacPhail introduced her 11-point master plan to keep the sinking ship afloat. But it seems to have had the opposite effect. The ship continues to sink. Promising more money for B.C.'s declining abortionists, she fails to [...]
There are some issues that rise above the inadequate and increasingly archaic labels of left and right - life and education being two of them. We have looked to various political parties for support and, whilst sometimes receiving encouraging words from some of them when in opposition, have invariably been ignored or even insulted once those organizations achieve power. When it comes [...]
The new liberalism cut itself off from universal principles and focused on choice itself Once upon a time, there was a parsimonious parson who, to save money, tried to brighten the exterior of his place of worship with watered down paint. After he finished his job and saw the paint cascading down the chapel walls, he called upon God for guidance. According [...]
Candidate questionnaires help identify social conservatives and pro-lifers in new legislature On March 12, Premier Ralph Klein's Tories streamrolled the NDP and Liberal opposition taking 74 of 83 seats in the Alberta provincial election. While social issues were not a factor in the election pro-life and social conservative groups were involved in the campaign, and active informing voters about the candidates. Campaign [...]