How many of you have become frustrated because all your work to influence Canadian governments to apply civilized morality in their legislative work seems to fall on deaf ears? I hope I'm not the only one who feels that way sometimes. I'm supposed to encourage you to keep up the good fight because our work ultimately will not be in vain. But [...]
Recently, a Winnipeg photographer, Garry Geisel, was charged under the child pornography law with possessing pictures of naked girls. Geisel defends himself by arguing that the law is inconsistent. It says 14-year-old girls can legally have sex with adults but they have to be 18 or older to pose nude. The current age of consent law is being used in the defence [...]
There is a politician at Queen's Park whom they say has never let a pork barrel pass him by in his life. But it is not just politicians who have their arms deep into the pork barrel - they are joined by lawyers and recently retired Queen's Park bureaucrats who are now slobbering consultants. Last of all, but not least, are hungry [...]
Can anything stop Rev. Ken Campbell on his mission to put God back in the public schools, and restore the historic theistic principles that made Canada great? Certainly not prostate cancer! Who else but Ken Campbell - aware of his condition - would take a Paul Revere-like solo 16-day, 5000-mile foray to Saskatchewan during the September provincial election to take on seemingly [...]
On Oct. 13, Reform Party leader Preston Manning delivered perhaps the most compelling and passionate speech on moral issues that the House of Commons has heard in a long time. Responding to the Throne Speech delivered by the Governor-General the previous day, the Leader of the Opposition made a commitment to both economic and moral conservatism in a 100-minute speech, which included [...]
New health minister said to be pro-life On Sept. 21, nearly 12 years of Tory rule in Manitoba came to an end as the NDP won a majority government. Under leader Gary Doer, the NDP captured 32 of 57 seats (the Tories won 24 and the Liberals just one). Like the NDP across the country, is a solidly pro-abortion party. But as [...]
We didn't win the prize," said Saskatchewan Party leader Elwin Hermanson, "but we sure surprised the winners." That statement pretty well sums up the mood of Saskatchewan Party members after the September 16 provincial election. While polls, pundits and the media loudly proclaimed the inevitability of another majority NDP government, the people of this province spoke even louder. Premier Roy Romanow's predicted [...]
MP Eric Lowther encourages social conservatives to get involved in the political process Canadian pro-life and pro-family advocates, discouraged by how politicians at the federal level are for the most part ignoring their input, could take some heart following the Reform party's caucus meeting in Toronto on Sept. 17. Apart from a commitment from leader Preston Manning to make the strengthening of [...]
Memo targeting certain Reform Mps is not an attempt to purge the movement of pro-lifers A well-publicized memo by a top-level Reform Party strategist has some worried that the United Alternative is trying to push out moral conservatives. Rick Anderson, campaign director for the Reform Party of Canada, wrote a memo identifying 20 Reform MPs whom the party should be ready to [...]
A cartoon in the July 30 edition of the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix depicts a classroom of multi-cultural students. On the blackboard is written: "Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is not in Saskatoon." In response to complaints from some parents that their children were forced to endure the "whims" [...]
Pro-lifers, however, have little reason to celebrate Tory victory The summer Nova Scotia election gave pro-life, pro-family voters little to cheer about, other than that the solidly pro-abortion, pro-homosexualist NDP did not win, and in fact lost seven seats and barely held on to their official opposition status (subject to several recounts). Naturally, the media leftists were disappointed, but declared this mediocre [...]
As reported briefly in the last issue of The Interim, Saskatchewan MP Maurice Vellacott (Reform, Wanuskewin) gathered the 100 signatures that he needed from members of Parliament to push his "conscience clause" bill forward for debate in the House of Commons. As many pro-lifers already know, Mr. Vellacott has taken up the fight to protect the education and employment of health care workers [...]
At the beginning of this century, Canada was mainly an agricultural society, safely cradled in the arms of the mother country, Britain. A call to arms to protect Britain's interests in the Boer War in South Africa (1899 - 1902) and the Great War (1914-1918) led to shiploads of Canadian troops gallantly crossing the ocean to her defense. (The province of Québec, [...]
They say that some of the best confidence men in the world are not in jail but can be found in the editorial offices of the biggest newspapers in Canada. And if they can't be found there, they can be found in the backrooms of political think-tanks when an election is brewing. These con-men are so adept at wrestling truth to the [...]
Family Coalition Party candidates always face uphill battles during elections, considering their "minor" party status. Unfortunately, many also face the animus of pro-abortion politicians, events organizers, and media.For example, organizers at several all-candidates meetings tried to exclude Bill Whatcott, the FCP candidate in Toronto-Centre Rosedale, from taking part in debates. Leaders of the debate at "the 519," a taxpayer-funded gay community centre, [...]