Stephen Woodworth's motion (M-312) calling upon Parliament to examine when human life begins and what consequences that finding might have for Canadian law is set for the first hour of debate today. We wrote about M-312 in the April issue of The Interim and editorialized about Woodworth's audacious effort in February. (You can find all our coverage of Stephen Woodworth's motion here.) The opposition has gone [...]
Catholic Missions of Canada is an Interim advertiser. We are a pro-life paper and they are a Catholic charity so while we have slightly have different missions, so to speak, but we are very supportive of one another because in the Grand Scheme of things, we are on the same page. As a Catholic I appreciate the work CMC does bringing the Good News [...]
This editorial appears in the forthcoming edition of the print version of The Interim: The Alberta Tories’ 41-year reign appeared to be coming to an end with the April 24 election (held after we went to press). The upstart and more conservative Wildrose Party was leading in the polls. While Wildrose is not a pro-life party, it did have numerous socially conservative [...]
Here is an interesting video of Ezra Levant talking to Russell Browne and Peter Boushy about the case of pro-life activist Mary Wagner and how the judge, Justice S. Ford Clements, told her "Your God is wrong." Boushy, who is leading the appeal, says the judge was excessive in sentencing Wagner to a punishment that was greater than the prosecutor and defense attorneys agreed [...]
A group of concerned parents and parental rights groups held a press conference at Queen's Park yesterday to discuss the Liberal government's Bill 13 (concerns about the bill were addressed on this blog yesterday). The Toronto Sun and Sun News were the only media to cover the event. The Toronto Sun reported: Kim Galvao, chair of Concerned Catholic Parents of Ontario, said people of [...]
Tomorrow (March 29) there will be a rally at Queen's Park to protest the Ontario Liberal government's Bill 13, the so-called anti-bullying bill that is a Trojan horse to normalize homosexuality and attack parental rights and religious freedom. It lasts from 2pm to 3pm so drop in and support the cause for at least some portion of it. In recent months, The Interim has [...]
We'll have our own take tomorrow on the Ontario Court of Appeal decision which appears to have legalized brothels but not solicitation. (The decision can be found here). Here's news coverage of the decision by justices Doherty, Rosenberg, and Feldman. Our coverage of the case early on in the process can be found here and here. Also, the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada responds. Below is a Christian Legal Fellowship press release [...]
In our forthcoming April issue we have a feature on religious freedom in Canada and Europe and an editorial on why the secular elite cannot tolerate Christianity. We'll have those stories online in a few weeks. Persecution comes in different forms and restrictions on the ability to live faith publicly very different than martyrdom, so we in the West should be thankful [...]
Jack Fonseca of Campaign Life Catholics draws on J.R.R. Tolkien to look at the anti-Catholic efforts of U.S. President Barack Obama and Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty. This is the key: "this subversion of Catholic rights threatens all people of faith." As Glenn Beck recently said, "we are all Catholics now." The state is greedy and cannot countenance an entity that challenges its authority as [...]
Great story from our March issue of the paper about Isabella Santorum. Rick Santorum's daughter has Trisomy 18 and is called a hero for surviving for so long after birth, but the real story is that her parents fought to keep her alive. Often hospitals and doctors will refuse to provide treatment for these babies when they are born. The Santorums made sure Bella was given [...]
Last Fall I spoke at a couple of Campaign Life Coalition regional conferences about the sources of media bias as it affects the abortion issue. Last month, The Interim reprinted that speech. The most important insight is that not all bias is ideological; sometimes reporters are just bad at doing their job and I identify the main reason for this problem is the fact [...]
Campaign Life Coalition officially launched its website "I am a human being" and issued this press release: Campaign Life Coalition today announces the launch of iamahumanbeing.ca. This new website is an educational tool that presents the scientific basis for why every human life should be protected from the time of conception to natural death. This new effort supports motion M-312, introduced by [...]
Check out the just-launched "I am a Human Being"website. The messaging of the website, of course, is "I am a human being and was a human being from the very beginning." It is relevant to the efforts of MP Stephen Woodworth to get a political discussion going that asks and answers the question "when does human life begin?" and examines the implications of modern [...]
Over at Every Day for Life, Lou Iacobelli has a very good post on Ontario's Bill 13, the so-called Accepting Schools Act. Put simply, Iacobelli says, "beyond the anti-bullying rhetoric, there's a political correctness LGBT agenda which the Bill is promoting." As we noted in our January editorial: Dr. Rondo Thomas of The Evangelical Association pointed out at the press conference that another [...]
Harley Price, an occasional Interim contributor, has an outstanding piece on his blog about free love. He notes that there is nothing "free" about modern libertinism: Free love has been free only in that its proponents and practitioners have gotten away with it, imposing upon everyone else the burden of paying its enormous social costs. But that’s how social democracy works. The [...]