Maclean's does, you know, actual journalism and debunks the million attendance figure for Toronto's annual Pride Parade: One million, eh? Really? That’s about one-fifth of the population of the Greater Toronto Area crammed into a 2-km parade route through downtown city streets. The letter writer, Steven Murray of Victoria, BC, whose math is undoubtedly better than mine, points out that this is [...]
Expect to hear a lot of the term gendercide in the next while, in part because of Mara Hvistendahl's new book, Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, And The Consequences Of A World Full Of Men. The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada has released a discussion paper on the topic. The subject is finally getting some much-needed and overdue attention. As always, Mark Steyn sums up [...]
One of two main stories from the July issue focuses on the disappearance of the pro-life Liberal and how it affects both the Liberal Party and the pro-life movement.
Samara is having a contest for the best political book in Canada over the past 25 years and Ezra Levant's Shakedown: How Our Government is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights is nominated. Levant's book and personal ordeal dealing with the human rights commission industry in Canada has done more than anything or anyone to highlight the threat to personal liberty inherent [...]
Radio personality and Toronto Sun columnist Jerry Agar writes about the issue most commentators have danced around: the Gay Pride Parade features elements that the mayor of the city of Toronto (or any mayor) might not want to be involved with: Are the streets of the city an appropriate place for public nudity and for throwing condoms to kids in the crowd? Portions of [...]
In his Sun column Warren Kinsella claims that up to 15% of the population is homosexual. Kathy Shaidle critiques the column. She does a great job explaining why Kinsella is wrong, but we should understand where Kinsella is coming from. It is possible, I suppose, that Warren Kinsella's Toronto is 15% gay -- downtown TO and Liberal circles are disproportionately populated by homosexuals and gay-friendly straights [...]
Rory Leishman in the June issue of The Interim on Ontario's schools, the power of teachers' unions, and a lesson from the United Kingdom: The teachers’ unions prefer Liberals and New Democrats who promise to augment the huge increases in spending lavished on the province’s under-performing public and Catholic school systems over the past eight years of Liberal rule. Bottom line: the [...]
Toronto mayor Rob Ford said he would not take part in the Pride Parade festivities, nor will he be present next Tuesday for the rainbow flag raising at city hall. Instead of taking part in the Pride Parade, Ford said he would do what he does every Canada Day weekend and head to the family cottage in Muskoka. This should not be controversial, [...]
Interim Amusements columnist Rick McGinnis examines the HBO series Game of Thrones in the June issue. McGinnis says: [A]ny Christian knows that, flowing above history’s battlefields are the clouds and sky of our moral striving, constantly inspiring us to look above the wreckage and failure. The world of Game Of Thrones is intent on the battlefield and its carnage, and while it [...]
Sun TV star Brian Lilley is the banquet speaker for this weekend's Pro-Life Forum. You can attend the banquet Friday night separate from the Forum that takes place Saturday. Info is here. This is a last call because organizers need to finalize banquet numbers. Call the number in the ad Wednesday or Thursday to attend. If you can't make it, please consider a donation [...]
Mercatornet has a good article by Peter Saunders who declares himself homosceptical -- skeptical of the claims made by the gay rights lobby to normalize their lifestyle. A great term to replace the grammatically illogical homophobic.
From the June issue: "The importance of fathers." The bottom line: both parents are necessary.
Last year when Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper steadfastly refused to include abortion in his maternal health initiative he brought to the G8 summit Canada hosted in June, he was chastised for being out of step with international norms on acknowledging the supposed central importance of abortion in addressing maternal health and infant mortality. But according to the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion research outfit, abortion [...]
Information about Campaign Life Coalition's June 24-25 Toronto Forum featuring Brian Lilley as the banquet speaker can be found in this ad. The banquet speech by Lilley can be attended for just $75, but he is worth the price of admission for the full conference ($145).
Our June issue story and photos of the National March for Life in Ottawa.