I have noted contributor Harley Price's blog running commentary about The Atheist Delusion in past posts. I want to draw your attention to part three of his series. Samples from his latest critique of Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins: Dawkins is already a post-speciesist, of course. He really does regard the killing of a baby in the womb as ontologically and morally indistinguishable from the killing of [...]
One week from now the Building a Global Culture of Life conference in Ottawa will be winding down. Here is the conference schedule. You can register here. The hotel where the conference is being held (Hampton Inn Hotel and Conference Centre) is all booked, but the Chimo Hotel is just a five-minute drive from the conference centre and they have a few [...]
WorldNetDaily reports: Nearly 70 years after being molested repeatedly by her own father, "Esther White" (a pseudonym) is speaking out in hope of prompting Congress to investigate the controversial research. White said she would be willing to testify in person on Capitol Hill if an investigation results in opening the Kinsey Institute files to public scrutiny. When his "research" wasn't actually threatening [...]
Andrea Mrozek in C2C Journal on the impending full decriminalization of prostitution: While honest citizens must protest the current situation — minors and trafficked women in “massage parlours” — it is just as important to protest the pending complete decriminalization. Greater freedom will not be the outcome. Rather, those fighting for good in our country will have fewer tools at their disposal, [...]
Next week is the international pro-life conference in Ottawa (October 28-30). Two of the feature speakers, Dr. Jack Willke and John Smeaton, have more than three-quarters of a century experience between the pair of them. We write about them in the October Interim. On October 30, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is having a fundraising dinner to honour Ezra Levant and [...]
Article from the October edition is now online: "What is the government’s position on funding foreign abortion?" Here's the bottom line from that article: The government has failed to clearly articulate what it is up to: is there abortion funding through CIDA or third parties that is not included in its maternal health initiative? While the government has resisted pressure to include [...]
Writing about the pro-life students are Carleton University who were arrested for taking part in the Genocide Awareness Project, Michael Coren says in the forthcoming (November) Interim which goes to press later this week: If anybody walking past the display didn’t agree with it they only had to do what social conservatives have been told to do for decades every time they complain about [...]
Lawyer John Carpay in the Calgary Herald on the free speech battle of pro-lifers at the University of Calgary on an important and overlooked aspect of this issue: the status of the university as a public institution: The U of C tells Alberta taxpayers that it is "a place of education and scholarly inquiry" with a mission "to seek truth and disseminate [...]
A great story about Father Simon Lobo, brother of Ruth Lobo who was among five students arrested two weeks ago for peaceful pro-life witnessing at Carleton University in Ottawa. Says Fr. Lobo: "I can’t be a moderate pro-lifer any longer. It’s become something that’s drawing the line in the sand for a lot of people." Being moderate means tolerating the assault on the liberty of [...]
Barbara Boxer plays the abortion card in the California Senate race.
I am entirely unimpressed by the choices that NARAL Pro-Choice America is giving people for their 2010 pro-choice slogan contest for stickers to be distributed at the Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert rallies on October 30. These are the five finalists: Vote Pro-Choice. Politicians Make Crappy Doctors. Restore Sanity: Vote Pro-Choice! Just Another Sane, Pro-Choice Voter. Sanity is Voting Pro-Choice! Pro-Choice is the Sane Choice [...]
The Halifax Herald reports that the Nova Scotia government of NDP Premier Darrell Dexter has said the province will not get into the business of online gambling. However, the argument he makes against expanding government-run gambling is really an argument against government making gambling available anywhere: gambling can be harmful and therefore the province should not be in the business of making gambling easier. But the [...]
The Building a Global Culture of Life international conference in Ottawa begins in two weeks. LifeSiteNews.com has a story about it here. Speakers include Dr. Jack Willke, Michael O'Brien and Lia Mills, who made a splash on YouTube as a pre-teen. Register for the conference here.
Dianne Wood reminds us why municipal elections -- mayor, city council and (although she doesn't mention them) school boards -- are worth paying attention to and demanding that elected representatives even at that level (perhaps especially at that level) need to have a good moral compass. On a purely pragmatic level, municipal politics is often the minor league training ground for provincial and federal [...]
The latest news on the decriminalization of prostitution in Canada: sex trade workers in British Columbia are, like their counterparts in Ontario, challenging the restrictions on their trade. In Ontario, the decision has been stayed for four months while the appeal is heard. For a good review of the legal issues in Bredford v. Canada,see Umair Abdul's October 12 post at TheCourt.ca; although [...]