I'm not sure what our plan is when it comes to how extensively to cover the Elena Kagan confirmation hearings -- we are, after all, a Canadian publication, but with a largish American online readership. For now, read Ed Whelan's pair of posts (here and here) at Bench Memos on Kagan and her position on SSM and her apparent attempt to hide [...]
The Pocono Record reports that a 31-year-old Pennsylvania man, Michael James Lisk, had a long-term sexual relationship with a 13-year-old girl who subsequently became pregnant, aborted her own child with a pencil, and had Lisk help dispose of the remains of the aborted child. The paper reports: Still sick on Sunday, the girl went with her mother to Lehigh Valley Hospital. Staff in the Pediatric Intensive [...]
Because it will expose their lie that there is a consensus on the issue. Margaret Somerville explains in a Montreal Gazette column: The likely possibility is, however, that pro-choice advocates and politicians will continue to argue there is no need for a debate. But if the consensus they claim does exist, they have nothing to fear. And if it does not, then [...]
My review of Marci McDonald's much talked about The Armageddon Factor is now online. I could have gone in greater detail about the errors, engaged her dishonest and hysterical argument, or used the book as a springboard to jump into the broader topic of the Religious Right in Canada, but alas a newspaper has word counts and space limitations, so I used the review to [...]
Dr. Hedy Fry, a Liberal MP and big-time supporter of abortion, refuses to debate former patient and pro-life advocate Stephanie Gray. Kelly McParland covers it here at National Post and there is a YouTube video Fry getting a staffer to return Gray's call to say that she won't be debating a non-MP: Hedy Fry ducks abortion debate.
There is a pretty lame article on Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Chief of Staff Guy Giorno in the current Maclean's but this paragraph is worth noting: Perhaps more than any issue that’s arisen in Giorno’s nearly two years as Harper’s top adviser, outlawing overseas abortion funding threatens to drag him unwillingly toward the centre of media attention. (Giorno declined to be interviewed for [...]
LifeSiteNews talked to Campaigne Quebec Vie's Georges Buscemi about the province's National Assembly recent unanimous 109-0 vote re-affirming “the right of women to free choice and to free and accessible abortion services”: While 16 members of the National Assembly were not present, Buscemi said the vote is “definitely” a sign that there are no politicians in the Quebec legislature that the pro-life movement [...]
LifeSiteNews.com has the story about Ozzy Osbourne singing about Robert Latimer's 1993 murder of his daughter, Tracey Latimer, who had cerebral palsy. LSN reports: "To put your child to death is a big decision. I'm not one to go, 'You're wrong, you shouldn't do that,' or 'You did the right thing,'" Osbourne told a CanWest reporter during a news conference. So the rocker isn't [...]
Ezra Levant has an excellent post on BQ leader Gilles Duceppe's bigoted, anti-Catholic attacks on the involvement of a particular Catholic group (Opus Dei) in politics, all of which smells, sounds and looks like McCarthyism.
Marci McDonald was on TVO's The Agenda last night and she said her goal for her new book was to initiate a discussion on how much religiosity we should have in the public square. For many on the Left and some libertarians, the answer to that discussion is none. Hugh MacIntyre is a libertarian blogger at The Shotgun and he has what should [...]
Jay Currie has a postthat notes that Section 13 of Canada's Human Rights Act is effectively suspended because one of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal's members, Edward Lustig, refuses to hear Section 13 cases any more, at least until the Federal Court has rendered its decision in Warman v. Lemire. This is the latest victory for free speech. Kathy Shaidle has thoughts on this too.
In my post yesterday, I explained that I didn't engage Marci McDonald's argument about Stephen Harper's alignment with social conservatives in my review because of a lack of space in the June issue of the paper. So I'll do it a little bit here. First, I want to highlight a National Post column from last week by Gerry Nicholls in which the former [...]
Yesterday, Quebec City Cardinal Marc Ouellet and Ottawa Archbishop Terrence Prendergast spoke out against abortion yesterday in a 41-minute press conference. You can view the entire press conference here . They 1) said if Canada does not fund abortions abroad they should seriously consider defunding abortion at home, 2) called upon Canada to have an open and honest abortion debate, 3) described abortion a serious violation of [...]
Lilit Marcus at The Gloss on the Duggars, who, Marcus says, challenges her pro-choice beliefs: As a pro-choice woman, Michelle Duggar is the absolute test of my beliefs. I believe that choice means a woman can have kids or not have kids as she wants to, and that she should be able to control the size of her family as she sees [...]
Jill Stanek reports that the Rock for Life and American Life League seems to have parted ways, but the good news is that RFL is still operating. There is often a lot of internecine fighting within the pro-life movement and there seems to be a legitimate quarrel over who has the right to use the Rock for Life brand, but in this case [...]