Campaign Life Coalition's Defund Abortion efforts kicked off in Newfoundland on the weekend and will launch in the capitals of Alberta, Manitoba, and Nova Scotia tomorrow (October 3). It will also continue in Ontario in the form of mini-protests at the constituency offices of more than 50 MPPs (find out where here by typing in your postal code). Organizers are encouraging a Tweet-a-thon: [...]
Patricia Maloney A pro-life blogger is taking the Ontario government to court after discovering it passed legislation allowing for abortion data to be kept secret. Patricia Maloney, the author of the Run with Life blog, submitted a Freedom of Information request in March 2012 for abortion statistics but was denied in March 2013 by the Ministry of Health. This was [...]
CTV reports that Conservative MP Merv Tweed (Brandon-Souris) will resign his seat at the end of the month. Campaign Life Coalition rates Tweed pro-life and according to the votes they track, has a 100% pro-life and pro-family voting record. There is no record of him leading on pro-life issues the way caucus colleagues Mark Warawa and Stephen Woodworth have, but he was a [...]
This morning we posted a press release from a blogger who is challenging in court the government's suppression of abortion information. Faye Sonier of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada has written an article about this and notes: In January 2012, the Ontario government quietly passed an amendment to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. As a result of the [...]
Earlier this week the Senate voted to pass Brian Storseth's C-304, an act to repeal Section 13 of the Human Rights Act. I'll let Brian Lilley of Sun News explain why this matters: This is the bill that repeals the dreaded section 13 of the human rights act. That’s the soon-to-be former law that made it an offence to post something online [...]
It is just over a month until the National March for Life in Ottawa (May 9). The theme this year is gendercide. The Interim and LifeSiteNews.com have both ran promotional stories. In light of the political maneuvering that took place in recent weeks to scuttle Mark Warawa's private member's motion (M408) and the political fallout, it might seem that a rally and march tied [...]
Conservative MP Jay Aspin (Nipissing -- Timiskaming) says that his colleague Mark Warawa (Langley) is a "rogue" for bringing up abortion. Last week a parliamentary subcommittee ruled that Warawa's private member's motion, M-408, which would express disapproval of the practice of sex-selective abortion and gendercide, was non-votable. Warawa has been vocal about the decision and the Conservative party's attempt to prevent him from [...]
Here is what Interim editor Paul Tuns wrote at his blog Sobering Thoughts earlier today: Great point made by Campaign Life Coalition's Jack Fonseca: "Eliminating taxpayer funding for abortions that are not medically necessary is a political position that’s more popular amongst Ontarians than is the Liberal Party, the NDP or Tim Hudak’s PCs. So says a recent AngusReid opinion poll." Now that's because a [...]
Stephen Woodworth. An obvious choice. It is the only second time The Interim has named a Person of the Year since I've become editor in 2001. The first? Ezra Levant in 2008 when he took on the human rights commission industry.
Because they tell us a lot about her critics. A great column by the Toronto Sun's Lorrie Goldstein which begins: The ferocity of the attack on Status of Women Minister Rona Ambrose for voting in favour of a Conservative MP’s motion to study the question of when human life legally begins is not only absurd, it says a lot about the attackers. [...]
The Globe and Mail reports on the introduction of a bill on sex-selective abortions: A second abortion-related motion proposed by a backbench Conservative MP could trigger a new debate about the parameters of a woman’s right to choose in Canada. Andrea Mrozek responds: The debate is here. It has not been triggered anew, it is simply here. For many of us, it’s [...]
The pro-abortion Radical Handmaids have invited people to join them for a M-312 Debate Viewing Party which includes a drinking game for watching the parliamentary debate. Note that the party is at the Canadian Union of Postal Workers boardroom at their offices in downtown Ottawa. M-312 is not "anti-choice" as the Radical Handmaids contend. M-312 does not mention abortion. It does not mention [...]
Yesterday I noted a new EFC report and recent Claire Hoy column about the Ontario government now refusing to release abortion statistics (under the guise of transparency and accountability -- how Orwellian). Suzanne Fortin at Big Blue Wave has two comments about this topic. I've said it before and I'll say it again: people who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. Good [...]
Today is the first anniversary of Jack Layton's death and the NDP and left-wing media are milking it to promote his example of tirelessly working to advance the socialist agenda. Of course, that's not how they put it, but that's the point. The average person didn't understand that "Jack" wasn't all about smiles, but rather socialism. To correct the sycophancy of the [...]
I was going to make this point but Campaign Life Coalition's Matthew Wojciechowski beat me to it: Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he will follow the science only when its convenient. Here's Harper on the Northern Gateway pipeline: “The only way that governments can handle controversial projects of this manner is to ensure that things are evaluated on an independent basis scientifically, and [...]