For more than three decades, The Interim and Campaign Life Coalition have reminded readers and supporters of the responsibility of all citizens, but especially Christians, to prioritize life issues above all else when they vote. This is not to deny the importance of alleviating poverty, the ability of middle class couples to support their families, how to address crime, Canadian foreign policy, [...]
Since the federal election campaign began in early August, a variety of issues are being presented to the Canadian public in an effort to influence their vote. Assisted suicide is one topic that has not yet received the attention it deserves according to Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. Schadenberg told The Interim that his organization is “in a [...]
Winnipeg-South Conservative outed as pro-life The Canadian Press reported on Sept. 22 that Gordon Giesbrecht, the Conservative candidate in Winnipeg-South, posed an online video in 2009 comparing abortion to the Holocaust and 9/11. Giesbrecht, who was then president of Horizon College and Seminary in Saskatoon, said that the number of abortions committed globally “equals 9/11 every day” and that the annual abortion [...]
This list only includes candidates from the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC), Independents and the Christian Heritage Party. There are no supportable pro-life and pro-family candidates running for the Liberals or NDP parties, who require ALL candidates to support abortion-on-demand. See list HERE
Alissa Golob On March 13 Jonathon Van Maren, of the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform, and Alissa Golob, of Campaign Life Coalition, went on a cross-country speaking tour to promote their No2Trudeau campaign. The tour was designed to activate local pro-lifers to get involved in the distribution of one million postcards in 20 ridings across Canada which targeted Justin Trudeau [...]
Rod Taylor When the election writ was dropped, Christian Heritage Party leader Rod Taylor was running in the by-election in Ottawa West-Nepean. Taylor told The Interim in May that he chose not to run in Skeena-Bulkley Valley, where he ran three times before, so he could increase the CHP’s media exposure by running in a riding near the nation’s capital. [...]
Life issues ignored in 2015 campaign but election will still have impactOn August 2, Stephen Harper asked the Governor General to call the 42nd election campaign for Oct. 19, an 11-week campaign that is the country’s longest since the time John A. Macdonald ran for prime minister. After the Conservatives have been nearly a decade in government, the opposition leaders are making [...]
Monte McNaughton said that Patrick Brown shares his social conservative convictions, but also the best approach to party revitalization. While there was no risk of vote-splitting in the preferential ballot system, Monte McNaughton’s withdrawal leaves one social conservative in the Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership race. On April 9, with about a month left in the campaign to find a new [...]
MPP Monte McNaughton On April 21, MPP Monte McNaughton, a former leadership contender for the Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership, sat down and talked to The Interim about his future, and more importantly, the future of the PC Party. He stressed that Ontario does not need a “second Liberal Party” and said that only Patrick Brown can ensure that the Tories [...]
Justin Trudeau once said he could support Quebec separatism over abortion and same-sex 'marriage.' In 2011, the Liberal Party suffered their worst ever federal election result, dropping to third place with a mere 34 seats. Never before had the one-time Natural Governing Party been relegated to third party status, so Michael Ignatieff stepped down as leader the day after the [...]
On Nov, 6, and after a nasty campaign that seemed to last forever, President Barack Obama was re-elected, handily defeating his Republican challenger Mitt Romney, albeit by a narrower margin than he vanquished John McCain in 2008. Obama’s victory was puzzling to many on the Right and led to the inevitable soul-searching that follows any electoral defeat. The usual suspects blamed, among [...]
Polls show that Justin Trudeau, the 40-year-old second term Papineau MP and son of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau (whose 1969 Omnibus bill permitted widespread abortion in Canada), would instantly make the currently third-place Liberals serious contenders to win the 2015 election. Pro-life leaders think that development would be a disaster for Canada. Justin Trudeau’s rise has been a lifetime in the [...]
Every election is said to be the most important, but 2012 certainly will be one in which the outcome could significantly shift American economic and social policy, from government intrusion into the private economic and moral lives of citizens to the composition of the Supreme Court for the next two decades, and much more. A number of books have come out in [...]
Barack Obama In 1775, the famous aphorist, Samuel Johnson, quipped that “patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” His biographer, reporting this remark, quickly added that “he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak for self-interest.” Johnson’s observation, however, [...]
National Affairs Rory Leishman United States President Barack Obama is an astute political tactician. Unlike his secular advisors, he was quick to recognize that the deletion of any reference to God in the initial draft of the Democratic Party Platform was a political blunder. The great majority of Americans still regard themselves as Christians and expect their leaders to believe [...]