Reflections on the pro-life legacy of former president George W. Bush
A look back at what President Bush did - and didn’t do - for pro-life.
Obama could bring ‘new world order’: Kissinger
Michael O'Brien warns about the wrong-headedness of a ‘New World Order'.
Two weeks that shook Canadian politics
Harper safe for now, Liberals get new pro-abortion leaders
Person of the Year Ezra Levant, foe of human rights commissions
Kathy Shaidle takes a look at Ezra Levant, a man who has valiantly fought for a proper understanding of human rights over the last year.
Exit polls, referenda show a nation divided on moral issues
Despite the resounding victory for Barack Obama and the Democrats on Nov. 4, the state-level referenda sent a mixed signal on whether the U.S. is moving left or right on social issues. While exit polls showed moral issues were less important than in other recent elections, about one-quarter to one-third still gave moral issues serious consideration when casting ballots for president, senator [...]
Tory grassroots back socon policies
A number of socially conservative resolutions were passed by the 2,000 delegates at the Conservative Party policy convention in Winnipeg, Nov. 14-16. More than 90 per cent of delegates voted for P-203, a resolution removing authority from the Canadian Human Rights Commission to regulate, investigate or adjudicate complaints related to Section 13(1), which governs hate complaints under the Canadian Human Rights Act [...]
Election results give pro-lifers hope
Pro-lifers probably have mixed feelings about the 2008 election. On the plus side, the pro-life contingent in Parliament is about the same. On the negative side, abortion was barely a topic in the election campaign and when it was brought up, the two major leaders said some disturbing things. When the final ballots were counted, the Conservatives failed to increase their 127-seat [...]
Election campaign was a bitter pill
Let us be frank: This year's federal election campaign marked another severe setback for the pro-life movement. The lowest point came on Sept. 29, when Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe reiterated the time-worn canard that the Harper Conservatives harbour a secret agenda. Specifically, he charged: "There is every reason to believe that a Harper majority government would reopen wide the [...]
A party in search of a soul
In the 1990s, Canada was ruled by the Liberal party that, despite the efforts of its many courageous pro-life members, actively promoted a radical social agenda. There was no real alternative to this party; the other side of the aisle was split between regional interests and Red Tories. Stephen Harper promised to "unite the right" and, although he showed no personal interest [...]
Party-versus-candidate
Some pro-lifers might think that a candidate belonging to a certain party is unworthy of support, even if that candidate has a solid pro-life record, because the party as a whole is anti-life. Well-deserved criticism of the Liberal and Tory records, for example, might lead people to dismiss individual candidates out of hand. It is important to remember, however, that in the [...]
Tories promote pro-family agenda
If you take away the life issues, the Conservative Party and its leader Stephen Harper is the clear choice for social conservative voters. While the Conservative government has actively avoided dealing with life issues, it has addressed other issues dear to social conservatives. The most significant was a signature item of their 2006 election platform: the Universal Childcare Plan that gives $100 [...]
CHP wants in on leader’s debate
The media consortium in charge of the leader’s debate has once again excluded Ron Gray, leader of the Christian Heritage Party (CHP), from the national leaders’ debates on October 1 and 2. The exclusion came after a major outcry forced Canada’s television networks to reverse their initial decision to exclude Green Party Leader Elizabeth May. Thus the leader of Canada’s fifth-largest political [...]
Ron Gray: one last campaign
This election will be Ron Gray?s last as leader of the Christian Heritage Party. After 13 years of leading Canada?s only pro-life federal political party, he is stepping down on Nov. 6 at the party?s national convention in London, Ont. The 75-year-old had already announced his intention to retire and called for a leadership race, when the Parliament dissolved and the Oct. [...]
Where is Canada’s Sarah Palin?
I was shocked, stunned, incredulous and totally off my rocker when I saw on CNN that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was John McCain’s choice as his Republican running mate. So was CNN. So was Senator Barack Obama. Largely unknown to Americans, even Obama on CNN said that he was surprised at the choice. Here was Palin, a stunningly beautiful former model, a [...]
Sarah Palin’s example
John McCain’s running mate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, has excited the conservative base of the Republican Party, just as much for who she is as what she believes in. Not only does she talk the pro-life talk, she walks it, too. Earlier this year, she gave birth to her fifth child, who was diagnosed in utero with Down’s Syndrome. More than four-in-five [...]