Articles from 2012
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Written on 22 May, 2012 at 10:39 in
Soconvivium | Author:
Interim Staff Campaign Life Coalition has a short video interview with CLC national president Jim Hughes in which he reflects on the National March for Life, especially the presence and influence of the large number of youth at the event. (Continue reading)
Written on 18 May, 2012 at 9:51 in
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Paul Tuns Kathy Shaidles talks with Brian Lilley on Sun News about the human rights commission industry and the hierarchy of official victims (whites and Christians at the bottom). Well worth the nine minutes it takes to watch. They also talk about Catholic schools being bullied into accepting gay-straight alliances and Shaidle says that "next week it will be some new thing" because to keep the HRC industry relevant, there must always be some new thing. (Continue reading)
Written on 17 May, 2012 at 12:44 in
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Paul Tuns An excellent column by the Ottawa Citizen's David Warren on the lack of abortion debate and how impossible it is to have a discussion on this matter, mostly due to the hysterical reaction of those on the pro-abortion side. Warren says:
There is no avoiding the issue, except through suppression. The pretence that the commission of an abortion is “a moral decision” in which “the conscience of the individual must be paramount and take precedence over that of the state” ... (Continue reading)
Written on 15 May, 2012 at 10:54 in
Euthanasia | Author:
Paul Tuns
The Select Committee on Dying with Dignity Committee, commissioned by the Quebec National Assembly to study euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, released it’s report, “Dying with Dignity,” on March 22. The committee called for the province to legalize euthanasia, suggesting modest restrictions that anti-euthanasia groups say do nothing to protect the vulnerable.
Ignoring federal Criminal Code prohibitions on euthanasia and assisted-suicide, Dying with Dignity states that not only should Ottawa amend the Criminal ... (Continue reading)
Written on 15 May, 2012 at 10:50 in
Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns On March 26, the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld most of a 2010 Ontario Superior Court decision that struck down restrictions on prostitution. In 2010, Judge Susan G. Himel ruled that the provisions of the Criminal Code that restricted abortion – prohibitions on keeping a common bawdy-house (brothel), living off the avails of prostitution, and communicating for the purpose of prostitution in public. At a time when the Robert Picton case (a ... (Continue reading)
Written on 15 May, 2012 at 10:47 in
Euthanasia | Author:
Alex Schadenberg Special to The Interim The Select Committee on Dying with Dignity Committee in Quebec released its report today recommending that Quebec ignore the federal law that protects all Canadians, by legalizing euthanasia according to the Belgian model. The report defies Parliament’s overwhelming defeat of a similar bill to legalize euthanasia by a margin of 228 to 59, after a full-debate and across party lines. The report does not adequately address concerns related to elder abuse, suicide ... (Continue reading)
Written on 15 May, 2012 at 10:39 in
Announcements, Editorials, Features, Politics | Author:
On March 26, the Ontario Court of Appeals upheld a perverse 2010 decision which ruled that the Criminal Code’s laws prohibiting keeping a common bawdy house and communicating for the purpose of soliciting prostitution violated Section 7 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Without a thought for the victims of prostitution, the lower court struck down these prudent legal protections on the grounds that they violated the “security of the ... (Continue reading)
What is the proper role of a judge in a constitutional democracy? Prior to the 1970s, there was no dispute over this issue within the legal professions of Canada and the United States: Almost all lawyers, law professors and judges agreed that, in essence, a judge should interpret and apply established legal principles, while respecting the exclusive authority of elected representatives of the people in the legislative branch of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 15 May, 2012 at 10:27 in
Announcements, Book Review, Columnist, Features, Michael Coren | Author:
Michael Coren I’ve argued many times that the pro-life position is not essentially Christian, but an argument based on indisputable scientific truths and universal logic. The reason Christians are so enraged by the slaughter of the innocents, and so active in the campaign to end it, is that Christianity is God-given, that God created us, and thus as Christians we are especially and particularly attuned to the suffering of the most vulnerable. It’s ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 May, 2012 at 10:31 in
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Interim Staff Lou Iacobelli at Everyday for Life Canada has some thoughts on last week's record-breaking National March for Life. Dunn Media has a short video that captures the March, both on Parliament Hill and in the streets. We'll have extensive coverage of the March in the forthcoming June edition of the paper. (Continue reading)
Written on 9 May, 2012 at 12:46 in
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Paul Tuns The Toronto Star took notice of the growing number of young people involved in the pro-life cause with a front-page article in today's paper. Good for them. The article is fair and balanced, but there is a factual problem with the second paragraph:
Pro-lifers will rally on Parliament Hill by the thousands Thursday for the March for Life, an ever-growing annual rally attended by, yes, older activists, but also increasingly by hordes of fresh-faced young people snapping photos, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 7 May, 2012 at 15:00 in
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Paul Tuns The media and Liberal Party partied like it was 1982 and wondered why not everyone wanted to join them. But as pro-lifers warned in the negotiations leading up to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, it has been a flawed document, divisive and undemocratic. Worst of all, for all the trumpeting of its protection of individual rights, it does nothing to protect the most precious and important right – the right to life.... (Continue reading)
Written on 7 May, 2012 at 14:49 in
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Paul Tuns Between 1500 and 2000 concerned parents and taxpayers turned out for a hastily organized protest at Queen’s Park to call upon the McGuinty government to drop its so-called Safe Schools Act, calling the supposedly anti-bullying bill a Trojan horse to introduce gay activism into the schools and undermine parents as the primary educator of their children when it comes to matters of faith and morals.
Although the focus of Bill 13 has been ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Apr, 2012 at 13:08 in
Pro-Life, Society & Culture | Author:
Steve Jalsevac Special to The Interim
On Feb. 15 of last year LifeSiteNews announced, much to the shock of our readers, that LifeSiteNews and five of its staff are the subject of a $500,000 lawsuit from a self-professed ‘pro-choice’ Quebec Catholic priest, Fr. Raymond Gravel.
Fr. Gravel, a former Member of Parliament, who was forced by the Vatican to leave politics, argued that LifeSiteNews’ coverage of some of his more controversial public statements amounted to “libel.” He was ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Apr, 2012 at 13:03 in
Defund Abortion | Author:
Interim Staff Campaigns to defund abortion launched in Alberta, Saskatchewan
Last October following a successful Defund Abortion Rally at Queen’s Park, Campaign Life Coalition Youth announced a petition campaign with the goal of submitting 10,000 signatures of Ontario residents opposed to the $30-50 million (minimum) abortion costs the provinces taxpayers annually. In early March, CLC Youth co-ordinator Alissa Golob announced the campaign had garnered more than 20,000 signatures from almost every riding in the province – even as petitions ... (Continue reading)
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