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Written on 10 May, 2010 at 11:25 in
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Commentary Donald DeMarco Life is not like a baseball game with clear, clean lines
The brief interim between the end of batting practice and the commencement of the game invites a moment of reflection when the spectator can look at the field of play while it is devoid of players. In this meditative moment, undistracted by the game, one can begin to appreciate the significance of the foul lines. They begin at “home” and extend out to infinity, as they embrace the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 7 May, 2010 at 7:07 in
Abortion Law, Announcements, Features | Author:
Paul Tuns Editor
On April 14, Rod Bruinooge (C - Winnipeg South) tabled Bill C-510, a private member’s bill to amend the Criminal Code of Canada to outlaw coercing women into having an abortion.
Bruinooge, the chair of the Parliamentary Pro-Life Caucus, in introducing An Act to Prevent the Coercion of Women to Abortion to the House of Commons, said, “This bill will protect vulnerable pregnant women.”
He is calling the bill “Roxanne’s Law” in recognition of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 May, 2010 at 7:06 in
Announcements, Features | Author:
Paul Tuns Editor
Pro-life Conservative MP Peter Goldring (Edmonton East) told The Interim he was furious at being misled about the nature of a parliamentarians’ association he agreed to become a vice-chair for after it was presented to him as a group dedicated to population and development issues, but which turned out to be focused narrowly on abortion and contraception.
On March 22, just weeks after being elected to become the vice-chair of the Canadian Association ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Apr, 2010 at 12:05 in
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This May, thousands of Canadians will attend the annual National March for Life and numerous provincial marches for life. They will come from every part of the country and they will be members of every race and religion. They will come, rain or shine, to our federal and provincial capitals and will witness to the sanctity of all human life. But what good is such a witness? Why, for a 13th ... (Continue reading)
Written on 15 Apr, 2010 at 13:35 in
Announcements, Features, Society & Culture | Author:
Pauline Kosalka As legal gambling becomes widespread,
dangerous addictions grow
Gambling has become a widespread practice in Canadian life. It may be found in the form of state-managed lotteries, casinos and even charity raffles. Every province in Canada holds a near-monopoly over the gaming industry. Lotteries, horse racing, charitable gaming, casinos, slot machines, video lottery terminals and internet gambling are all somewhere in Canada, though some provinces limit or prohibit certain kinds of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 7 Apr, 2010 at 6:46 in
Announcements, Features, Issues, Youth Activism | Author:
Dan Di Rocco ‘The culture of death is all-pervasive’
For nine years, The Interim and Niagara Region Right to Life have been co-sponsoring the Father Ted Colleton Scholarship program. The topics have varied over the years, but they have always challenged students to think more deeply about pro-life issues and to write about them cogently. The prizes are awarded following an evaluation process conducted by a committee that assesses the essay-writing ... (Continue reading)
Written on 1 Apr, 2010 at 13:26 in
Abortion Law, Announcements, Features, Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns Editor On March 23, as The Interim went to press, Canada’s opposition parties sought to require the Conservative government to fund abortion as part of their maternal and child health initiative at the G8 summit this June. Liberal foreign affairs critic Bob Rae tabled a motion that would require “the maternal and child health initiative for the world’s poorest regions” to “include the full range of family planning, sexual and reproductive health ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Mar, 2010 at 18:08 in
Announcements, Features, Pro-Life | Author:
Allison Kach
The Holy Land. The nation of Israel. The physical place where God put on flesh in his mother’s womb, lived among men and completed the necessary sacrifice for our reconciliation with himself for eternity. Since the time of Moses, the enemy of life and family, the enemy of our souls, has been attempting to snuff out the lives of Hebrew children through abortion and infanticide.
In present-day Israel, this assault on the lives ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Mar, 2010 at 9:15 in
Announcements, Features, Profiles | Author:
Pauline Kosalka
On Jan. 25, 2010, pro-life activist Lila Rose gave a rousing speech to the San Francisco Walk for Life, which drew a crowd of 35,000 participants. “Let us be the ones who with grace, who with humility and who with joy stand up and say enough is enough. We will see every person in America protected by law, by love, protected by choices. Even the smallest in our country will be protected,” ... (Continue reading)
Written on 2 Mar, 2010 at 7:52 in
Announcements, Features, Politics | Author:
Analysis by Paul Tuns Editor
Ignatieff pushes abortion as
Harper calls for G8 to help world’s poorest
The numbers are staggering. A half-million women die during pregnancy every year. Nine million children in the developing world will die before their fifth birthday. That’s one pregnant mother and 18 children every minute of every day of the year will die prematurely, unnecessarily. Their dire circumstances cry out for redress, but thus far, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 8 Feb, 2010 at 5:31 in
Announcements, Cover stories, Euthanasia, Features | Author:
Alex Schadenberg Where are we now? Where do we go?
This article is written to establish the current concerns related to the issues of euthanasia and assisted suicide and the direction in which we must turn in order to reverse the trend toward giving physicians the right to intentionally and directly cause the deaths of their patients.
In Canada, the debate surrounding euthanasia and assisted suicide has been growing ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jan, 2010 at 15:44 in
Announcements, Features, Politics, Real Women | Author:
Paul Tuns Editor Former Planned Parenthood loses 99 per cent of federal funding
An Interim investigation has found that over the past half decade, the Canadian Federation for Sexual Health has had its federal government grants cut by more than 99 per cent.
The federation, formerly the Planned Parenthood Federation of Canada and still the Canadian member of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, has charitable status, according to the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 11 Jan, 2010 at 15:39 in
Announcements, Cover stories, Features, Population | Author:
Paul Tuns
Green activists promote one-child policy,
contraception as keys to save planet
The National Post’s Diane Francis promoted the idea of a global one-child policy in her Dec. 8, column. The article ran at the beginning of the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, and in it Francis, the editor-at-large of the Post’s Financial Post section, said the real environmental issue is not global warming but overpopulation. Her ... (Continue reading)
10. Quebec gives special rights to abortion mills
In the spring, the Quebec National Assembly passed new safety and hygiene regulations for all health care facilities in the province. In August, abortion mills and supporters were lobbying to have offices and facilities that provide abortions exempted from the regulations and two of them threatened to close or stop committing abortion procedures if they had to abide by the health and safety changes. Health Minister Yves Bolduc capitulated after pressure ... (Continue reading)
Written on 7 Dec, 2009 at 8:58 in
Announcements, Book Review, Cover stories, Features | Author:
Review by Oswald Clark As I See It by Michael Coren (Freedom Press, $21.95 paperback, 306 pages)
When I went to university in the United States, I stopped following Canadian news, but I did continue reading a few Canadian columnists on the internet. One of those columnists was Michael Coren. There are many reasons why I should not have read him. He supports more government intervention than I, an economist, would like. He has what ... (Continue reading)
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