Announcements
Written on 15 Sep, 2011 at 9:23 in
Announcements, Features | Author:
Dan DiRocco
The Interim has been on the pro-life scene for more than 28 years. For 10 of those years the paper has partnered with Niagara Region Right to Life to sponsor a scholarship program for high school level students. Back in 2001 Fr. Ted Colleton was nearing the end of his 80-hour weeks serving the pro-life cause. He was not quite retired, but he would devote more time to praying for the cause ... (Continue reading)
Written on 7 Sep, 2011 at 7:33 in
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Mark Wegierski In Canada and the United States, Labour Day is celebrated as the holiday of workers, to avoid the radical connotations of May Day. Nevertheless, in celebration of Labour Day, traditionalists should re-examine what may have been authentic and insightful in Marx’s ideas – most notably, the cherishing of the worker. What is perhaps the pre-eminent attitude in authentic, reflective traditionalism is the recognition of the dignity of labour.
At the same time, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 5 Sep, 2011 at 11:30 in
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Pauline Kosalka #1 Banning abortion would lead to dangerous back-alley abortions
A common myth is that if women are deprived of the opportunity of having legal abortions, they will opt for more dangerous back alley abortions which will result in a higher mortality rate. However, according to the Elliot Institute, surveys show that only six to 20 per cent of women who currently have legal abortions would consider getting them illegally. “This finding also ... (Continue reading)
Written on 5 Sep, 2011 at 11:29 in
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In 1957, the French literary critic Roland Barthes published a lively collection of essays on mythologies that circulate in the modern world. From wrestling to red wine, from Citroëns to soap-powders, Barthes identified the unmarked, cultural myths prevalent in post-war France. In his view, myths are not simply ancient stories about philandering gods: they are a common feature of our daily lives.
Fifteen years after Barthes’ essays appeared, another French thinker, René ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Aug, 2011 at 10:44 in
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Commentary Alan Yoshioka and Theresa Yoshioka Ontario’s Equity and Inclusive Education Strategy (EIE) pushes aside child development norms in favour of an ideologically driven model of morally relativist gender-neutral citizenship. At a Pride Toronto reception on July 1, Premier Dalton McGuinty demonstrated his ongoing commitment to that mindset. He announced that the province will require that all its publicly funded schools – elementary or secondary – allow LGBT support groups.
The comprehensive EIE reform, including 13 directly related initiatives, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Aug, 2011 at 10:36 in
Announcements, Features, Youth Activism | Author:
Alissa Golob
It’s no secret to those who know me that I am a firm supporter of the use of graphic images when it comes to pro-life activism. However, when I signed up for the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform’s Summer Crash Course and was told we would be using them outside of the Calgary Stampede, I have to admit I was a little hesitant.
Every summer in Calgary, Canadians get the chance to experience an ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Aug, 2011 at 9:59 in
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Rick McGinnis For any halfway sensible TV viewer, “reality TV” is usually mentioned with a broad verbal wink, since the inference suggested by its very name is a kind of semantic gag that is presumed to tie viewers and the people who make it together in an agreed complicity. Simply put, the stuff is heavily staged, out of economic and dramatic necessity, and has been since the birth of the genre, which is ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Aug, 2011 at 12:50 in
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Review Paul Tuns Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men by Mara Hvistendahl (Public Affairs, $31.50, 313 pages)
A book authored by Science’s Beijing correspondent has garnered a lot of attention for pointing out that a combination of depopulation ideology, ultrasound technology, and late-term abortion has led to what Mara Hvistendahl has called “163 million missing women,” mostly in Asia where boy babies are valued over girl ... (Continue reading)
Written on 11 Aug, 2011 at 10:11 in
Announcements, Events, Features | Author:
Paul Tuns
It has been 20 years since Campaign Life Coalition held a conference in Toronto (not including national and international conferences they co-sponsored), and by all accounts the June 24-25 Toronto Pro-Life Forum was a resounding success.
Over 220 people attended the Friday evening banquet that featured Sun News media personality Brian Lilley as the keynote speaker, while more than 170 took part in the Saturday program featuring nearly a dozen speakers and panels.
Organizers ... (Continue reading)
Written on 9 Aug, 2011 at 11:18 in
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Commentary Donald DeMarco I am a baseball fan. I appreciate, therefore, the dramatic home run and the superlative play of those privileged individuals who are dubbed All Stars.
Naturally, on the night of July 11, I turned my TV channel to the broadcast of the All Star Home Run Derby. But a strange thing happened. Despite the triadic confluence of baseball, home runs, and All Stars, I soon became bored. And so, by the time Robinson Cano and ... (Continue reading)
Written on 9 Aug, 2011 at 11:08 in
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Plan Canada’s recent mass media initiative is well known across the country. From television commercials to sidewalk solicitors, the global children’s charity’s new campaign, “Because I Am a Girl,” proudly announces that its purpose is “to unleash the power of girls and women,” thereby ameliorating the condition of the fairer sex in the third world. According to their promotional material: “When a girl is educated, nourished and protected, she shares her ... (Continue reading)
Written on 7 Aug, 2011 at 18:56 in
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Paul Tuns Ten years ago, when I was 28 years old, I was named interim Interim co-editor and three months later the editor-in-chief of Canada’s pro-life and pro-family newspaper. During my tenure as the longest serving editor in the paper’s history there have been changes, both cosmetic and philosophical. Rather than being a paper that published pro-lifers who wrote, we became more a publication that published pro-life writers. We have conceived our mission to be more journalistic than activist – reporting on ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Jul, 2011 at 8:35 in
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Paul Tuns Growing up, I loved animals, watched television programs about nature (Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom with Marlin Perkins was a favourite), and visited more than a few zoos with my family. I thought of becoming a farmer or zookeeper when I grew up. I still enjoy watching documentaries about wildlife and taking my own family to the zoo. Animals are a source of endless fascination to me.
When I hear avid pro-lifers ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Jul, 2011 at 7:53 in
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Review Rick McGinnis The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture by David Mamet (Sentinel, $32.50, 256 pages)
Even during an apparent renaissance of conservative book publishing, one book has been anticipated more than almost any other this season. Anyone who considers themselves religious will recognize The Secret Knowledge by David Mamet as a conversion story, albeit one told in brief, scattershot chapters, written quickly, like moments of late-night inspiration captured on a notebook ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Jul, 2011 at 8:34 in
Announcements, Features | Author:
Oswald Clark Commentary
In May, Abacus Data, a new Canadian polling firm that conducts surveys for Sun News (broadcast and print), surveyed 1,007 Canadians about their attitudes on abortion. Pro-lifers should be overjoyed at the results even if they seem to lead to an unjustifiable policy conclusion.
Abacus polled on four questions, but two are worth highlighting. In one question Abacus asked which of two statements most accurately reflected respondents’ views on the abortion debate: ... (Continue reading)
