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Written on 29 Apr, 2013 at 7:39 in
Columnist, Society & Culture | Author:
Joe Campbell Light is Right Joe Campbell
I try to practice human rights. I don’t mean that I try to practice what governments and their rights agencies preach. On the contrary, I try to practice what they breach. That is, I try to practice human rights.
I also preach them. Chiefly, I preach, and the others breach, the right to proclaim and act on our religious beliefs and to teach ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Apr, 2013 at 16:08 in
Columnist, Michael Coren | Author:
Michael Coren Michael Coren Journalist for Life
I am a hated man. If you read the comments section at the bottom of my columns and broadcasts, look at what is said on Twitter and Facebook, or could see some of the letters and e-mails written to me personally, you would appreciate the depth and width and anger and malice of the threats, abuse, insults, and lies. I am attacked for being ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Apr, 2013 at 16:06 in
Announcements, Columnist, Features, Movie Review, Rick McGinnis | Author:
Rick McGinnis Anthony Quinn as Pope Kiril in the film version of Morris West's novel The Shoes of the Fisherman
When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires stepped onto the balcony at St. Peter’s Square last month, he helped provide a satisfactory conclusion to a ritual that – as we were told repeatedly in the thicket of media coverage – is watched with fascination both within and without the Catholic ... (Continue reading)
Written on 8 Apr, 2013 at 13:17 in
Announcements, Columnist, Features, Human rights, Rory Leishman | Author:
Rory Leishman National Affairs Rory Leishman
With the unanimous ruling in the case of Bill Whatcott on Wednesday, the Supreme Court of Canada has stepped up its attack on freedom of speech and freedom of religion as never before. For faithful Christians, the implications are clear: Like Whatcott, they, too, could end up in jail as a prisoner of conscience for upholding the plain teachings of Sacred Scripture on the sinfulness of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Mar, 2013 at 16:39 in
Columnist, Religion, Rory Leishman | Author:
Rory Leishman Whatever happened to the valid free exercise of religion?
National Affairs Rory Leishman
In opposing the establishment of a law school at Trinity Western University (TWU), the Canadian Council of Law Deans have demonstrated once again that they, like our judicial masters in the courts, have renounced both freedom of religion and the rule of law. In a letter to the Federation of Canadian Law Societies, the deans ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Mar, 2013 at 16:37 in
Columnist, Joe Campbell | Author:
Joe Campbell Light is Right Joe Campbell
As a child, I learned that bills and coins make a financial statement. They declare a cash value. As an adult, I learned that they also make a policy statement. They reveal a partisan position. Besides purchasing power, they represent political power. Money doesn’t talk. It cheers.
Less than a year after the Bank of Canada issued it, our first polymer bill sparked a political ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Mar, 2013 at 16:27 in
Columnist, Frank Kennedy, Politics | Author:
Frank Kennedy The good news is that Premier Dalton McGuinty is no longer the premier of Ontario. I hold that he effectively quit being the premier of Ontario last Fall when on October 15 he announced that he was stepping down and prorogued the legislature indefinitely. But McGuinty carried on the day to day business of the legislature as if he still held the keys to power.
If the MPPs can’t meet and ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Mar, 2013 at 11:56 in
Columnist, Paul Tuns | Author:
Paul Tuns
As noted in our editorial on the opposite page, we are marking 30 years of publishing The Interim this month. I have had the privilege of writing and serving on the editorial board of this paper for 15 years, and as editor for almost 12 years. I consider it an incredible honour to be able to use my journalistic talents to further the pro-life cause and to serve the pro-life ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Mar, 2013 at 11:28 in
Announcements, Columnist, Features, Rick McGinnis, Television Shows | Author:
Rick McGinnis Lena Duham
It’s a truism that every generation believes that the ones immediately following it will preside over the dismantling of every social, cultural and economic virtue that they took for granted, a rite of passage for senior generations that begins roughly when they realize that they’ve slipped out of the green vale of youth. There’s no objective way of proving this imminent decline, but since popular culture began to edge ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Mar, 2013 at 15:04 in
Announcements, Columnist, Features, Michael Coren, Politics | Author:
Journalist for Life Michael Coren Kathleen Wynne - openly gay Premier of Ontario
In case nobody has noticed, Ontario has a new premier. The most significant province in Canada found itself with a new leader, and more than 99 per cent of Ontarians hadn’t voted for her; they couldn’t because they weren’t given a chance. Liberal leader Dalton McGuinty resigned, and a couple thousand Liberal hacks and zealots got together to party and to elect someone ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Feb, 2013 at 19:37 in
Columnist, Marriage and Family, Rory Leishman | Author:
National Affairs Rory Leishman
In an ominous sign of the times, London’s Daily Telegraph published a joint letter to the editor on Jan. 12 in which more than 1,000 priests and eight bishops of the Catholic Church decry the onset of a new age of religious persecution in Britain.
Of prime concern to the letter-writers is the determination of the government of British Prime Minister David Cameron to enact same-sex “marriage” into ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Feb, 2013 at 19:36 in
Columnist, Joe Campbell | Author:
Joe Campbell Light is Right Joe Campbell
I used to believe that to sell books, you needed catchy titles. I was wrong. I can think of few titles less catchy than Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Even the short version, DSM, doesn’t qualify as catchy. And yet this publication of the American Psychiatric Association is a best seller, popular both at home and abroad.
Now in its fourth edition, the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Feb, 2013 at 19:34 in
Announcements, Columnist, Features, Rick McGinnis | Author:
Rick McGinnis While the political battle over abortion has hardened into a seemingly intractable stalemate, the pro-life side of the issue can take some small comfort in the fact that, at least on the cultural front, abortion remains a hard sell.
To be sure, secularized liberals whose support for abortion remains an article of faith almost wholly occupy the strategic high ground – the movie studios and production houses, performing arts and publishing. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 22 Feb, 2013 at 19:28 in
Announcements, Columnist, Features, Michael Coren | Author:
Michael Coren Journalist for Life
It happens on a horribly regular basis. A child is abducted and killed, and often assaulted first. The media transforms the story into headline news, the community activates, the police do all that they can, but the tragedy still occurs and cuts like a razor into the flesh of our being. Such events will occur again and again because there will always be evil people in the world ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Jan, 2013 at 10:30 in
Columnist, Rory Leishman | Author:
Rory Leishman Shortly after Barack Obama won the 2008 United States presidential election, Republican Congressman Paul Ryan ruefully observed: “Whenever Republicans lose an election, a factional dispute arises about ‘economic issues’ versus ‘moral or social issues.’ ‘Traditionalists’ and ‘libertarians’ blame each other, each claiming Republicans would do better without the other.”
Now some libertarians are back at it again, blaming the Republicans’ defeat in last year’s presidential election on the majority of social conservatives in the Republican Party who steadfastly uphold the natural family ... (Continue reading)
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