In the boneyard of ambition

            Into an Ottawa government office poured a distraught looking young woman carrying a load of files that she dumped on a desk near the door, which she then kicked shut with her foot. She turned and spoke to a slim, bespectacled, middle-aged man in an ill-fitting suit standing behind a much larger desk near the window. "It's crazy out there! Absolutely crazy!" she cried, advancing towards his desk. "You must ... (Continue reading)

How does Canada compare?

Barack Obama giving pro-lifers a great gift? Before anyone starts to wonder what I’ve been inhaling, readers should know of the astonishing pro-life victories that occurred in the recent U.S. presidential election that have been largely unreported by the leftist-leaning media. Strangely, Obama was considered responsible in California for increasing black voter turnout, the vast majority of whom voted for Proposition 8, rejecting homosexual marriage. Proposition ... (Continue reading)

Unscrambling eggs

Awit once said: “Only God can unscramble an egg.” This was similar to the problem that faced Canadians in the recent federal election, when all major parties totally ignored the life issues. The Conservatives won with an increased minority, the Liberals dropped a pile of seats, the NDP picked up a few seats and the Greens were shut out. None of them deserved to win. With the exception of the ... (Continue reading)

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 ... (Continue reading)

I’m not signing my organ card

Peter Kormos, the veteran Ontario NDP MPP member for Niagara Centre, is once again trying to sell the dangerous idea of Ontario organ donors automatically becoming organ donors unless they opt out. What’s not readily understood is that your body’s got to be alive in order to make most organ donations. Viable organs cannot be taken from a corpse. As aToronto Star reader wrote recently: “We are not ... (Continue reading)

Order of Canada smells to high heaven

Maybe the Order of Canada is where Henry Morgentaler belongs. Maybe he fits in well with that group - well, some recipients of the Order of Canada. I didn’t hear about any flood of disgusted members filling the post office with their rejected snowflake awards when Morgentaler got his. Look who also joined the order on the day Morgentaler’s award was announced. ... (Continue reading)

Media are missing the boat

Do the media as a rule give pro-life and pro-life stories a pass? Having been at Queen’s Park as a part-time member of the press gallery for over 15 years, I would definitely say yes. The Interim recently celebrated its 25th anniversary and I wouldn’t have a job and The Interim wouldn’t even ... (Continue reading)

Aboard Stephane Dion’s bus

Frank, what are you planning to do?” “I’m going to Ottawa on Stéphane Dion’s bus tomorrow morning.” “Dear, this isn’t one of those crazy trips you take in order to sabotage the Liberal party, is it?” “Ileen, how can you ... (Continue reading)

King of the con men

I got out of the taxi in front of former U.S. vice-president Al Gore’s posh home in Nashville, Tenn. and whom should I find there pulling his oversized suitcase along the sidewalk but a well dressed con man I knew back in Canada! “Joe!” I cried. “What are you doing in the U.S.? The last time I saw you were selling body parts ... (Continue reading)

Cheque or cash, Brian?

In Great Britain, they say that when a politician loudly claims to the media his opponent is “not playing fair,” it’s a sure sign he’s losing. The latest news is that Cryin’ Brian Mulroney is complaining through his lawyers that the members of the House of Commons ethics committee conducting a probe into his suspicious business dealings ... (Continue reading)

Mulroney’s political mudslide

Fank Magazine – no relation – makes a list regularly of words and expressions that are trite and over-used by journalists and I take off my hat to them for doing so. I also promise to never use that trite expression again - unless I have to. The one trite expression they have never noted is: “I made a mistake.” Like when a mobster testifying on the ... (Continue reading)

McGuinty using JFK as a model

At Queen’s Park, the McGuinty government smells like something that even the raccoons won’t eat. Basking in the glow of a recent election victory that Dalton McGuinty never won, but that John Tory certainly lost, Dalton is trying to keep one election promise he made. He raced to trim abortion wait times in Ottawa. McGuinty is providing permanent funding for an additional 1,750 abortions a year in his hometown of ... (Continue reading)

John Tory: the camel in the tent

I just found out two startling things! What saved Canada in the beginning and who the camel in the tent was. We’ll start with who was the camel in the tent, because it leads directly into what saved Canada. In Aesop’s wonderful old story, a camel freezing out in the cold is able to persuade ... (Continue reading)

Panic strikes at the CBC

August 2007 "I want to see Rampfab!" yelled Alfred Jones-Smith, the program department head of the CBC. "He's turned the CBC into a pro-life organ of Campaign Life Coalition!" As the boss's right-hand man, I knew that Rampfab was in deep trouble when I ... (Continue reading)

Playing sports has always been a luckless, losing game for me. I was playing golf in a foursome with some guys from the office a few years back and gave up keeping score when we finally reached the 18th hole. At the back of the short 18th hole was a parking lot for the golfers, protected by a very tall wire fence. There was a ... (Continue reading)