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Written on 26 May, 2011 at 13:38 in
Book Review, Columnist, Michael Coren | Author:
Michael Coren
My new book, Why Catholics Are Right (McClelland & Stewart) has just been published. For those readers who are not Catholic, please know that this is in no way an attack on you. Some of the finest defenders of life I know are, for example, evangelical Protestants, who could also teach me a great deal about being a Christian. What should concern readers of The Interim is that one of the chapters ... (Continue reading)
Written on 26 May, 2011 at 13:35 in
Announcements, Features, Rick McGinnis | Author:
Rick McGinnis
While heroes pay the bills in Hollywood, the creative class labouring in movies and TV are in thrall to anti-heroes, a mad love reinforced in the hymns sung by critics hardwired to prefer a menacing, flawed protagonist to a clear-browed, virtuous one. Batman versus Superman, if you will, and a loaded choice ultimately corrosive to the audience’s moral clarity, especially in an industry more competent at asking questions like “Ginger or Mary ... (Continue reading)
Written on 10 May, 2011 at 6:03 in
Announcements, Features, Rory Leishman | Author:
Every year since 1976, the United States Congress has adopted the “Hyde Amendment,” a legislative enactment banning the use of federal funds to pay for abortions except in the case of rape, incest or danger to the life of the mother. In addition, most of the states likewise ban public funding for abortions.
Within the United States, these measures have widespread public support. In a typical nationwide survey conducted last year, the independent ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Apr, 2011 at 11:58 in
Columnist, Rory Leishman | Author:
Rory Leishman
While campaigning for president in 2008, Barack Obama repeatedly stated his opposition to same-sex marriage. That, to say the least, was a deception.
While purporting to uphold traditional marriage as the union of a man and a woman, Obama said he would vote to repeal the Defence of Marriage Act (DOMA), a statute signed into law by former President
Bill Clinton that allows any state to refuse to recognize the legality of a so-called ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Apr, 2011 at 11:50 in
Columnist, Frank Kennedy | Author:
Frank Kennedy I heard from Premier McGuinty’s office that they were looking for help in the forthcoming provincial election and I was in a “must go to” folder. I was more shocked than surprised to hear from them because my Interim column back last November. “The Real McGuinty,” in which I said: “go, Mr. McGuinty! Take your pagan agenda with you.” This was certainly not a Christmas greeting.
I said aloud: “wow. Talk about ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Apr, 2011 at 11:46 in
Michael Coren | Author:
Michael Coren
Eunice and Owen Johns, 62 and 65, have just last month been ruled by the highest British court to be unsuitable as foster parents. They’re renowned as wonderful people, they do extraordinary outreach in their own English midlands black community, they give large amounts of their time and money to charity, and they have successfully and selflessly cared for 15 children in the past. But something vile and sinister apparently hides in ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Apr, 2011 at 11:26 in
Abortion, Announcements, Donald DeMarco, Features | Author:
Donald DeMarco Abortion requires obfuscation, cannot survive the Truth
Ten days after Remembrance Day (November 21, 2010), the Toronto Star, Canada’s highest-circulation newspaper, ran a massive four-page “Insight” feature explaining how an abortionist can reconcile his strong support for “women’s rights” with his personal life. One might imagine a future Remembrance Day when the unborn are remembered and memorialized. Major John McCrae’s celebrated poem could equally apply to the unborn as to ... (Continue reading)
Written on 11 Apr, 2011 at 19:21 in
Joe Campbell | Author:
Joe Campbell
Ecologists keep warning us about greenhouse gases and the changes in climate they allegedly cause. There is much to fear, they say, from global warming.
Well, I’ve just learned that one of the chief greenhouse gases is nitrous oxide. Nitrous oxide is laughing gas. What is there to fear from global laughing? Instead of climate change, ecologists should focus on mood change.
Nitrous oxide reached mood-changing atmospheric levels in the early 1990s. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 7 Apr, 2011 at 20:15 in
Announcements, Features, Rick McGinnis | Author:
Rick McGinnis Editor’s Note: There are book titles and quotes in this column that use language that some reader’s might find offensive.
Despite my wife’s best efforts, I never had much time for the popular parenting textbooks that ended up on our bookshelves – the “What To Expect When You’re...” series and their like, all written in useful gulps of text, with diagrams and bullet points and bold headings to help guide ... (Continue reading)
Written on 26 Mar, 2011 at 17:18 in
Columnist, Frank Kennedy | Author:
Frank Kennedy According to a recent Gallup poll, 57 per cent of Americans – and I suspect Canadians as well – have little or no trust in the mainstream media which publicizes, promotes, defends and almost worships secular humanists, and their ideology. Henry Morgentaler and Stephen Lewis appear to be their secular saints.
Who would have suspected that in just one generation Ontario Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty’s full-day Kindergarden program already contains a requirement for teachers to combat “preconceived notions about children’s... gender.” ... (Continue reading)
Written on 26 Mar, 2011 at 17:17 in
Columnist, Joe Campbell | Author:
Joe Campbell
It’s awe inspiring how far the pharmaceutical industry has come during my lifetime. When I was growing up, the only pills we had in our medicine cabinet were aspirin tablets.
Now, there are pills for practically every ailment and you get an order of side effects at no extra charge. My financial advisor thinks I should invest in pharmaceuticals. I don’t. I think I should invest in side effects. They’re more ... (Continue reading)
Written on 26 Mar, 2011 at 17:02 in
Michael Coren | Author:
Michael Coren
The last few months have been a disgrace for journalism. Especially for Canadian journalism. Especially for liberal Canadian journalism. Unable to tolerate what seems to be losing in the game of democracy and terrified by the possibility of a Conservative majority government, left-leaning pundits decided to blame the participants. Welcome to the hellish world of The Christian Right.
I’ve never seen such flummery and nonsense in all my life. A toxin of ignorance ... (Continue reading)
Written on 26 Mar, 2011 at 16:51 in
Announcements, Features, Rory Leishman | Author:
Rory Leishman In an interview with the CBC broadcast on Jan. 18, Prime Minister Stephen Harper indicated that he would go on opposing any legislative restrictions on abortion, even if the Conservatives were to win a majority of the seats in Parliament in the next federal election. “If you want to diminish the number of abortions,” he said, “you’ve got to change hearts and not laws.”
That argument is absurd. If Canada had no ... (Continue reading)
Written on 18 Mar, 2011 at 7:21 in
Rick McGinnis | Author:
Rick McGinnis At the end of January of this year, writer Yann Martel mailed his last book to Stephen Harper. For over three and a half years, the prize-winning author of The Life of Pi has sent a biweekly letter to the Prime Minister, enclosed with a book that he hoped our country’s elected leader would read, in the hope that it would – as he said in the letter accompanying the first book – provoke an “unwitting self-examination,” and “shudders of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Feb, 2011 at 7:09 in
Columnist, Michael Coren | Author:
Michael Coren
First he was, then he wasn’t, now he is again. In charge of Sun TV, that is. Kory Teneycke is his name and he’s a bright, fearless and startlingly youthful media expert. He’s also someone I’m proud to say is a friend. Frankly, I’ve never really discussed abortion, euthanasia, population size, sexuality and related issues with Kory, but I suspect he agrees with me on some if not all of these topics. ... (Continue reading)
