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Written on 29 Jun, 1995 at 11:08 in
Frank Kennedy, Politics | Author:
Frank Kennedy Queen’s Park Ont
Bob Rae’s shocked attitude towards his recent electoral defeat had him wringing his hands and asking how could they do this to me after all I’ve done for them?
This has been the longest time in between elections that I have ever experienced. It has only been four and half years since David Peterson’s Liberals bit the dust but it feels like forty and half years. (Make that four hundred and fifty years!)
Rae was never really elected premier of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Apr, 1995 at 12:43 in
Columnist, Frank Kennedy, Politics | Author:
Frank Kennedy It was August of this year when I finally got around to visiting the Windsor Casino in Windsor, Ontario, in order to bring the readers of The Interim the reason why 14,000 gamblers (called casino customers) blow $419,000 per day to beat actuarially impossible odds. I think they are going to make a film about it called Blind Optimism.
Passing the strict scrutiny of the Casino security force. I was allowed into the main gaming room. It was ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Mar, 1995 at 10:12 in
Frank Kennedy, Politics | Author:
Frank Kennedy Queen’s Park Ont.
Bob Rae has his sights set on destroying the Catholicity that remains in the Separate School system and most Ontario Catholics are sound asleep and totally unaware of the bomb ticking in their midst.
A deal made ten years ago by a then-Liberal/NDP coalition government to ensure passage of a bill to give more equitable funding to Separate Schools had an olive with an extra big stone in it. It required Separate Schools ten years hence to ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Feb, 1995 at 9:53 in
Frank Kennedy, Politics | Author:
Frank Kennedy Queen’s Park Ont.
Yes! Somebody stole our car! It was the most annoying and frightening thing that has happened to me since Bob Rae got elected. They say a Republican is a Democrat who’s been mugged. Well I felt the same way when I discovered our ’93 Honda was missing. I was frantic! I was angry! I had almost persuaded to champion the death penalty for people suspected of being car thieves.
It was stolen right out of the car ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Sep, 1994 at 13:22 in
Frank Kennedy, Politics | Author:
Frank Kennedy, Queen’s Park A mother of five whose children were attending Catholic schools in Toronto told me this true story at a recent meeting of school officials.
A teacher in the gifted program one day had the grade eight class sit in a circle on the floor and had them pass a small rock from hand to hand, telling the rock how they felt. They were to speak and relate their spirit to the spirit of the rock. Her daughter who was in attendance ... (Continue reading)
Written on 11 Jul, 1994 at 10:27 in
Columnist, Fetal Rights | Author:
Fr. Ted Colleton
Faith and Life
One morning I was picketing with four ladies outside the “Doctor” Burriani abortuary in Toronto. At about 10:30 a large truck pulled up outside and the driver, a pleasant looking young man alighted. He nodded to us, smiled and went inside.
As it is a very busy street I hadn’t taken much notice of the truck until one of the ladies said to me, “That truck is taking the babies’ bodies out to the garbage.”
A few ... (Continue reading)
Written on 11 Jul, 1994 at 10:25 in
Columnist, Frank Kennedy, Politics | Author:
Frank Kennedy
Queen's Park
Recently, I was trapped in an elevator at the Ontario legislature with Marion Boyd and a posse of NDPers. I barely survived with my sanity. (At least I think I did, editor).
The occasion was a buck and doe celebrating the surprise marriage of MPP Shelley Martel (she of the lie detector test) and rabid hockey player and part-time cabinet minister, Howie Hampton. I only went because it wasn’t a same-sex marriage between two cabinet ministers. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Dec, 1993 at 9:04 in
Frank Kennedy, Politics | Author:
Frank Kennedy
Queen’s Park, Ont. My number one Christmas wish would be for a time when a newly elected Member of Parliament – with the unlikely name of I.Yamma Windsniffer – stands up in the House of Commons in Ottawa and says: “Although I’m personally pro-abortion, I will not allow my personal convictions to stand in the way of me voting pro-life!”
Then I. Y. Windsniffer will sit down to a pleasant roar of approval from hundreds of other ‘Windsniffers’ who have recently been elected. When ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Sep, 1993 at 9:19 in
Frank Kennedy | Author:
Frank Kennedy Queen’s Park, Ont.
A few months ago I was summoned to serve my jury duty. The first thing that I did was call Clare Dodds, the legal counsel for Campaign Life Coalition, with a bad case of apoplexy. “Get me out of this!” I begged.
Calmly Clare told me that it was my civic duty to serve – and I might even get a column out of it.
I tried a new tactic on Clare. I’ve been arrested a couple of times for ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Jul, 1993 at 12:21 in
Frank Kennedy, Society & Culture | Author:
Frank Kennedy
Queen’s Park, Ont. Bob, take my advice (I know you never have) and give those American mobsters who want to run ‘Bob Rae’s Windsor Casino’ the boot. We’ll all be better off for it. I don’t like the suggested name for the casino anymore than you do but then again it may be the only monument that you’ll have.
I just finished reading Double Cross, a book about murdered mobster Sam “Mooney” Giancana, written by his brother Chuck Giancana and Chuck’s son. The authors ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Jun, 1993 at 12:10 in
Frank Kennedy, Politics, World Briefs | Author:
Frank Kennedy I feel sorry for all those poor media types who have recently, in numerous heart rending columns, eulogized the brave and courageous Anita Hill.
Here she is hobnobbing with the likes of Hilary Clinton and Gloria Steinem and being named Vanity Fair’s Woman of the Year. Why she’s even given credit for the election of President Clinton, the number of women elected to Congress and the 45 per cent increase in sexual harassment cases.
A new book, The Real Anita Hill: The ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Mar, 1993 at 13:17 in
Frank Kennedy, Politics, Society & Culture | Author:
Frank Kennedy Now that a lot of dust has settled on the announcement by former Health Minister Frances Lankin that she would implement the recommendations of the Task Group on Abortion Services, we can take another look beneath the surface.
We’re quite to arrogance of politicians and their delicious contempt for the intelligence
of the ordinary voter. But it seems to me that the NDP has hit an all time high (or low depending on which way you view things) with the Task Group.
First ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Dec, 1992 at 8:01 in
Frank Kennedy, Pro-Life, Society & Culture | Author:
Frank Kennedy Let’s take one last look at why the widely touted “yes” camp lost so badly in the recent referendum. I voted “no” and I have found few pro-lifers who voted “yes”. (Joe Borowski of Winnipeg was the big exception. Sorry, Joe). Actually, I had three hundred and seventy-eight reasons for voting “no” – but I’m sure that you don’t want to hear all of them.
For me, it boiled down to the credibility of the principal spokes-people for the “yes” side. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Nov, 1992 at 12:14 in
Frank Kennedy, Pro-Life, Society & Culture | Author:
Frank Kennedy Sixty thousand letters that swamped her Ministry, complaining about the taking over Catholic hospitals in Ontario, appear to have caused second thoughts and sent the Hon. Frances Lankin scrambling for a new position.
Ms. Lankin, Ontario’s Minister of Health, stated in a closed meeting of hospital chief executive officers and members of district health councils on September 21 that her government “has no intention of expropriating your ownership, or undermining your role, as happened for example in New Brunswick.”
This appears to ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Oct, 1992 at 7:59 in
Abortion, Frank Kennedy, Pro-Life, Society & Culture | Author:
Frank Kennedy Toronto. Since August 19 Ontario’s health minister has received 59,000 pieces of mail complaining about the threatened elimination of individual Ontario hospital boards.
Frances Lankin, Minister of Health, wants to place all hospitals, including those privately owned, under elected boards. Catholics have swamped the office of the Minister with letters of protest.
Layne Verbeek, communications spokesman for the Minister of Health, used “swamped” and “incredible” to describe the situation. Normally the Ministry receives 25,000 letters per year. He said that this has ... (Continue reading)
