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Written on 20 Feb, 2012 at 7:59 in
Paul Tuns | Author:
Paul Tuns For years The Interim has carried stories about sex-selective abortions and female feticide. In 1992, we ran an article about a woman who was doing sidewalk counselling in Calgary who was able to talk to a would-be mother of East Indian descent. She did not want to have an abortion but her partner did – after they found out that their child was a girl. The counsellor wrote of the mother: ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Jan, 2012 at 8:06 in
Columnist, Joe Campbell | Author:
Joe Campbell “Yes,” Bidwell said, “I want to take part in the anti-poverty campaign.”
“Excellent,” the chairman replied. “We’re meeting here for the next several days to renew our mandate. If you’re interested, we’ve got openings for the right sort of people.” Hoping he was the right sort of person, Bidwell agreed to an interview.
“Join me for dinner at my hotel,” the chairman said.
To show that he was in solidarity with the poor, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Jan, 2012 at 8:01 in
Columnist, Frank Kennedy | Author:
Frank Kennedy Thank God for the “ferocious opposition” from the pro-family and pro-life voters to introducing the absurd project of Premier Dalton McGuinty’s Ontario Liberal government to implement a controversial sex education curriculum teaching Grade 3 children about homosexuality and Grade 7 children about anal and oral sex. Can polygamy and bestiality be far behind? All these crucial issues without going to the electorate for their voice to be heard.
Fearing a colossal election ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Jan, 2012 at 7:59 in
Columnist, Michael Coren | Author:
Michael Coren So former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky explained in a painfully clumsy interview that he was not sexually aroused by young boys, but does like to shower with them and touch their legs. Oh well, that’s okay then. No wrong-doing there. No sir, you’re a criminal and a pervert sir, and that is the end of story. Good God, who advised the man to do these interviews? Then we had so-called ... (Continue reading)
Written on 26 Jan, 2012 at 11:45 in
Announcements, Features, Rick McGinnis | Author:
Rick McGinnis Just as the sordid but ongoing saga of filmmaker and convicted pedophile Roman Polanski fades once again from the headlines, stories of child abuse in Hollywood have erupted again, with an unprecedented frequency. Of course, if you don’t know where to look for this sort of news, you might never have heard a thing.
In late November, a composer who had won awards for his work on Sesame Street was charged with ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Jan, 2012 at 9:20 in
Announcements, Euthanasia, Features, Rory Leishman | Author:
Rory Leishman In defense of the pernicious proposition that all mentally competent Canadians should have a legal right to medical assistance in committing suicide, the “expert panel” of the Royal Society of Canada on end-of-life decision making contends, in its recent report, that: “Autonomy (or the capacity for self-determination) is a paramount value to Canadians. Respect for autonomy requires respect for competent individuals’ free and informed decisions with respect to how and when ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Dec, 2011 at 7:26 in
Columnist, Joe Campbell | Author:
Joe Campbell When I was growing up, my teachers insisted that I strive for excellence. So did my parents. Both neglected to instruct me about the superiority of equality. If I failed a math test, there was no amnesty in pleading that everyone else failed it, too. That’s why I gasped on learning about the travails of a retired provincial premier with a serious, progressive illness. It took two years, with ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Dec, 2011 at 7:22 in
Columnist, Michael Coren | Author:
Michael Coren Another story from the most important community in the history of the world, and one that should teach us a great deal about how truth is manipulated by the consensus media. The story is about – yes, you guessed it – gay people of course. In October, in a small town in Ontario, a lesbian couple were allegedly asked to leave a Tim Hortons because there were complaints by a Christian pastor ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Dec, 2011 at 7:12 in
Columnist, Frank Kennedy, Profiles | Author:
Frank Kennedy Marshall McLuhan is back in the spotlight in a worldwide celebration of 100 years of McLuhan. He wasn’t really gone. What McLuhan – as a cult figure – predicted years ago of an emerging global village, a sort of a Promised Land would arrive. McLuhan, who didn’t think it would necessarily be agreeable or tolerable, was uncannily correct with the ruthless phone-hacking culture that the British tabloid News of the World ... (Continue reading)
Written on 12 Dec, 2011 at 13:03 in
Announcements, Features, Rick McGinnis | Author:
Rick McGinnis I’m sure that I’ve seen too many movies. There’s no scientific way to be sure, I’ll admit, but the wary feeling I get in my stomach when I sit down in a cinema or open a new DVD is probably some instinctual sign that, many years ago, I should have said “enough, already.” What keeps me going, I suppose, is the rare moment when I discover that there are still films ... (Continue reading)
Written on 12 Dec, 2011 at 12:21 in
Columnist, Rory Leishman | Author:
Philip Slayton, former dean of law at the University of Western Ontario, is not now and never has been a consistent advocate of judicial restraint, but at least he displays some belated concern over the excesses of judicial activism in his latest book aptly entitled Mighty Judgment, How the Supreme Court of Canada Runs Your Life.
As examples of judicial legislation, Slayton points out that it was not Parliament, but the Supreme Court ... (Continue reading)
Written on 12 Dec, 2011 at 12:17 in
Columnist, Donald DeMarco, Marriage and Family | Author:
Commentary Donald DeMarco “All who would win joy, must share it;
happiness was born a twin.”
-- George Gordon Lord Byron
Birth, as it is often said, is a miracle. A baby is born, a living, breathing, honest-to-goodness baby that you can hold in your arms. Just prior to delivery, it was something parents were expecting, but whose reality was still concealed. It was something that was swelling under its mother’s heart. But it was not ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Nov, 2011 at 11:26 in
Columnist, Rory Leishman | Author:
Rory Leishman As originally conceived by Egerton Ryerson, chief superintendent of education for Upper Canada from 1844 to 1876, the publicly funded schools of English-speaking Canada – Protestant, Catholic and secular – were outstanding. But do these schools still provide a suitable education for most Canadian children? Most definitely not.
Over the past 50 years, Canada’s publicly funded schools have succumbed to a degree of moral and intellectual corruption that Ryerson and his contemporaries would ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Nov, 2011 at 11:25 in
Columnist, Michael Coren | Author:
Michael Coren A few weeks ago I received an e-mail from someone named Chris Topple. He described himself as being a fairly typical Canadian. He lives in Oshawa, Ont. He said he wanted to tell me about his experience, and that of his four-year-old granddaughter. He wrote that she came home from junior kindergarten in her public school with a book in her backpack given her by her teacher. The book was entitled Mom ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Nov, 2011 at 11:22 in
Columnist, Joe Campbell | Author:
Joe Campbell “You weren’t loud enough,” Molder said. “You should have been on your feet yelling like the rest of us.”
“The quarterback was having a hard time making himself heard,” Bimson replied. “I didn’t want to add to his difficulties.”
“That’s what the home team fans are for.”
“We’re supposed to drown out the quarterback whenever the visitors have the ball?”
“Absolutely,” Molder said. “When the home team fans aren’t loud enough to disrupt the ... (Continue reading)
