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Written on 25 Jul, 2011 at 8:27 in
Columnist, Frank Kennedy | Author:
Frank Kennedy Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty is adopting storm trooper tactics right out of the Nazi’s playbook in forcing the Toronto Catholic School Board to allow Gay Discussion Clubs in Catholic Schools even though the Church feels they will promote homosexuality. Based on Sacred Scriptures, the Catholic Faith, and Biblical injunctions, “homosexual acts” are depraved and “intrinsically evil.” The Catholic Church by its mandate cannot promote this way of life.
McGuinty bought the Goebbels ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Jul, 2011 at 8:01 in
Columnist, Joe Campbell | Author:
Joe Campbell Politics is indeed a blood sport. Look what happened to the Liberals and Bloc Quebecois in the recent federal election. The leaders were unseated and the parties beheaded. But the amputation didn’t end there. Some snouts were cut off from the public trough, and if it were not for gold plated pensions, many more would have suffered a similar fate.
Oh, I know that phrases like blood sport, snout in the trough, and gold plated pensions are clichés. But clichés are ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Jul, 2011 at 7:59 in
Columnist, Michael Coren | Author:
Michael Coren
Our schools are being drowned in gratuitous and agenda-driven social programs. As I write this column, the Roman Catholic schools in particular are facing a concerted attempt to promote the homosexual lifestyle, all in the guise of anti-bullying. But this is nothing new. More than 10 years ago I faced on my television show an example of political nastiness that I have not seen in more than two decades of journalism. The ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Jul, 2011 at 7:57 in
Donald DeMarco | Author:
Donald DeMarco Commentary “The Time Travel Society will hold its annual meeting three years ago.” This chronological bit of humor may be viewed as a tribute to H. G. Wells’ fabled time machine. Nevertheless, we do possess a technology that has much in common with time travel. It is the modern television set, partnered, as it is, with the handheld remote that can carry us, at the touch of a button, from one age to another. Television has converted time into space, an accomplishment ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Jun, 2011 at 8:45 in
Columnist, Paul Tuns | Author:
Paul Tuns The May issue could have been 32 pages or more. It was a big month for news since our last issue came out. Our beloved former columnist Fr. Ted Colleton passed away April 26. On May 2, there was transformational federal election. On May 13, Ottawa witnessed the largest-ever National March for Life, and successful regional marches were held coast-to-coast. How to fit it all in? What to put on the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Jun, 2011 at 8:43 in
Columnist, Rory Leishman | Author:
Rory Leishman What will it take for Canadians finally to rebel against the abuse of power by Canada’s immensely wealthy and politically intimidating teachers’ unions.
On May 4, about 12,000 unionized Saskatchewan teachers walked off the job in one-day protest strike against lagging contract negotiations. Students lost a day of schooling and parents were given little notice of the impending strike, yet picketing teachers held up placards proclaiming “For Our Students.”
“For Ourselves” would have been ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Jun, 2011 at 8:40 in
Columnist, Frank Kennedy | Author:
Frank Kennedy The recent federal election result was predictable -- Harper got his long sought majority -- but how it came about was totally unpredictable and astonishing. There’s an interesting side-story that isn’t getting much coverage.
The left-leaning media did their level best to piggyback Ignatieff and his Liberal crew to victory but failed. When it became obvious that Plan A had failed, they resorted to Plan B: get in front of the NDP’s ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Jun, 2011 at 8:39 in
Columnist, Michael Coren | Author:
Michael Coren C.S. Lewis, Thomas Aquinas, Socrates, Kierkegaard, Bieber. Or something like that. Up until quite recently I haven’t regarded 16-year-old pop sensation, and little girl heartthrob, Justin Bieber as a particularly great moral philosopher and academic ethicist, but I have to admit that I think I got it terribly wrong. Jest aside, the Canadian kid who makes pre-teens weep and scream at a mere toss of his hair has shown himself to be ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Jun, 2011 at 8:38 in
Columnist, Joe Campbell | Author:
Joe Campbell “I go to jazz festivals every chance I get,” Bimson said. “They’re really inclusive. At the last one I attended the organizers included rock, hip hop, rhythm and blues, country, folk, Latin, reggae and klesmer.”
“That’s inclusive, all right,” Molder said.
“You bet it is,” said Bimson, “why, they even included jazz.”
“Isn’t that carrying inclusiveness too far?”
“Only if you don’t carry tolerance far enough,” Bimson replied.
“But jazz doesn’t belong with the other ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Jun, 2011 at 8:27 in
Columnist, Rick McGinnis | Author:
Rick McGinnis Before I say anything else about Game Of Thrones, this Spring’s big-budget HBO epic miniseries, it has to be understood that there’s nothing family friendly about the show. Full of blood and sex, full-frontal nudity, incest, animal cruelty and some wildly explicit language, it almost seems like the producers, having seen quality cable push the boundaries with each new series, are attempting to set precedents so far past anything any but ... (Continue reading)
Written on 26 May, 2011 at 14:33 in
Columnist, Donald DeMarco | Author:
Commentary Donald DeMarco I have, on a few occasions, during my career as a pro-life advocate, been mistaken for one who promotes the other side. A TV talk show host invited me to come on her show to neutralize a previous guest of hers who was, to her chagrin, pro-life. A group of pro-abortionists asked me to host a pro-choice taping for them. I have even had the delightful experience of being a target for conversion by a well-known American pro-lifer.
I attribute this ... (Continue reading)
Written on 26 May, 2011 at 14:08 in
Columnist, Frank Kennedy | Author:
Let’s look at all these political parties craving for our votes in the forthcoming federal election. Are any of them worth voting for?
The pro-abortion Bloc Québécois— the separatist party that wants Quebec to leave the country? I don’t think they are sincere. They know it would be like shooting the family cow which is the federal government’s $8.5 billion in equalization payments which Quebec gets every year from the taxpayers of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 26 May, 2011 at 14:03 in
Columnist, Joe Campbell | Author:
Joe Campbell
It’s no use. I can’t keep up with postmodern thought. Try as I may, I’m not able to get my mind around the idea that we make our own truth. The lyrics of too many popular love songs won’t let me. No matter when they’re written, they reveal unchanging truths, the kind we discover, not the kind we make up. You might say that the fundamental things apply as time ... (Continue reading)
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)
