Paul Tuns
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Written on 25 Jul, 2011 at 8:35 in
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Paul Tuns Growing up, I loved animals, watched television programs about nature (Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom with Marlin Perkins was a favourite), and visited more than a few zoos with my family. I thought of becoming a farmer or zookeeper when I grew up. I still enjoy watching documentaries about wildlife and taking my own family to the zoo. Animals are a source of endless fascination to me.
When I hear avid pro-lifers ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Jun, 2011 at 8:45 in
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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 14 Feb, 2011 at 19:32 in
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Paul Tuns A social conservative assessment
Stephen Harper, the Liberals like to tell us, has a hidden agenda. Deep down in his black heart of hearts he wants to ban abortion. Yet, for nearly two decades, Campaign Life Coalition has rated him as “pro-abortion” or “not pro-life,” based on his public statements, CLC questionnaires he returned, and voting record. I’d like to be able to tell you that the truth is somewhere in ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Jan, 2011 at 11:56 in
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Paul Tuns Robert Latimer has been granted full parole. I am not surprised by the decision, just ticked off. It sends a terrible signal to society that the life of a person with a disability is less valuable than the life of an able-bodied person. That is sick, perverse and dehumanizing. Canada is better than that. As the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition’s Alex Schadenberg says, “the EPC has always held that Robert Latimer should be treated in ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Jul, 2010 at 6:43 in
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Paul Tuns Editor Last month I reviewed Marci McDonald’s hideous book The Armageddon Factor. I chose to focus on the numerous errors throughout the book – author Denyse O’Leary has coined the term ‘marcis’ to describe “errors of fact that fact-checking would have prevented.” On TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paiken, McDonald pointed out that her critics have merely pointed out the factual errors in her screed and have not criticized her argument. She ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Apr, 2010 at 6:21 in
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Paul Tuns At our website, TheInterim.com, we comment on current news items at our blog Soconvivium (www.theinterim.com/soconvivium). During the debate on the Liberal motion to require that abortion and contraception be made part of the government’s maternal health program (see story on page two), we “live-blogged” the proceedings. Here are excerpts of my comments as the debate progressed.
11:09 am: Liberal MP Keith Martin in his contribution to the debate offered this nugget: “Doesn’t pro-life ... (Continue reading)
Written on 13 Nov, 2009 at 6:01 in
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Paul Tuns On Sept. 23, the Madam Justice Sunni Stromberg-Stein of the Supreme Court of British Columbia quashed polygamy charges against Winston Blackmore and James Oler. The legal reasoning is rather technical and narrow – the defense claimed and the justice agreed that former Attorney General Wally Oppal had gone “special prosecutor shopping” – but that doesn’t change the reality that the decision will be read, at the very least, as tolerance for polygamy in Canadian law and perhaps an endorsement of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Oct, 2009 at 10:20 in
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Paul Tuns Agronomist who helped double agricultural production dies at 95
Norman Borlaug, one of the most important people of the 20th century, has died at the age of 95. Borlaug is often referred to as the “father of the green revolution” – the new processes and techniques in agriculture that brought food to hundreds of millions of starving people and helped lower the cost of food products around ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Oct, 2009 at 8:49 in
Columnist, Paul Tuns, Pro-Life | Author:
Paul Tuns Editor On Sept. 11, a lone gunman shot James Pouillon twice, killing the long-time pro-life activist in front of Owosso High School in Owosso, Mich., near Flint.
Pouillon, 63, was holding a sign with a newborn child and the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Oct, 2009 at 10:20 in
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Paul Tuns In September, the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children held its national conference in conjunction with the annual meeting of the International Right to Life Federation. Conference participants were thus treated to international experts from all corners of the globe who spoke about the challenges to defend human life at all stages.
SPUC, which describes itself as the world’s first pro-life pressure group, held its conference at the Hayes Conference Centre in Derbyshire, England, several hours north of London. Jim ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Sep, 2009 at 15:15 in
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Paul Tuns Editor
One of Canada’s most committed pro-life politicians, Stanley Haidasz, passed away August 6 at the age of 86.
Haidasz, a Liberal, served in Parliament for nearly a half-century. First elected in 1957, he lost his re-election bid the following year, but regained his Parkdale seat in Toronto in 1962 and was then re-elected five times. In ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Sep, 2009 at 5:49 in
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Paul Tuns Editor
Health care reform bills introduced by Congressional Democrats and backed by the White House include federal taxpayer funding of abortion and open the door to rationing care for the elderly and other vulnerable persons, in order to realize savings in the overall health care system.
These controversial measures have led to a backlash against President Barack Obama’s goal of broadly reforming ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Sep, 2009 at 5:29 in
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From the editor's desk Last month, the National Post reported that one in five schools in the Toronto public school system is at least 40 per cent empty and that the board hopes to save $10-15 million by consolidating or closing some of those institutions. West Toronto Collegiate cancelled its Grade 9 program this year because there were too few students enrolled in first-year high school. As Toronto District School Board chairman John Campbell ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Sep, 2009 at 5:09 in
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Paul Tuns Editor In the spring, the National Assembly of Quebec passed Bill 34, a law that mandated minimum safety and sanitation requirements for private health care facilities that perform surgeries. It mandated, for example, sterile operating rooms and separate ventilating systems, as well as outlined procedures to protect patients who use non-hospital facilities for medical care. In August, three Montreal abortuaries said they would stop committing abortions if the law was not amended to exempt them from the provisions.
... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Aug, 2009 at 5:52 in
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Paul Tuns Editor
Charles Gonthier, a former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, passed away recently at the age of 80. Appointed by Brian Mulroney in 1989, he developed a reputation as a conservative during his 14 years on the country’s top court.
The Canadian Press reported in its obituary that Gonthier offered “a more conservative ... (Continue reading)
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