Paul Tuns
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Over the last few months, numerous groups and media outlets have noticed that the world’s population is aging –alarmingly so in the developed world – yet few identified the solution to the problem.
From the business pages of the daily papers to financial advisers, from the International Monetary Fund to the C.D. Howe Institute, alarm bells have been ringing about the rapidly aging populations of Canada, the United States, Japan and Europe. The developing world is also aging, though not as ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Aug, 2009 at 8:45 in
Columnist, Human rights, Paul Tuns, Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns Editor Pro-life MPP Frank Klees finishes strong second
The early frontrunner for the Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership ended up winning, but the pro-life evangelical who finished second surprised many both in and out of the party.
On the eve of the June 27 announcement at the leadership convention in Markham, one news broadcast said that the convention would crown ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Aug, 2009 at 8:25 in
Columnist, Euthanasia, Issues, Paul Tuns | Author:
Paul Tuns Editor The Quebec College of Physicians ethics task force is pushing the envelope on euthanasia by proposing that some forms of euthanasia be considered “as part of the appropriate care in certain particular circumstances.” The task force has toyed with the issue for three years and now is prepared to release a “reflection” paper in November. Dr. Yves Robert, the college’s secretary, told the Globe and Mail that the doctors’ organization is proceeding with “caution” as it seeks to put pressure ... (Continue reading)
Written on 12 Jul, 2009 at 13:03 in
Equal Rights, Paul Tuns, Society & Culture | Author:
Paul Tuns Editor On June 15, one week before Toronto Pride Week, Diane Ablonczy, minister of state for small business and tourism, announced the federal government of Canada was funding the homosexual event with a $400,000 grant under a new Marquis Tourism Events Program. The program is designed to assist major Canadian tourist events and the grant money will be used to improve the Pride event’s website and access for the disabled.
In making the announcement, Ablonczy pointed to the supposed economic benefits of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 12 Jul, 2009 at 12:38 in
Columnist, Marriage and Family, Paul Tuns | Author:
Paul Tuns - Editor On June 3, the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada released a report entitled, “Private Choices, Public Costs: How Failing Families Cost us All,” detailing the cost of family breakdown in Canada by examining the relationship between poverty and family structure.
Co-authors Rebecca Walberg and Andrea Mrozek say that the cost of poverty alleviation for broken families is “a bare minimum” of nearly $7 billion annually to taxpayers. The ... (Continue reading)
Written on 11 Jul, 2009 at 15:27 in
Abortion, Paul Tuns | Author:
Paul Tuns, Editor “Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use violence to get what it wants.”
- Mother Teresa at the 1994 Washington, D.C. prayer breakfast
On May 31, Wichita, Ks. abortionist George Tiller was killed while handing out bulletins as an usher in the foyer of his Reformed Lutheran church. The murder was quickly condemned by pro-life ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Jun, 2009 at 18:31 in
Columnist, Paul Tuns, Politics, Society & Culture | Author:
Paul Tuns Editor
Campaign Life Coalition has endorsed Frank Klees for the leadership of the Ontario Progressive Conservative party, noting that he is its "preferred candidate" in a field that includes three of his fellow Tory MPPs.
Klees is rated "pro-life" by CLC, whereas Randy Hillier (Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox-Addington) is rated "not pro-life," Tim Hudak (Niagara West-Glanbrook) is rated "unknown" and Christine Elliot (Whitby-Oshawa) is rated "pro-abortion."
CLC stated in a press release: ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Jun, 2009 at 11:45 in
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From the editor's desk It was a great National March for Life. It is inspiring to see everyone so joyfully witnessing to the great evil of our time and demanding justice for the unborn. At some level there seems something incongruent with that: joyful witnessing over abortion? It would be easy to come to Ottawa with long faces and focus on the grisly horror of abortion, but most people there are infused with the hope that some day this fight will be won. As ... (Continue reading)
Written on 31 Jan, 2009 at 20:04 in
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Paul Tuns
Editor Returning from his visit to Israel, Interim editor Paul Tuns discusses his 3-hatted journey as tourist, journalist, and pilgrim. (Continue reading)
Written on 4 Sep, 2008 at 10:05 in
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Paul Tuns Editor The pen is not just mightier than the sword; it is mightier than prison camps and the totalitarian regimes that depend upon them. The life of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the novelist and Russian dissident who died on August 3, proved as much.
In 1945, Solzhenitsyn was found guilty of anti-Soviet ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jun, 2008 at 7:33 in
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Paul Tuns Editor In recent months, the media have finally begun covering the goings-on of human rights commissions, thanks to separate complaints by different Muslims against Ezra Levant (the former publisher of The Western Standard), Maclean’s magazine and now the Halifax Chronicle-Herald newspaper. It took a complaint against one of their own tribe for journalists to finally wake up to the danger that this country’s federal ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 May, 2008 at 10:41 in
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Paul Tuns Editor
At The Interim’s 25th anniversary dinner, founding editor Jim Hughes acknowledged a number of people who have made the paper what it is today. He mentioned some of the old ad sales people, the paper’s builders, financial contributors and others whose work made the paper possible. We are here today because of their selfless work and generosity. We stand ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Mar, 2008 at 12:00 in
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Paul Tuns Editor Here is another installment of what didn’t make the paper this issue, with three disturbing items. One is about Toronto’s garbage collection plan that adversely affects large families, another is about the totalitarian impulse of environmental extremists and the last about abortionist Garson Romalis’s comments on why he enjoys being an abortion doctor.
Garson Romali... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Aug, 2007 at 13:37 in
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August 2007
From the Editors desk
The New York Times has editorialized that Dr. James Holsinger, President George W. Bush's surgeon-general designate, might not be qualified for the position because, when he served ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 May, 2007 at 13:13 in
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Paul Tuns Editor
From the editor's desk
Writing in the Ottawa Sun April 9, Carleton University political science grad Jordan Michael Smith jammed many leaps of logic, cherry-picking of polls and fallacious arguments to make the case that abortion is a settled issue in Canada. Here is an enumerated list of problematic arguments and a rebuttal of them.... (Continue reading)
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