Paul Tuns
Written on 30 Oct, 2003 at 11:42 in
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By Paul Tuns The Interim Former Liberal and independent MP John Nunziata, who is running to become Toronto's next mayor, faces four socially liberal opponents. While most analysts say former Toronto mayor Barbara Hall will ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Oct, 2003 at 11:15 in
Bioethics, Paul Tuns, Politics | Author:
By Paul Tuns The Interim Bill C-13, An Act Respecting Human Reproduction and Related Technologies, hangs in limbo as the federal government seems unsure of whether it has enough support to get it passed.
As a sign of its desperation to enact the reproductive technologies legislation, the government has indicated that the vote will not be a free one. It has also suggested to Liberal MP Paul ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Oct, 2003 at 11:14 in
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Analysis by Paul Tuns The Interim
Ontario pro-life voters are being urged to look beyond party affiliations and closely examine the positions of the candidates.
None of the three major parties - the Progressive Conservatives, Liberals and NDP - have a party platform amiable to life, although there are candidates in each of the parties that personally hold pro-life views. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 5 Sep, 2003 at 12:52 in
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Analysis by Paul Tuns The Interim
Growing public and political opposition to the government's plan to redefine marriage to include same-sex couples may delay such changes until as late as 2005. But there is pressure to pass such legislation much sooner, as Prime Minister Jean Chretien, who has failed to secure a lasting legacy, seems determined to create a massive social change like that of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 Aug, 2003 at 12:19 in
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By Paul Tuns The Interim
What is arguably the most influential medical journal in the world has announced that it will publish more studies on embryonic stem cell research in order to build more public support for such science.
New England Journal of Medicine editor Dr. Jeffrey M. Drazen was quoted recently in the Boston Globe as saying that, "Nothing is better for a field than true progress, to be able to say, 'We can do ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 Aug, 2003 at 9:16 in
Marriage and Family, Paul Tuns, Society & Culture | Author:
By Paul Tuns The Interim
Two coalitions are doing legal battle against same-sex "marriage" as Ottawa fiddles.
An Interfaith Coalition of the Catholic Civil Rights League, Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, Ontario Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Islamic Society of North America announced it is appealing the June 10 Ontario Appeals Court ruling in Halpern v. Canada, which redefined marriage to include same-sex partners. The coalition is seeking leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jul, 2003 at 7:14 in
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From the editor's desk Paul Tuns
Twenty-five years ago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn delievered his landmark commencement speech at Harvard, "A World Split Apart." In what was one of the 20th century's most famous and poignant commencement addresses, Solzhenitsyn offers a reminder to conservatives of just what it is that they seek to conserve.
Later released as a book and commented upon in numerous newspaper columns and magazine articles, it was considered by many observers ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jul, 2003 at 6:24 in
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By Paul Tuns The Interim
According to Campaign Life Coalition New Brunswick president Peter Ryan, the June 9 elections in his Atlantic Canadian province offered tremendous hope for pro-lifers across the country.
The elections saw Progressive Conservative Premier Bernard Lord's huge majority shrunk from 46 seats to 28, in the 55-seat provincial legislature.
Ryan told The Interim that the bare majority should make for a more intriguing couple of years, but ones in which politicians of all stripes ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Mar, 2003 at 11:41 in
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By Paul Tuns
Organizers say at least 200,000 pro-life citizens, including many from Canada, braved the freezing cold weather to take part in the March for Life in Washington D.C., marking the 30th anniversary of the infamous Roe v. Wade decision, on Jan. 22.
Despite media guesses of the number of pro-lifers attending the march being anywhere from "a few thousand" to "tens of thousands," Nellie Gray, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 26 Jan, 2003 at 8:38 in
Abortion, Paul Tuns | Author:
Analysis by Paul Tuns
'You shouldn't always believe what you read in newspapers'
It is axiomatic that you shouldn't always believe what you read in the newspaper. And so it is with a recent National Post story, headlined by this screamer: "78% favour abortions rights."
The poll of just 608 people, conducted by Compass and commissioned by Global and the Post, was part of a larger poll on freedom of the body. The set of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Nov, 2002 at 13:16 in
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Paul Tuns
In our culture, turning 30 is an important milestone. But unlike those who dread the idea of beginning one's third decade, I've wanted to turn 30 since my late teens. I had rebelled against the infantile beliefs of youth that led to sayings such as "Don't trust anyone over 30."
Youth has long excused frivolity, but I escaped such a condition when I became a father in my graduating year at high ... (Continue reading)
Written on 5 Oct, 2002 at 13:35 in
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Paul Tuns
It is partly because of laziness, and partly because there is so much on which to comment, that I offer less a column than a number of notes, observations and questions:
Reacting to an Alberta priest's decision not to allow a Planned Parenthood employee to get married in his church, Planned Parenthood Alberta executive director Melanie Anderson told the Medicine Hat News that, "I think ... (Continue reading)
Written on 5 Sep, 2002 at 7:20 in
Book Review, Paul Tuns | Author:
Paul Tuns
A History of Canadian Catholicism by Terence J. Fay (McGill University Press, $27.95, 400 pages)
Terence J. Fay is a Jesuit priest and author of A History of Canadian Catholicism. The latter fact you would know from looking at the cover of the book. The former is impossible to find anywhere in the book, so great are the efforts to hide Fay's religious affiliation. Not that he is embarrassed to ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 Jul, 2002 at 13:12 in
Abortion, Paul Tuns | Author:
Paul Tuns
In May, the House debated the private member's motion (M-392) of Garry Breitkreuz (CA, Yorkton-Melville), which sought to have the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights review the current definition of human being to comply with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, with the hope of including the unborn child under Criminal Code protections.
Predictably, abortion supporters from the Liberal, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 Jun, 2002 at 7:58 in
Bioethics, Paul Tuns | Author:
Paul Tuns
Charles Krauthammer is a Uruguayan-born, McGill University-educated medical doctor cum Washington D.C.-based political pundit whose work appears regularly in the American press. An ethnic Jew (it is unknown whether he practices) and confined to a wheelchair, he is a moderate conservative who has reservations about embryonic stem cell research. However, in the April 29 issue of The New Republic, he laid out the secular ... (Continue reading)
