Rory Leishman
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Written on 16 Nov, 2011 at 11:26 in
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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 28 Oct, 2011 at 7:56 in
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Rory Leishman In an article entitled “The two-minus-one pregnancy,” published in The New York Times on Aug. 10, Ruth Padawer examined the case of Jenny, a mother of healthy twins, who had one of her babies aborted because she did not feel up to the responsibility of caring for two new infants.
How could any mother justify such lethal selfishness?
Jenny explained: “If I had conceived these twins naturally, I wouldn’t have reduced this pregnancy, because you felt like if there’s a natural order, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 21 Sep, 2011 at 11:12 in
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It is, and always has been, a serious criminal offence in Canada for anyone to counsel or assist another person to commit suicide. Time and again, the advocates of euthanasia have vainly tried to get Parliament to change that law.
In the most recent attempt, former Bloc Quebecois MP Francine Lalonde introduced a private members’ bill into Parliament in 2009 that would have authorized any medical practitioner to kill or assist in killing ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Aug, 2011 at 12:53 in
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The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition has good reason to commend the unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel of the Ontario Court of Appeal in the Rasouli case on June 29, which holds that physicians have no right in Ontario law to withdraw life support from a patient without the consent of the patient or a qualified substitute decision-maker.
Hassan Rasouli is a patient at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, who has been in a coma ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Jun, 2011 at 8:43 in
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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 10 May, 2011 at 6:03 in
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Every year since 1976, the United States Congress has adopted the “Hyde Amendment,” a legislative enactment banning the use of federal funds to pay for abortions except in the case of rape, incest or danger to the life of the mother. In addition, most of the states likewise ban public funding for abortions.
Within the United States, these measures have widespread public support. In a typical nationwide survey conducted last year, the independent ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Apr, 2011 at 11:58 in
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While campaigning for president in 2008, Barack Obama repeatedly stated his opposition to same-sex marriage. That, to say the least, was a deception.
While purporting to uphold traditional marriage as the union of a man and a woman, Obama said he would vote to repeal the Defence of Marriage Act (DOMA), a statute signed into law by former President
Bill Clinton that allows any state to refuse to recognize the legality of a so-called ... (Continue reading)
Written on 26 Mar, 2011 at 16:51 in
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Rory Leishman In an interview with the CBC broadcast on Jan. 18, Prime Minister Stephen Harper indicated that he would go on opposing any legislative restrictions on abortion, even if the Conservatives were to win a majority of the seats in Parliament in the next federal election. “If you want to diminish the number of abortions,” he said, “you’ve got to change hearts and not laws.”
That argument is absurd. If Canada had no ... (Continue reading)
Written on 22 Feb, 2011 at 7:41 in
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On Jan. 10, Orville Nichols was in a state of shock: He knew he might lose in a ruling that day by a panel of the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal in the Marriage Commissioners Reference, but he probably was not expecting to lose by an overwhelming five to nothing decision.
Nichols is a devout Baptist who has served as a marriage commissioner in Saskatchewan since 1983. Having performed more than 10,000 marriages without ... (Continue reading)
Written on 10 Jan, 2011 at 11:31 in
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From a pro-life perspective, President George W. Bush may have been less than perfect, but in comparison to his successor, he is looking ever better.
Bush devotes an entire chapter of his compelling memoir Decision Points to the controversial decision he announced in a televised address on Aug. 9, 2001, to authorize federal funding for embryonic stem cell research using only existing stem cell lines. Bush recalls that he did not arrive at ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Nov, 2010 at 7:39 in
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In unilaterally striking down three key provisions of the Criminal Code, that prohibit the operation of houses of prostitution in Canada, on Sept. 28, Madam Justice Susan Himel of the Ontario Superior Court indulged in an illegitimate exercise of raw judicial power. Her ruling overturned the law, distorts the Constitution of Canada and violates the fundamental separation of legislative and judicial powers essential to freedom and democracy.
Of course, Himel sees matters differently. In ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Jul, 2010 at 5:16 in
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On May 14, a three-judge panel of the Ontario Divisional Court unanimously delivered in Ontario Human Rights Commission v. Christian Horizons another blow to freedom of religion in Canada. This ruling could have a devastating impact on Christian organizations involved in everything from providing disaster relief overseas to operating pregnancy crisis centres here at home.
The complainant in this case, Connie Heintz, was a support worker for Christian Horizons, a charitable organization of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 22 Jun, 2010 at 6:32 in
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Under intense public pressure, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty may have withdrawn his government’s revised curriculum guidelines on sexual education for a “serious rethink,” but this battle is far from over. Proponents of ever more explicit sexual education for young school children have been quick to mount a concerted counterattack. They commend the revised curriculum for proposing to normalize homosexuality in Grade 3, instruct youngsters on vaginal lubrication in Grade 6 and warn ... (Continue reading)
Written on 10 May, 2010 at 11:49 in
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On April 1, Britain’s Guardian newspaper reported that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown had commended the Roman Catholic Church as “the conscience of the nation.” Given the record of the Brown government, informed readers might well have dismissed the story as an April Fools Day prank.
Yet the report was accurate. With a general election impending on May 6, Brown told the British magazine Faith Today that “the Catholic communion in particular is ... (Continue reading)
Written on 9 Apr, 2010 at 5:46 in
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Iain Duncan Smith, former leader of the British Conservative party, has written a major policy paper on the family, in which he urges his parliamentary colleagues to single out married couples for special tax benefits. It’s an excellent idea that politicians in Canada should be no less eager to embrace than their British counterparts.
Not so long ago, special benefits for married couples were a commonplace feature of tax and social policies throughout ... (Continue reading)
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