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Written on 25 Aug, 2011 at 10:19 in
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Paul Tuns Retired dentist and long-time pro-life activist Ray Holmes used to say that “you haven’t done enough until you can’t do any more.” Campaign Life Coalition national president Jim Hughes said that Holmes lived that credo until the day he died at the age of 93.
Hughes said Holmes was a family man who was married to Rita for 67 years. She passed away in 2010. They had three sons, Jim, David, and Bill, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Aug, 2011 at 10:13 in
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Paul Tuns John J.H. Connors – “The Major” – who died on May 6 answered the prayers of a group of Ottawa pro-lifers when he came into their offices in the 1980s asking how he could help.
Karen Murawsky, a long-time Ottawa pro-life activist and former head of Campaign Life Coalition’s public affairs office in the nation’s capital, told The Interim, that the Western Conference of the Grey Nuns wanted to help Alliance for Life ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Aug, 2011 at 9:59 in
Announcements, Features, Rick McGinnis | Author:
Rick McGinnis For any halfway sensible TV viewer, “reality TV” is usually mentioned with a broad verbal wink, since the inference suggested by its very name is a kind of semantic gag that is presumed to tie viewers and the people who make it together in an agreed complicity. Simply put, the stuff is heavily staged, out of economic and dramatic necessity, and has been since the birth of the genre, which is ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Aug, 2011 at 12:50 in
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Review Paul Tuns Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men by Mara Hvistendahl (Public Affairs, $31.50, 313 pages)
A book authored by Science’s Beijing correspondent has garnered a lot of attention for pointing out that a combination of depopulation ideology, ultrasound technology, and late-term abortion has led to what Mara Hvistendahl has called “163 million missing women,” mostly in Asia where boy babies are valued over girl ... (Continue reading)
Written on 11 Aug, 2011 at 10:11 in
Announcements, Events, Features | Author:
Paul Tuns
It has been 20 years since Campaign Life Coalition held a conference in Toronto (not including national and international conferences they co-sponsored), and by all accounts the June 24-25 Toronto Pro-Life Forum was a resounding success.
Over 220 people attended the Friday evening banquet that featured Sun News media personality Brian Lilley as the keynote speaker, while more than 170 took part in the Saturday program featuring nearly a dozen speakers and panels.
Organizers ... (Continue reading)
Written on 9 Aug, 2011 at 11:18 in
Announcements, Donald DeMarco, Features, Issues | Author:
Commentary Donald DeMarco I am a baseball fan. I appreciate, therefore, the dramatic home run and the superlative play of those privileged individuals who are dubbed All Stars.
Naturally, on the night of July 11, I turned my TV channel to the broadcast of the All Star Home Run Derby. But a strange thing happened. Despite the triadic confluence of baseball, home runs, and All Stars, I soon became bored. And so, by the time Robinson Cano and ... (Continue reading)
Written on 7 Aug, 2011 at 18:56 in
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Paul Tuns Ten years ago, when I was 28 years old, I was named interim Interim co-editor and three months later the editor-in-chief of Canada’s pro-life and pro-family newspaper. During my tenure as the longest serving editor in the paper’s history there have been changes, both cosmetic and philosophical. Rather than being a paper that published pro-lifers who wrote, we became more a publication that published pro-life writers. We have conceived our mission to be more journalistic than activist – reporting on ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Jul, 2011 at 8:35 in
Announcements, Features, Paul Tuns | Author:
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 25 Jul, 2011 at 7:53 in
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Review Rick McGinnis The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture by David Mamet (Sentinel, $32.50, 256 pages)
Even during an apparent renaissance of conservative book publishing, one book has been anticipated more than almost any other this season. Anyone who considers themselves religious will recognize The Secret Knowledge by David Mamet as a conversion story, albeit one told in brief, scattershot chapters, written quickly, like moments of late-night inspiration captured on a notebook ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Jul, 2011 at 8:34 in
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Oswald Clark Commentary
In May, Abacus Data, a new Canadian polling firm that conducts surveys for Sun News (broadcast and print), surveyed 1,007 Canadians about their attitudes on abortion. Pro-lifers should be overjoyed at the results even if they seem to lead to an unjustifiable policy conclusion.
Abacus polled on four questions, but two are worth highlighting. In one question Abacus asked which of two statements most accurately reflected respondents’ views on the abortion debate: ... (Continue reading)
Written on 18 Jul, 2011 at 8:32 in
Abortion, Announcements, Features | Author:
Pauline Kosalka and Paul Tuns While pro-lifers are rightly concerned primarily about abortion because it takes the life of an innocent human being in its earliest and most vulnerable stages, it has also long been clear that abortion harms women and society, too. The victims of abortion, those that pay a price for the easy destruction of the unborn through abortion-on-demand, go far beyond the womb. Multiple studies have shown that abortion has a fundamental impact ... (Continue reading)
Written on 18 Jul, 2011 at 8:18 in
Announcements, Euthanasia, Features | Author:
Interim Staff
The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition’s third annual International Symposium on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide was held in Vancouver, June 3-4 and organizer Alex Schadenberg called it an “incredible success” that “exceeded expectations.”
The conference was entitled “Celebrating our successes; preparing for new challenges,” and to that end Schadenberg, executive director of the EPC, brought together speakers from Australia, Canada, Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States that have been dealing with the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 Jul, 2011 at 10:47 in
Announcements, Euthanasia, Features | Author:
Paul Tuns On June 3, euthanasia advocate and convicted murderer Jack Kevorkian passed away naturally in Royal Oak, Michigan after being hospitalized for difficulties connected to pneumonia and kidney problems. His death occasioned laudatory obituaries in the media that ignored the man’s ghoulish history.
The Detroit News and Washington Post compared him to civil rights heroes, fighting for what the News euphemistically referred to as “death rights.” Broadcaster Barbara Walters complained about the moniker Dr. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 1 Jul, 2011 at 17:48 in
Announcements, Features, Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns
When Tom Wappel was first elected to Parliament in 1988, he recalls that 40 per cent or more of the Liberal caucus was pro-life, or held traditional values.
But by the time he left federal politics and retired as MP for Scarborough Southwest in 2008, he was one of the last remaining pro-life MPs in caucus. The same year, fellow prolife Liberal Paul Steckle (Huron-Bruce) retired from politics.
Judi Longfield, another pro-lifer, lost in ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Jun, 2011 at 8:22 in
Announcements, Features, Marriage and Family, Society & Culture | Author:
Pauline Kosalka Recent attacks on the family often become attacks on fatherhood. For instance, figures from Hollywood have embraced alternative family structures, questioning or mocking the importance of a father figure. Actress Jennifer Aniston in August 2010 said that fathers are unnecessary, especially since now there is no need “to fiddle with a man to have that child.” Another example is the positive portrayal of a lesbian couple raising a family in the movie “The Kids are Alright.” There are too many ... (Continue reading)
