Issues
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
Announcements, Features, Issues, Profiles | Author:
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 31 Jul, 2011 at 18:12 in
Society & Culture | Author:
Paul Tuns
Three Ontario Appeal Court justices indicated they do not accept the government’s rationale for maintaining restrictions on the sex trade, and may be open to upholding a 2010 Ontario Superior Court decision that found those restrictions threaten the security of prostitutes.
Last Fall, Justice Susan Himel threw out Canada’s restrictions on the sex trade – communicating for the purpose of prostitution, living on the avails of prostitution, and keeping a common bawdy house -- saying they violated the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 31 Jul, 2011 at 18:10 in
Pro-Life | Author:
Patrick Craine Special to The Interim After 28 months of uninterrupted imprisonment for witnessing outside a Toronto abortion facility, pro-life prisoner of conscience Linda Gibbons was set free June 3.
The great-grandmother had been in prison since January 2009, when she was arrested outside the downtown Toronto Scott Clinic abortuary, which is protected by a 1994 court “temporary” injunction banning pro-life activity within a specified zone.
She has remained behind bars because she refuses to accept a bail condition that requires her to stay away from the abortion ... (Continue reading)
Written on 31 Jul, 2011 at 18:09 in
Society & Culture | Author:
Patrick Craine and Paul Tuns A 12-year-old in Ontario cannot go on a school field trip without parental permission, or drink alcohol without a parent present. They won’t be able to drive, buy cigarettes, or vote for years. But they can get an abortion all on their own, without their parents ever knowing.
Private abortion facilities across Ontario advertise with pride that they will do abortions on girls under 16 without informing their parents.
Because Canada’s laws do not stipulate an age of consent for abortion, the only places ... (Continue reading)
Written on 31 Jul, 2011 at 18:07 in
Religion | Author:
Rebecca Millette Special to The Interim Quebec’s La Marche chrétienne (Christian March) on June 4th drew a crowd of around 1,000 in defense of the province’s Christian heritage against the radical secularism being imposed by the province.
The marchers, led by a huge wooden cross with the words “On marche avec Jesus” (“We walk with Jesus”), left the Plains of Abraham mid-afternoon en route to the National Assembly, Quebec’s provincial legislature.
Participants of all ages were joined by Christian clergy ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Jul, 2011 at 8:22 in
Pro-Life | Author:
Linda Gibbons Special to The Interim Editor’s Note: This is a letter dated May 7 from Linda Gibbons to Campaign Life Coalition national president Jim Hughes after Fr. Ted Colleton died and while Gibbons was still in jail. It is reprinted with permission.
Greetings in the God of All. Comfort. I pray this finds each of you well and blessed in your labours for life.
I’m sorry Father Ted is not joining you at the March for Life dinner this ... (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 28 Jun, 2011 at 17:15 in
Society & Culture | Author:
Pauline Kosalka Large-scale daycare centres and programs do not appear to be improving the educational outcomes of children. Economics professor Pierre Lefebvre of the Université du Québec à Montréal conducted research between 1994 and 2006 on children under five from Quebec and the rest of Canada that showed Quebec’s heavily-subsidized provincial daycare system, which costs parents just $7 per day, is not advancing children’s development as the government claims it does.
In fact, there is a “serious quality problem” asserts Lefebvre. “I would ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Jun, 2011 at 17:13 in
Euthanasia | Author:
The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association filed a lawsuit challenging Canada’s ban on assisted suicide. The suit was filed in the province’s Supreme Court on April 26 on behalf of Lee and Hollis Johnson. The couple took Lee’s mother, 89-year-old Kay Carter, to Switzerland in January 2010 to have her killed by lethal injection, a crime that is punishable in Canada by up to 14 years imprisonment. According to the lawsuit, Section 241 of the Criminal Code, which prohibits counseling ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Jun, 2011 at 17:12 in
Euthanasia | Author:
Thaddeus Baklinski Special to the Interim Swiss voters rejected a proposal to ban assisted suicide and suicide tourism in the Canton (political district) of Zurich.
In a referendum on May 15, about 85 per cent of voters in Zurich rejected a proposal to end legalized assisted suicide while about 78 per cent rejected a separate proposal to stop the practice of suicide tourism by foreigners in their Canton.
Two conservative political parties, the Evangelical People’s Party and the Federal Democratic Union, supported the referendum, promoting palliative care as ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Jun, 2011 at 17:10 in
Religion | Author:
Interim Staff The federally funded Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent on Recordings (FACTOR) has drawn criticism over its financial support of a punk album that features anti-Christian artwork. Canadian punk group Living with Lions’ new album, titled “Holy S**t,” features cover art that looks like a Bible, is subtitled “The Poo Testament,” and depicts Christ as excrement. Black Box Recordings, Inc. received $13,248 from FACTOR.
“The content of this CD is offensive and the fact that it is clearly designed to offend a group ... (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)
