Society & Culture
Written on 31 Mar, 2007 at 5:42 in
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Commentary by Suzanne Fortin The Interim For years, we social conservatives have complained about the liberal bias in the media and the lack of coverage of issues of concern to us. And so we threw up our hands and sucked it up, figuring there was nothing we could do about it.
In this day and age, we no longer have an excuse.... (Continue reading)
Written on 31 Mar, 2007 at 5:40 in
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Commentary by Mark Wegierski The Interim For far too long, the interests of the “vital centre” of Canadian society have been neglected. The term vital centre, while borrowed from American liberal thought, takes on a much different meaning in social conservative thinking. By vital centre I mean the real social mainstream – those decent, honest and hardworking people of whatever class, religion or ethnic background on whom the real perpetuation of our ... (Continue reading)
Written on 31 Mar, 2007 at 5:36 in
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Theresa Smyth Family and Society Reporter Notwithstanding inconclusive evaluations of its success, Liberal party leader Stephane Dion has praised Vancouver’s supervised drug injection facility and promised that as prime minister, he would support mayors of other cities who want to establish similar projects.
Relying on favourable information from the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS – including a notable study from November 2006 – Dion made ... (Continue reading)
Written on 31 Mar, 2007 at 5:33 in
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Commentary by Donald DeMarco The Interim It is a rare event when the secular press carries a Christian conversion story. Such an event, therefore, should be given additional attention.
On Jan. 27, Canada’s National Post carried Dawn Eden’s conversion story under the slightly indelicate title, “Between my sheets, a lonely world.” It is both heartwarming and heartrending. Coming home, at long last, to the Catholic church is always a heartwarming story, but oftentimes, learning ... (Continue reading)
Written on 31 Mar, 2007 at 5:31 in
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Analysis by Paul Tuns Interim Editor
For several weeks in February, the Globe and Mail appointed itself the official opposition to the federal government, running numerous articles, columns and editorials criticizing the process by which the Conservative government of Stephen Harper is choosing judges.
Last year, the government amended the composition of the federal Judicial Advisory Committees that examine government nominees to ... (Continue reading)
Written on 31 Mar, 2007 at 5:25 in
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Paul Tuns A Canadian representative to the United Nations, originally appointed under the previous Liberal administration and now supposedly acting under the direction of the current Conservative government, berated delegations from several Muslim countries for opposing the observer status of a Quebec-based gay activist group.
The National Post reported on Feb. 2 that the Coalition gaie et lesbienne du Quebec (CGLQ) was rejected by the committee that approves non-government organization ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Feb, 2007 at 13:51 in
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Pete Vere Senior Reporter
It was the first time I had been physically attacked for being a pro-life activist or a reporter. “You’re that guy from The Interim,” said the assailant with a snear. His name was Brad Hexum: he was young, muscular and renowned in local professional wrestling circles for his ill temper and even worse attitude. He shoved me to the ground and starting kicking me.... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Feb, 2007 at 13:47 in
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Hilary White Reporter Editor’s note: Due to the author’s overarching desire to re-establish to the postmodern West such qualities as morality, civility and the classical modes of rhetoric, she has replaced in the following all quoted uses of the word under discussion with “eff,” with appropriate grammatical derivations thereof.
That “eff,” “effing,” “eff off,” “eff about” and “eff up” have entered the general lexicon through the popular entertainment ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Feb, 2007 at 12:31 in
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Tony Gosgnach Assistant Editor He’s done it again.
Before retiring this spring at the age of 75 – despite never having even been a judge or practising lawyer before attaining the pinnacle of the judiciary in his province – Ontario Chief Justice Roy McMurtry has taken one more kick at the traditional family structure by ruling, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Jan, 2007 at 13:21 in
Religion, Society & Culture | Author:
Tony Gosgnach Assistant Editor
A Burlington, Ont.-based organization, which will be the recipient of funds raised at the Feb. 10 With Love Comes Hope concert in Hamilton, is working in 51 countries around the world to combine education and mission with the goal of ensuring everyone has access to Christian education.
Worldwide Christian Schools was founded in the mid-1980s in Grand Rapids, Mich. and ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Jan, 2007 at 13:18 in
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Doreen Beagan Atlantic Canada Correspondent
P.E.I. and Nova Scotia were the last two Canadian provinces to prohibit widespread Sunday shopping. P.E.I.’s pharmacies, corner stores and similar small operations have long been permitted to open on Sundays, but large retailers were restricted to the last four weeks before Christmas. Nova Scotia’s beleaguered government abandoned the battle this fall after a court permitted large retailers to ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Jan, 2007 at 13:17 in
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Theresa Smyth Family and Society Reporter
“Will the shofar be blown in the city and the populace will not tremble?” (Amos 3:6)
When Rabbi Yehuda Levin blows the shofar at Washington’s annual March for Life, he is continuing a two-decade tradition there, initiated by Jews for Morality. And by using a ram’s horn on each anniversary of Roe v. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Jan, 2007 at 13:05 in
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Pete Vere Senior Reporter
“Did I hear you gentlemen say, ‘Pro-life’?”
She was the only woman in the restaurant in which I happened to be grabbing a late lunch with CLC Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. secretary Bill Murphy. We had crossed the St. Marys River to Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., where our friend Tony Stackpoole owned and ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Jan, 2007 at 13:03 in
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Oswald Clark Economics Reporter
Last Fall, federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said that his government intends to introduce pension splitting for seniors and that the Conservatives are open to income splitting for couples. The idea is to let couples split their income between them to pay lower taxes as a unit than the higher income earner or pensioner would individually. Presently, Canadians are taxed as individuals and the larger income ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Jan, 2007 at 12:45 in
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Commentary by Thomas Bray The Interim
A new day has arrived for those of us who believe in the pro-life cause in Canada. We all remember the days when Human Life International had its charity status revoked for alleged political activity, while other pro-life groups were harassed by what is now known as the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency.... (Continue reading)
