Society & Culture
Written on 20 Jul, 2006 at 11:40 in
Society & Culture | Author:
Tony Gosgnach
Assistant Editor
An analysis of mainstream media treatment of the recent arrests of 17 Ontario residents on terrorism-related charges is a study in contrasts – contrasts, that is, with media treatment of incidents involving pro-life and “anti-abortion” figures over the years.
The media took great pains to point out that the individuals rounded up after ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Jul, 2006 at 11:38 in
Society & Culture | Author:
Donald DeMarco
The Interim
I was watching a TV broadcast of a game between the Red Sox and the Devil Rays, comfortably insulated, so I thought, from all the trouble and turmoil of the outside world, when their single avenue of invasion into my home, the telephone, began sounding its alarm. It was a long distance call from ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Jul, 2006 at 11:28 in
Editorials, Society & Culture | Author:
Three and a half years ago, same-sex “marriage” was not an issue. Marriage was understood to be the union of one man and one woman and the possibility of its redefinition was not even on the political radar screen. When marriage became an issue in 2003 (that is, when three Ontario judges decided to strike down what may be the oldest legal precedent ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Jun, 2006 at 12:16 in
Columnist, Frank Kennedy, Politics, Pro-Life, Society & Culture | Author:
Frank Kennedy
Queen's Park
So far, Canada’s new Conservative government has done precious little to promote the sanctity of human life, but pro-lifers should not give up on the Conservative party. There is good reason to hope for major pro-life gains from the Harper Conservatives after the next federal election.
Consider what Prime Minister Stephen Harper has already accomplished. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Jun, 2006 at 12:13 in
Abortion, Events, Sex Education, Society & Culture | Author:
Tony Gosgnach
The current, troubled moral state of the Western world vindicates the predictions of the late Pope Paul VI in the 1960s concerning what would happen if the use of contraception became widespread, says one of the world’s leading scholars on the issue.
Speaking at the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Jun, 2006 at 10:24 in
Editorials, Society & Culture | Author:
On Wednesday, May 10, MP Maurice Vellacott resigned from the parliamentary committee he headed because of allegedly“controversial” comments he made to a CBC reporter the previous Friday. This tawdry affair was entirely orchestrated by our public broadcaster, the CBC, in an attempt to tarnish the good name of a fine politician. And, although Vellacott has been humbled by this manufactured ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 May, 2006 at 9:10 in
Columnist, Society & Culture | Author:
View from the Maritimes
Doreen Beagan
Strange creatures come out of hibernation during an Atlantic Canada spring. It starts with the arrival of a bevy of animal rights crusaders to protest the seal hunt. Some are quite exotic by East Coast standards. This year's flock included Pamela Anderson, Brigitte Bardot and Paul and Heather McCartney - all oblivious ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 May, 2006 at 9:07 in
Movie Review, Religion, Society & Culture | Author:
Capote
Directed by Bennett Miller.
Rated: R
Review by Hilary White
Reporter
The Oscar-nominated film Capote opens with a long, still shot of the Kansas prairies creating the backdrop to a solitary farmhouse in which ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 May, 2006 at 9:04 in
Society & Culture | Author:
Samantha Singson
Last month, Ri Kwang-chol, a doctor and defector from North Korea, addressed a human rights panel and stated that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has no people with physical disabilities because they are killed almost as soon as they are born.
Kwang-chol claimed that babies born with physical disabilities were killed in ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 May, 2006 at 8:54 in
Pro-Life, Society & Culture | Author:
Tony Gosgnach
It's being called an issue that has few rivals in terms of controversy in Canada and around the world. It's dominated by bloody images, heated rhetoric and impassioned defences on both sides. Few facts go unchallenged. Language becomes a tool, as words become weapons of outrage or instruments of reassurance. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 May, 2006 at 8:51 in
Society & Culture | Author:
Peter Stock
Until the Jan. 23 federal election, the campaign to legalize drugs in Canada seemed unstoppable. The Chretien-Martin Liberals, whose values were formed in the free-love, pot-smoking 1960s, had already legalized "medicinal" marijuana, opened a government-contracted pot-growing facility and sanctioned a heroin shooting gallery in Vancouver. A Liberal bill to decriminalize marijuana possession was also working its way through Parliament. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 May, 2006 at 8:40 in
Marriage and Family, Society & Culture | Author:
Peter Stock
On April 5, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, the federal broadcast regulator, rendered a bizarre decision, granting a Toronto-area radio licence to a group committed to promoting homosexuality on the airwaves. Rainbow Broadcasting gained the first Toronto FM radio licence issued in more than four years at the expense of many legitimate applicants, including a group hoping for an all-Catholic ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 May, 2006 at 8:38 in
Human rights, Society & Culture | Author:
John Nania
Organs are being taken for transplantation from the living bodies of thousands of detainees in China's labour camps - a big story out of the world's biggest country. Couple this with a current surge in transplant operations being performed in China's hospitals in advance of hastily cobbled-together restrictions on transplants that take effect July 1 and we have a breaking ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Apr, 2006 at 8:32 in
Columnist, Rory Leishman, Society & Culture | Author:
Rory Leishman
National Affairs
Judging from the reputation of Justice Marshall Rothstein, and the answers he gave to the questions put to him in the unprecedented public hearing that preceded his appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada, he should make an excellent addition to the country’s top court.
Asked by Conservative MP Diane Ablonczy to state his views on ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Apr, 2006 at 8:31 in
Columnist, Frank Kennedy, Politics, Society & Culture | Author:
Frank Kennedy
Queen's Park
Watching Judge Marshall Rothstein, our newest Supreme Court justice, perform was like watching Wayne Gretzky in his prime dodge, circle, hide and evade. Wayne had the aid of a hockey cop dressed in a uniform similar to Wayne’s, who was ready to hospitalize any opponent aiming to hospitalize Wayne.
What did we know about ... (Continue reading)
