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Written on 24 Aug, 2012 at 17:16 in
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Harley Price No one denies that something radically new was fecundated in the mud of Woodstock. But whatever it was, it was not from the marriage of true minds. Taking their cues from the Orwellian discourse of revolution (war is peace; dictatorship is democracy), the sexual rebels prettified lust as love. For all of their free-thinking and iconoclasm, they lacked the courage to forgo such a sentimental and bourgeois evasion. Under love’s sweet auspices, they rehabilitated into a virtue what had always ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Aug, 2012 at 17:00 in
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A survey of the headlines shows us our crises at a glace: in addition to mounting economic turmoil, growing unemployment, and spiraling debt, there is the simmering international kulturkampf which has emerged in the aftermath of the pax Americana. The world is broke and broken: insolvent sovereign powers have segmented the world into mutually opposed spheres of influence. And these twin dilemmas have cast a dark pall over the dawn of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Aug, 2012 at 6:34 in
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John-Henry Westen Special to The Interim Canada Day celebrations in the nation’s capital were given a new twist this year as youth activists with the New Abortion Caravan descended on Ottawa with billboard-size abortion images. At 2 pm on June 30, they formed a funeral procession and delivered a white child’s coffin to 24 Sussex Drive – the residence of Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
“Today we are presenting Prime Minister Harper, as the elected leader of our country, with ... (Continue reading)
Written on 1 Aug, 2012 at 14:06 in
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Interim Staff Over the past three months, pro-life activists have been physically assaulted by abortion supporters, a sign, pro-lifers say, that their message is hitting a nerve.
In Thunder Bay, Ont., in June, the New Abortion Caravan saw a man berate three pro-life activists as he poured chocolate milk over them. A few days later in London, Ont., a group of pro-abortion activists confronted the New Abortion Caravan and attempted to destroy the image ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jul, 2012 at 7:43 in
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Paul Tuns On June 13 Bill 33, a private members bill in the Ontario legislature that would add “gender expression” and “gender identity” to the Ontario Human Rights Code and give special legal protection to people who self-identify as transgender and transsexual, passed with all-party support in an unrecorded vote.
Opponents of Bill 33 and similar bills at the federal level have called the amendments to human rights legislation the “Bathroom Bill” because among other consequences it would allow men access to female ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jul, 2012 at 7:36 in
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Pauline Kosalka Provinces across Canada are seeking to adopt anti-bullying legislation after a series of high-profile cases in which bullied students committed suicide. In light of these recent developments, a new report by the Institute for Marriage and Family Canada evaluates the overall effectiveness of anti-bullying legislation. “The limits of anti-bullying legislation” by senior researcher Peter Jon Mitchell warns that lawmakers are introducing such laws with little evidence that they work and without adequate ways to monitor their outcomes.
The report acknowledges that ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Jul, 2012 at 14:25 in
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Pauline Kosalka Mark Donnelly’s rendition of the national anthem at the launch of The New Abortion Caravan drew criticism from a Yahoo! Sports columnist.
Donnelly is a Vancouver opera singer who is well-known for singing the anthem at NHL hockey games for the Vancouver Canucks. While acknowledging that Donnelly is a practicing Catholic and his brother is a priest, Harrison Mooney, the Yahoo! Columnist, still finds this “an incredibly divisive and public stance for someone ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Jun, 2012 at 8:45 in
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Review Pauline Kosalka Problem Gambling in Canada by Lorne Tepperman and Kristy Wanner (Oxford, $21.95, 240 pages)
The Ontario government recently announced its plans to overhaul the provincial gambling system. According to Finance Minister Dwight Duncan, this would increase revenue and job opportunities. The overhaul would include a new casino in the Greater Toronto Area, an expansion in lottery ticket sales and slot machines, and the creation of an online gaming site. While Ontario and ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Jun, 2012 at 18:26 in
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Matthew Wojciechowski After a two year hiatus, Campaign Life Coalition returned to the United Nations on April 23-27, 2012, to attend the Commission on Population and Development in the 45th session of the UN’s Economic and Social Council. The theme of the meeting addressed “Adolescents and Youth.”
Together with other pro-life non-governmental organizations (NGOs) such as the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children and Manhattan Right to Life, CLC assisted the Holy See ... (Continue reading)
Written on 11 Jun, 2012 at 8:35 in
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Pauline Kosalka But religious school system still flirts with gay activism
The Waterloo Catholic District School Board will not establish gay-straight alliances (GSAs) in its schools. after a controversy flared up following Catholic trustee Anthony Piscitelli’s introduction of a motion on April 23 asking trustees to consider creating GSAs. He received support from one other Catholic trustee, Janek Jagiellowicz.
The chair of the board, Manuel da Silva, later requested that Piscitelli withdraw the motion. Piscitelli complied with the request, because, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 May, 2012 at 8:31 in
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Pauline Kosalka A new report recommending the installation of three “safe-injection sites” in Toronto and two in Ottawa is setting off a public debate. The findings of the four-year study, Toronto and Ottawa Supervised Consumption Assessment, were released on April 11 by researchers Ahmed Bayoumi (at St. Michael’s Hospital’s Centre for Research on Inner City Health) and Carol Strike (at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health).
The theory presented by the report is that drug-injection sites decrease HIV and ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 May, 2012 at 8:27 in
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Pauline Kosalka On March 19, over 2,000 people joined the protest in front of the Alberta legislature in Edmonton regarding the Progressive Conservative government’s proposed Alberta Education Act (Bill 2), which is now shelved due to the election. Albertans, including homeschooling families and Christians, were concerned about the provision in Section 16 of the bill requiring all instructional materials in schools, including private and home schools, to “reflect the diverse nature and heritage of society in Alberta, promote understanding and respect for ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 May, 2012 at 5:58 in
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Rick McGinnis The premise of the documentary The Other F Word is that there’s something outlandish, even implausible, in the spectacle of a man who’s made his living and his name as a punk rock musician taking on the role of a father. It’s an idea made visible by the image on the film’s poster and DVD packaging, of Lars Frederiksen from the punk band Rancid, with his hair dyed in leopard spots, ... (Continue reading)
What is the proper role of a judge in a constitutional democracy? Prior to the 1970s, there was no dispute over this issue within the legal professions of Canada and the United States: Almost all lawyers, law professors and judges agreed that, in essence, a judge should interpret and apply established legal principles, while respecting the exclusive authority of elected representatives of the people in the legislative branch of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Apr, 2012 at 13:08 in
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Steve Jalsevac Special to The Interim
On Feb. 15 of last year LifeSiteNews announced, much to the shock of our readers, that LifeSiteNews and five of its staff are the subject of a $500,000 lawsuit from a self-professed ‘pro-choice’ Quebec Catholic priest, Fr. Raymond Gravel.
Fr. Gravel, a former Member of Parliament, who was forced by the Vatican to leave politics, argued that LifeSiteNews’ coverage of some of his more controversial public statements amounted to “libel.” He was ... (Continue reading)
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