Society & Culture
Written on 23 Oct, 2009 at 8:44 in
Abortion, Society & Culture | Author:
Interim Staff
In an attempt to address concerns about expanding abortion coverage that might result from changes to the U.S. health care system, Senator Max Baucus (D, Montana), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, amended his proposed bill to say that abortion cannot be mandated by the Department of Health and Human Services. The change echoes an amendment proposed by Rep. Lois Capps’ (D, Calf) ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Oct, 2009 at 10:20 in
Events, Paul Tuns, Pro-Life, Society & Culture | Author:
Paul Tuns In September, the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children held its national conference in conjunction with the annual meeting of the International Right to Life Federation. Conference participants were thus treated to international experts from all corners of the globe who spoke about the challenges to defend human life at all stages.
SPUC, which describes itself as the world’s first pro-life pressure group, held its conference at the Hayes Conference Centre in Derbyshire, England, several hours north of London. Jim ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Sep, 2009 at 15:08 in
Society & Culture | Author:
Paul Tuns A new study released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control on August 19 found that vaccines for the human papillomavirus (HPV) have caused 12,424 adverse reactions after more than 23 million doses have been administered in the United States since 2006. Most were classified as “non-serious” – fainting, headaches, rashes – but 772 were serious including anaphylaxis (life-threatening allergic reactions), blood clots, pancreatic failure and motor neuron disease. There have also been 32 reported deaths.
HPV vaccines, distributed in North ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Aug, 2009 at 5:45 in
Columnist, Corporate Watch, Society & Culture | Author:
Tony Gosgnach Some of America’s leading billionaires met secretly recently to consider how their wealth could be used to “slow the growth of the world’s population.” Attending on the initiative of Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, they discussed joining forces to overcome political and religious obstacles to change. Other participants included David Rockefeller Jr., the patriarch of America’s wealthiest dynasty, Warren Buffett and George Soros, the financiers, Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Aug, 2009 at 5:07 in
Events, Society & Culture | Author:
Jenna Murphy
At a time when the affronts to life at every stage are enough to leave one’s head spinning, a group of summer interns at Campaign Life Coalition, the political arm of the Canadian pro-life movement, has decided to put its energies into hosting an uplifting charity event for all ages: a fashion show celebrating the dignity of each human life. All ... (Continue reading)
Written on 15 Aug, 2009 at 7:07 in
Columnist, Frank Kennedy, Society & Culture | Author:
Frank Kennedy It’s helpful to learn, in these difficult financial times, the problems we share with the very wealthy, who have to experience getting along on considerably less income. Ruth Madoff is one of those persons, the celebrity wife of an epic swindler, Bernard Madoff, a financial adviser who was found guilty of purloining $170 billion in a gigantic Ponzi scheme. Her husband’s estimated annual income was $75 million. Bernard was recently ... (Continue reading)
As the huge costs of caring for Canada’s rapidly aging population become ever more apparent, more and more Canadians are finally beginning to realize that the collapse of the birthrate in Canada over the past 40 years threatens the economic prosperity of future generations.
In a recent report, “Faster, Younger, Richer? The Fond Hope and Sobering Reality of Immigration’s Impact on Canada’s Demographic and Economic Future,” Robin Banerjee and ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Aug, 2009 at 11:43 in
News in Brief, Society & Culture | Author:
From the Editor's Desk A few thing that caught my eye. This editor’s desk column will be, as it often is, less a column delving into an issue than mentioning a couple items that came across my desk, but for which there wasn’t room in the paper.
The leftwing website AlterNet.org had a story by Byard Duncan who wrote about “Maggie,” her university friend in Indiana, who at the age of 22 found herself pregnant. Duncan wrote that the question when Maggie shared this information ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Aug, 2009 at 11:39 in
Columnist, Rick McGinnis, Society & Culture | Author:
Rick McGinnis Vampires are back. Not that they ever went away, but they’ve been given a pop culture revival that strives to make them even more appealing than ever before. For tweens, there are the painfully attractive, but misunderstood, nightwalking misfits of Twilight, the Stephenie Meyer novel that was recently adapted into the first of a series of films, and for adults, there are the infighting and oversexed bloodsuckers of True Blood, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Aug, 2009 at 11:31 in
Editorials, Society & Culture | Author:
Last month, we reported that several Conservative MPs expressed their disapproval of the federal government’s funding of the Toronto Pride Parade, although none of them would go on the record. After we went to press, Tory MP Brad Trost (Saskatoon-Humboldt) told LifeSiteNews.com that most of the Conservative caucus was displeased with the government’s $400,000 grant to Toronto’s annual celebration of homosexuality through the new Marquee Tourism Events Program.
Trost also suggested that Minister of State for Small Business and Tourism Diane ... (Continue reading)
Over the last few months, numerous groups and media outlets have noticed that the world’s population is aging –alarmingly so in the developed world – yet few identified the solution to the problem.
From the business pages of the daily papers to financial advisers, from the International Monetary Fund to the C.D. Howe Institute, alarm bells have been ringing about the rapidly aging populations of Canada, the United States, Japan and Europe. The developing world is also aging, though not as ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 Aug, 2009 at 8:39 in
Abortion, Issues, Religion, Society & Culture | Author:
Interim Staff
More than three months after LifeSiteNews.com broke open the story of the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace (or D&P for short) funding five Mexican organizations that support abortion, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops released a report exonerating D&P of any wrongdoing.
On March 12, LifeSite revealed that D&P, the Catholic bishops’ ... (Continue reading)
Written on 13 Jul, 2009 at 15:33 in
Pro-Life, Society & Culture | Author:
Jenna Murphy The pro-life community suffered a loss with the passing of Dr. Antonio (Tony) Cecutti on April 17, who died in his 82nd year. Cecutti spent his last days surrounded by his family in St. Michael’s Hospital, the institution where he spent his career as an obstetrician and gynecologist.
A 1951 University of Toronto medical school graduate, Cecutti instructed Campaign Life Coalition to interrupt him in his practice at St. Michael’s Hospital – where he eventually rose to chief of staff in ... (Continue reading)
Written on 13 Jul, 2009 at 15:27 in
Across Canada, News Bits, Society & Culture | Author:
Disabilities group opposes euthanasia bill
WINNIPEG – The Council of Canadians with Disabilities has come out against Bill C-384, the private member’s bill of Francine Lalonde (Bloc, La Pointe-de-l’Île) that, if passed, will legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide. The CCD said C-384, the “Right to Die with Dignity Act,” which received first reading in May, puts “Canadians with disabilities at risk.” A press release from the organization stated, “Assisted suicide is not a free choice as long as (people) ... (Continue reading)
Written on 13 Jul, 2009 at 12:50 in
Profiles, Society & Culture | Author:
Joseph Jalsevac
In the 82nd year of his life, on May 23, John L. Bennett passed away, but his memory lingers in the minds of those who knew him. Jim Hughes, national president of Campaign Life Coalition, is one of these, and reminisced with The Interim about his old friend with evident warmth. In the later years of their friendship, they would meet while vacationing in Florida.
Hughes ... (Continue reading)
