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Written on 14 May, 2013 at 10:45 in
Announcements, Features, Politics | Author:
Stephen Woodworth
The Interim has learned that Stephen Woodworth will be presented with Campaign Life Coalition’s Joseph P. Borowski Award, which is presented to a politician who has demonstrated outstanding commitment to the cause of protecting innocent human life. Woodworth will be presented with the Borowski Award at the Rose Dinner on May 9 following the National March for Life and he is being recognized for his work on ... (Continue reading)
Written on 6 May, 2013 at 9:42 in
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Paul Tuns On April 14, the Liberal Party selected two-term MP, and son of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, Justin Trudeau as their new leader. He received more than 80 per cent of the points allotted through the race’s weighted, preferential vote system, almost ten times more than second-place finisher Joyce Murray, a Liberal MP from Vancouver Quadra that advocated electoral cooperation on the Left with the NDP and Greens.... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Apr, 2013 at 7:30 in
Abortion Law, Politics | Author:
Patrick Craine and Paul Tuns MP Mark Warawa’s motion to condemn sex-selection abortion was declared non-votable March 21 in the ongoing joint effort by Canada’s Conservative government and opposition parties to keep the abortion debate out of Parliament.
The question was brought up unexpectedly at the Sub-Committee on Private Members’ Business on the day the government released its budget for 2013, meaning parliamentary reporters are “locked up” and unavailable to report on the issue.
The sub-committee vote, believed to be at the instigation of the Prime Minister’s ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Apr, 2013 at 7:22 in
Human rights, Politics | Author:
Interim Staff In a 149-137 vote, C-279, a private member’s bill that would add amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and hate crimes law by adding gender identity and gender expression to the specially protected classes of people, passed Parliament on March 20 and will now move to the Senate. In 2011, a previous version of the bill passed the House but died in the Senate when the federal election was called.
All NDP, Liberals, Bloc Quebecois members, and Green Party MP Elizabeth ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Apr, 2013 at 16:14 in
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On March 13, a Member of Parliament visited the University of Waterloo to make an address to a group of students. In the middle of his speech, this elected representative was interrupted by a handful of protesters, one of whom was not even a student at the university. But campus police did not intervene during this disruption, so the speech was cancelled and the audience dispersed. The university ... (Continue reading)
Written on 9 Apr, 2013 at 13:38 in
Announcements, Book Review, Features, Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns May 2 will mark the second anniversary of the federal Conservatives winning a majority government, which in turn was five years after the Stephen Harper-led party won the first of two minority governments. The seemingly momentous political shift is the subject of several recent political books, analysing what happened in that election and what could/should happen in the future. One should be cautious about simple narratives purporting to ... (Continue reading)
Written on 2 Apr, 2013 at 11:45 in
Announcements, Features, Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns Editor’s Note: Material in this article might offend some readers.
On March 13, pro-life MP Stephen Woodworth was forced to cut short his talk to a group of students at the University of Waterloo when nearly a dozen abortion activists interrupted his speech, took control of the microphone, and started to use vulgar language to make their point.
Woodworth was about one third through his presentation at an event organized ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Mar, 2013 at 16:27 in
Columnist, Frank Kennedy, Politics | Author:
Frank Kennedy The good news is that Premier Dalton McGuinty is no longer the premier of Ontario. I hold that he effectively quit being the premier of Ontario last Fall when on October 15 he announced that he was stepping down and prorogued the legislature indefinitely. But McGuinty carried on the day to day business of the legislature as if he still held the keys to power.
If the MPPs can’t meet and ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Mar, 2013 at 16:32 in
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Peter Baklinski Special to The Interim “Don’t let yourselves go the way of Ontario’s tyranny,” one pro-family group is warning the citizens of Manitoba in response to a new “anti-bullying” bill introduced in December by the NDP government. Critics say that Bill 18, following upon the heels of McGuinty’s very similar Bill 13, which passed in Ontario last June, is more about pushing the homosexual political agenda on students than fighting bullying
“McGuinty’s bill really had nothing at all to do with protecting children from bullying,” Jack ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Mar, 2013 at 15:04 in
Announcements, Columnist, Features, Michael Coren, Politics | Author:
Journalist for Life Michael Coren Kathleen Wynne - openly gay Premier of Ontario
In case nobody has noticed, Ontario has a new premier. The most significant province in Canada found itself with a new leader, and more than 99 per cent of Ontarians hadn’t voted for her; they couldn’t because they weren’t given a chance. Liberal leader Dalton McGuinty resigned, and a couple thousand Liberal hacks and zealots got together to party and to elect someone ... (Continue reading)
Written on 15 Mar, 2013 at 10:33 in
Abortion, Announcements, Features, Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns Maurice Vellacott - Saskatoon-Wanuskewin (left), Wladyslaw Lizon - Mississauga-Cooksville (centre), and Leon Benoit - Vegreville-Wainwright (right).
On January 23, three Conservative MPs wrote a letter to RCMP commissioner Bob Paulson calling for a criminal investigation into the deaths of 491 babies born alive after abortions but left to die. The deaths occurred between 2000 and 2009.
Last Fall, the Run with Life blog reported that according to official mortality numbers from Statistics ... (Continue reading)
Written on 12 Feb, 2013 at 16:08 in
Announcements, Features, Politics | Author:
Analysis Paul Tuns Justin Trudeau once said he could support Quebec separatism over abortion and same-sex 'marriage.'
In 2011, the Liberal Party suffered their worst ever federal election result, dropping to third place with a mere 34 seats. Never before had the one-time Natural Governing Party been relegated to third party status, so Michael Ignatieff stepped down as leader the day after the election, Bob Rae became the interim leader, and the search for ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 Feb, 2013 at 9:13 in
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Interim Staff Justin Trudeau’s campaign stop at St. Charles College, a Catholic high school in Sudbury, was criticized by pro-lifers, defended by the local bishop, cancelled, and then held anyway.
Trudeau, who supports abortion, same-sex “marriage,” and has criticized the hierarchy of the Catholic Church as “old men,” was scheduled for a campaign-style visit at St. Charles Dec. 21, just before the Christmas break. Local and national pro-life activists condemned the visit as a “grave scandal” during which Trudeau could recruit Catholic youth ... (Continue reading)
Written on 11 Jan, 2013 at 8:50 in
Announcements, Features, Fetal Rights, Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns Mark Warawa launches his campaign to have Parliament condemn gendercide during a Dec. 5 press conference.
Immediately after Stephen Woodworth’s M-312 was defeated in September, Conservative MP Mark Warawa (Langley) announced he was introducing a private member’s motion condemning the practice of sex-selective abortion. The motion – which expresses the view of the House of Commons and does not affect any law – states “that the House condemn discrimination against females ... (Continue reading)
Written on 1 Jan, 2013 at 9:44 in
Announcements, Features, Politics, Profiles | Author:
Paul Tuns Stephen Woodworth
Seldom do Canadians discuss the status of preborn life. Parliament has not examined issues associated with abortion or matters related to or touching upon it, in a substantial way, since Brian Mulroney was prime minister. But thanks to the efforts of a Conservative backbench MP, for nine months, Canadians, their political representatives, and the media talked about whether or not the current law that defines a child in the ... (Continue reading)
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