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The attack on CPCs
Two of our four stories on our cover feature, "The attack on CPCs," are online. "The campaign against CPCs" focuses on a NARAL study that calls crisis pregnancy centers "fake clinics." "Toronto Star attacks crisis pregnancy centres" is pretty self-explanatory. (Continue reading)
40 Days for Life in Canada
A record nine Canadian cities will have 40 Days for Life starting September 22. There's a story at LifeSiteNews and here are the links for each Canadian location: Calgary, Alberta; Edmonton, Alberta; Winnipeg, Manitoba; Sudbury, Ontario; Perth, Ontario; Ottawa, Ontario; Montreal, Quebec; Moncton, New Brunswick; Halifax, Nova Scotia. In May, we wrote about the success of the Spring 40 Days for Life campaign in Toronto. (Continue reading)
Canada supports foreign abortions
This is not really news. The Globe and Mail reports: Despite its refusal to consider abortion in its maternal-health plan, the Harper government has given financial support to an international agency that provides abortion illegally in some African countries. A number of things to clarify. I'm not crazy about the fact that Canada funds abortion abroad, but there is no hypocrisy in not including abortion as part of maternal health whilst paying for abortion as part of other foreign aid programs. Abortion is ... (Continue reading)
Discovery Channel hostage situation
Reuters and CNN have reports on the hostage situation at Discovery Channel headquarters. As Business Insider reports about James Jay Lee, the man who has explosive strapped to himself and taken hostages at DC HQ: "He is an anti-capitalist Malthusian who wants the Discovery Channel to stop any programming that promotes capitalism, human birth, progress..." Lee's11-point manifesto includes this: 2. All programs on Discovery Health-TLC must stop encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants and ... (Continue reading)
Full Interim archive is now online
It's taken a year, but every issue and every article from The Interim, since 1983, is now online. We'll be highlighting some interesting articles over the next week or so. Here are the archives. (Continue reading)
We’ll be back blogging mid-week
Our esteemed editor is in Ottawa until Wednesday. We'll be updating the main site with the last of the August issue and first stories from our September issue. For now, check out Michael Coren's column on `Family Values` from the August issue. Also, Rick McGinnis on `The Shrinking Male`about how men are portrayed in the media. On Monday, we`ll have a story on the rape exception to abortion. (Continue reading)
Social liberal could cost GOP chance at Senate
A pair of Rasmussen polls are demonstrative of the political power of social conservatism in U.S. politics. In Illinois, the Republicans have a pro-lifer, Bill Brady, challenging the incumbent Governor Pat Quinn. Brady is leading Quinn, an abortion rights suppoters, by a decisive 48%-35%. This will be a great pickup for the Republicans, and pro-lifers. In the Illinois Senate race, the Republicans picked a "moderate" to be their standard-bearer and Mark Kirk is predictably trailing Democrat Alexi Giannoulias ... (Continue reading)
ESCR decision
Yesterday I noted that U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth blocked federal funding of embryonic stem cell research and I wanted to expand on that today. Judge Lamberth found that Barack Obama's relaxed regulations on ESCR funding -- which jumped from $40 million during the Bush administration to nearly three times that number today -- violated federal statutes restricting research that depends on the destruction of human embryos. As the Wall Street Journal reported the main rational for the decision: The government ... (Continue reading)
We’ll return Wednesday
Today we were finishing off the September issue. Larger than usual (24 pages compared to the typical 20, 16 pages in the Summer months) and I couldn't find the time to blog. I'll get back to blogging on Wednesday. In the meantime, enjoy some good news from the U.S. on the decision by Judge Royce Lamberthof U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., to block federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. (Continue reading)
Abortion is often just a symptom
Andrea Mrozek explains that the linear trajectory of binge drinking to bad decisions to abortion is a sign that "we are raising our girls wrong." (Continue reading)
International pro-life conference, Oct. 28-30
The International Pro-life Conference, entitled "Building A Global Culture Of Life," is co-sponsored by Campaign Life Coalition and the International Right to Life Federation, and will be held in Ottawa, October 28-30. LifeSiteNews.com has an article on the just-announced lineup of speakers. You can register online here or call CLC at 1-800-730-5358. In the September issue, we have an interview with Catholic novelist Michael O'Brien, who will be the luncehon speaker on October 30. We also interview Brad Mattes, a pro-life speaker who ... (Continue reading)
Daycare and child development
"'Research unclear on how daycare affects child development"is a must-read column by Andrea Mrozek, manager of research and communications at the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada, in today's Montreal Gazette, succinctly explaining a lot of data from a recently released study. Mrozek concludes by making an important point: The childcare research field does not lend itself to unequivocal statements, or easy guilt-free policy solutions. Advocates of daycare selectively read studies to point to data that supports the notion that institutional care ... (Continue reading)
Discussing campus free speech with John Carpay
My interview with lawyer John Carpay, who represents the pro-life students at the University of Calgary, is online. The Q&A will also appear in the forthcoming (September) issue of the The Interim. (Continue reading)
Capehart, Olson on SSM
The Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart says that conservative lawyer Ted "Olson delivers a succinct and eloquent rebuttal to conservative arguments against same-sex marriage." You can read Olson's words for yourself, but notice that they don't really rebut the conservative argument against SSM, but rather merely repeats standard liberal talking points about allowing gays to marry (it's a matter of equality and it is unAmerican to deny two people who love each other to marry one another, blah, blah, blah). Generally, ... (Continue reading)
Reminder: Dance for Life in Toronto
Info is here. (Continue reading)
- Ottawa cuts funding for CFSH
- HRC industry is becoming ever more irrelevant
- Many vaccines use aborted baby tissue
- Person of the Year Ezra Levant, foe of human rights commissions
- 9/11 on screen
- Why the abortion law was changed
- Expert in palliative care discusses realities of euthanasia, assisted suicide
- The costs and consequences of abortion
- Lynch defends the indefensible CHRC
- A lesson in selling out your principles
- Media Briefs (1)
- Election Briefs (1)
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