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The disappearing family
Our November cover story on the decline of the traditional family in Canada is now online. It looks at two recent reports, one by the Vanier Institute for the Family and another by the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada. Bottom line: the glass is half-full/half-empty because the family as defined as married mom, dad and 2.1 children is disappearing but the ideal still exists. (Continue reading)
Human Rights Commission to consider abortion funding in NB
The New Brunswick Human Rights Commission will hold hearings on whether the province's abortion funding policy is a violation of the human rights of women. The National Post and Telegraph-Journal have reports. Under New Brunswick's Medical Services Payment Act the province will only pay for abortions committed at hospitals and which are referred by a family doctor. The NB HRC is not making public who filed the complaint but abortion advocates and feminists complain that the restrictions are ... (Continue reading)
Roxanne’s law — first hour of debate
Yesterday, Bill C-510, Rod Bruinooge's private member's bill that would add "coercion of pregnant women to abort" to the Criminal Code, had second reading. The bill is also known as Roxanne's Law. LifeSiteNews covered the debate. We have written about Roxanne's Law previously. Andrea Mrozek wrote in the Calgary Herald that C-510 should not be controversial -- how can so-called pro-choice advocates oppose legislation that would penalize those who coerce women into having abortions? Yet, they do. Mrozek writes: New ... (Continue reading)
Two Hitchens
Rick McGinnis reviews recent books by the Hitchens brothers (The Rage Against God by Peter Hitchens and Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens) in the October Interim. Here's a sample, on Hitch-22: If the book ends weakly, it’s largely because, after dropping names for several hundred pages, he expresses his contentment at ending up in the company of a “party of positive non-belief” – anti-religious proselytisers such as Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins, the latter a man possessed of undeniable ... (Continue reading)
Go vote pro-life
Ignore the background noise This was released by Gary Bauer, noted conservative leader in the United States: This is it, folks -- Election Day. If you have not already voted, please go out and do so right now. We are getting too many reports of low turnout in Republican areas of the country. This morning, Howard Dean confidently predicted that Democrats would hold on to the House because the Left’s ground game would swamp us. We can’t let that happen. This may or may ... (Continue reading)
US election notes
Pro-life victory The midterm elections will result in a massive repudiation of Barack Obama and his liberal friends in Congress. Most of the backlash against Democrats is rooted in opposition to the overreach of the health care reform bill and much of that opposition was based on the overreach to include federal funding for abortion. It will be more difficult for Obama to impose his pro-abortion agenda when the Republicans gain control of the House of Representatives tomorrow and ... (Continue reading)
Report from international pro-life conference
LifeSiteNews.com reports on the goings-on of the Building a Global Culture of Life conference taking place in Ottawa Thursday through Saturday. John Smeaton's speech sounds like it was a real barn-burner; we ran a feature on Smeaton and Dr. Jack Willke and the more than three-quarters of a century pro-life experience they have between them in the October issue. Dr. Willke is a featured speaker on Saturday. (Continue reading)
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The atheist delusion
I have noted contributor Harley Price's blog running commentary about The Atheist Delusion in past posts. I want to draw your attention to part three of his series. Samples from his latest critique of Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins: Dawkins is already a post-speciesist, of course. He really does regard the killing of a baby in the womb as ontologically and morally indistinguishable from the killing of a cow in the slaughterhouse... And: In ridiculing the Church's unprogressive moral doctrines, therefore, Dawkins and Hitchens are not ... (Continue reading)
International Pro-Life Conference in Ottawa
One week from now the Building a Global Culture of Life conference in Ottawa will be winding down. Here is the conference schedule. You can register here. The hotel where the conference is being held (Hampton Inn Hotel and Conference Centre) is all booked, but the Chimo Hotel is just a five-minute drive from the conference centre and they have a few spots open under the International Pro-Life Conference. Call 1-800-387-9779 or (613) 744-1060 to book your reservation. ... (Continue reading)
The dangerous Alfred Kinsey
WorldNetDaily reports: Nearly 70 years after being molested repeatedly by her own father, "Esther White" (a pseudonym) is speaking out in hope of prompting Congress to investigate the controversial research. White said she would be willing to testify in person on Capitol Hill if an investigation results in opening the Kinsey Institute files to public scrutiny. When his "research" wasn't actually threatening the physical safety and psychological well-being of his subjects (and indirectly, their families and partners), Alfred Kinsey's ideological crusade ... (Continue reading)
A call to arms
Andrea Mrozek in C2C Journal on the impending full decriminalization of prostitution: While honest citizens must protest the current situation — minors and trafficked women in “massage parlours” — it is just as important to protest the pending complete decriminalization. Greater freedom will not be the outcome. Rather, those fighting for good in our country will have fewer tools at their disposal, and possibly, the force of the law directed against them. And to add greater impetus to getting involved, Mrozek ... (Continue reading)
Ottawa is the happening place
Next week is the international pro-life conference in Ottawa (October 28-30). Two of the feature speakers, Dr. Jack Willke and John Smeaton, have more than three-quarters of a century experience between the pair of them. We write about them in the October Interim. On October 30, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is having a fundraising dinner to honour Ezra Levant and featuring Mark Steyn. Take in both events. (Continue reading)
‘What is the government’s position on funding foreign abortion?’
Article from the October edition is now online: "What is the government’s position on funding foreign abortion?" Here's the bottom line from that article: The government has failed to clearly articulate what it is up to: is there abortion funding through CIDA or third parties that is not included in its maternal health initiative? While the government has resisted pressure to include abortion in its G8 initiative, it has not been forthright in what other aid ... (Continue reading)
For those who don’t like (certain) pro-life messages
Writing about the pro-life students are Carleton University who were arrested for taking part in the Genocide Awareness Project, Michael Coren says in the forthcoming (November) Interim which goes to press later this week: If anybody walking past the display didn’t agree with it they only had to do what social conservatives have been told to do for decades every time they complain about pornography on television or obscene behaviour. Turn away. Don’t look. Ignore it. Odd how when more conservative individuals are ... (Continue reading)
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