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National March for Life videos
Dunn Media & Entertainment has four very good videos of the National March for Life in Ottawa last week. We especially encourage educators to look at the fourth video, the one on the youth conference. See also the Campaign Life Coalition video with the reaction from its national president Jim Hughes following the March. (Continue reading)
Iggy’s revisionist politics
The Globe and Mail reports that Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff continues to follow Frank Graves' culture war advice, telling $500-a-plate Liberal supporters in Toronto: "But let’s be clear: we didn’t end the 25-year consensus on a woman’s right to choose. They did." Except that isn't true. It was Ignatieff that brought up abortion in the context of maternal health. The Harper proposal to combat maternal and infant mortality in the developing world was silent on abortion and the Liberal leadership (Iggy, ... (Continue reading)
Abortion good for families: doctor
Suzanne T. Poppema, chairwoman of Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health, writes in a letter to the editor of the New York Times: "As a physician, I firmly believe that women need access to birth control, education and abortion in order for them and their families to flourish ... It’s clear to me that a 'blue state' model — including abortion — is healthier for women and families." Families flourish and are healthier because of abortion ... except for all the child ... (Continue reading)
Canadians want abortion in maternal health: poll
A month ago, Harris Decima found that Canadians were evenly split on whether abortion should be part of the government's maternal health initiative (48% opposed to including abortion, 46% in favour) but now 58% say abortion should be included while just 30% think it should not. The Canadian Press report on the Harris Decima poll: A new poll suggests that a majority of Canadians opposes the Prime Minister's refusal to fund safer abortions in developing countries, even as international concern grows about the ... (Continue reading)
Gov’t healthcare will sacrifice elderly
From Thomas Sowell: Make no mistake about it, letting old people die is a lot cheaper than spending the kind of money required to keep them alive and well. If a government-run medical system is going to save any serious amount of money, it is almost certain to do so by sacrificing the elderly. Real compassion, as Sowell makes abundantly clear in the rest of the column, means spending time with the marginalized, not throwing government programs at them. Only real-live ... (Continue reading)
Thank God newspapers have editors
For years, professional journalists have touted their superiority by noting that they have fact-checkers and editors (which is barely true in many publications today, but that's another issue). This correction in the Toronto Star yesterday, however, shows that even publications that have editors and fact-checkers maybe aren't worth the paper they produce each day: News corrections for May 11 An excerpt from veteran journalist Marci McDonald's new book, The Armageddon Factor, which was published in the Star May 8, incorrectly stated ... (Continue reading)
Pay for your own parade
The National Post has an excellent editorial on the feds nixing funding for the Gay Pride Parade in Toronto. People have asked me why is LifeSiteNews "obsessed" with the possibility of the Toronto Star buying the Post and I only have to point to editorials like this one that provides a rare dissent from the politically correct orthodoxy that finds funding special interest parades a defensible use of taxpayer money. (Continue reading)
Say no to Christmas, Easter shopping
Catholic Insight has issued a statement strongly opposing a proposal in Toronto city council to allow stores to open on Christmas and Easter. Bottom line: "The greedy, the godless, and the childless want to steal the last few holidays from the working and middle classes." The course of action suggested by CI: Please lobby your councillor to vote No to holiday store openings. Boycott stores that do open if vote passes. Mark those who vote “Yes” for defeat in the municipal ... (Continue reading)
Conservative ‘ideology’ and Pride funding
The Globe and Mail reported that the Conservative government was under fire yesterday for refusing to fund Toronto's Gay Pride Parade. “Why does ideology trump economics in this Conservative government?” Brampton Liberal MP Navdeep Bains asked. He was criticizing the decision to cut funding to Toronto’s gay pride parade; last year Ottawa gave the event $400,000 in funding under its marquee tourism program. The parade has a spin-off economic effect in the region, creating 650 jobs and $18-million in tax revenue. The ... (Continue reading)
Universities behaving badly
Our lead May editorial on the student union at McGill placing onerous restrictions on the pro-life club there. The editorial concludes: Thus, by abusing their little brief authority, the SSMU is besmirching McGill’s good name and its prized ideals. The final indignity in this sordid affair, however, is the administration’s refusal to criticize the SSMU’s disgraceful actions. Declining to comment on the situation, a spokesman for McGill said it was a “student matter,” since SSMU is an “autonomous organization.” But ... (Continue reading)
Interim coverage of anti-coercive abortion bill
Extensive coverage of Roxanne's Law from the May issue is now available online. Notable point beyond the confines of this bill is Rod Bruinooge's comment that the backlash against the bill and the PMO's distancing itself from it confirmed the “ineligibility of abortion as a matter to be discussed in Canada.” (Continue reading)
U Cal disgraces itself
Eight pro-life students at the University of Calgary have been found guilty of a major violation under the non-academic misconduct policy. It isn't quite clear what the punishment will be, but it could be a reprimand, it could be an expulsion (and a range of punishments between). “We are going to challenge this verdict,” stated Alanna Campbell, president of Campus Pro Life said they are going to challenge the verdict, continue to defend themselves and assert their free speech rights, but ... (Continue reading)
Remembering an MP who stood on principle
The London Free Press notes that back in 1982, then Liberal MP Garnet Bloomfield was the lone Grit to vote against repatriating the constitution. Bloomfield voted against the Constitution Act of 1982 because it did not protect the right to life. Bloomfield is a tremendously principled politician. He voted against his prime minister and his party on an issue of utmost importance. The LFP reports: And despite defying Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and voting against his own party, Bloomfield has no ... (Continue reading)
Teaching perversion
Rory Leishman is The Interim's national affairs columnist, but he also pens a regular column for the London Free Press. This week he tackles sex ed, not only in elementary and high school but at the university. It is pretty shocking what the University of Western Ontario allows to go in its classrooms. Leishman notes: Sex education on the post-secondary level in Canada is not much better. According to the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 13 of Canada's leading ... (Continue reading)
Canadian bishops speak out against abortion
The Canadian Catholic bishops have spoke out firmly against abortion in a message just days before the 41st anniversary of Canada's day of infamy, the passing of the Omnibus Bill in 1969, in which Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Justice Minister John Turner -- both 'Catholics' -- effectively legalized abortion on demand. Today, the Catholic bishops say civilization itself is under assault from abortion. LifeSiteNews reports: In an advance copy of the message for the May 13 National March for ... (Continue reading)
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