Written on 5 Apr, 2013 at 12:12 in
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Paul Tuns It is just over a month until the National March for Life in Ottawa (May 9). The theme this year is gendercide. The Interim and LifeSiteNews.com have both ran promotional stories. In light of the political maneuvering that took place in recent weeks to scuttle Mark Warawa's private member's motion (M408) and the political fallout, it might seem that a rally and march tied to the issue of a motion deemed non-votable is less relevant, but in fact ... (Continue reading)
Written on 27 Mar, 2013 at 12:40 in
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Paul Tuns Conservative MP Jay Aspin (Nipissing -- Timiskaming) says that his colleague Mark Warawa (Langley) is a "rogue" for bringing up abortion. Last week a parliamentary subcommittee ruled that Warawa's private member's motion, M-408, which would express disapproval of the practice of sex-selective abortion and gendercide, was non-votable. Warawa has been vocal about the decision and the Conservative party's attempt to prevent him from speaking up on the issue. Aspin is not impressed saying: "If these rogue members ... (Continue reading)
Written on 18 Mar, 2013 at 10:56 in
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Interim Staff Here is what Interim editor Paul Tuns wrote at his blog Sobering Thoughts earlier today:
Great point made by Campaign Life Coalition's Jack Fonseca: "Eliminating taxpayer funding for abortions that are not medically necessary is a political position that’s more popular amongst Ontarians than is the Liberal Party, the NDP or Tim Hudak’s PCs. So says a recent AngusReid opinion poll." Now that's because a majority of Ontario oppose taxpayer-funding of abortion. But typically, even the minority position on a ... (Continue reading)
Written on 21 Dec, 2012 at 13:26 in
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Paul Tuns Stephen Woodworth. An obvious choice. It is the only second time The Interim has named a Person of the Year since I've become editor in 2001. The first? Ezra Levant in 2008 when he took on the human rights commission industry. (Continue reading)
Written on 4 Oct, 2012 at 7:47 in
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Paul Tuns Because they tell us a lot about her critics. A great column by the Toronto Sun's Lorrie Goldstein which begins:
The ferocity of the attack on Status of Women Minister Rona Ambrose for voting in favour of a Conservative MP’s motion to study the question of when human life legally begins is not only absurd, it says a lot about the attackers.
Although Goldstein favours maintaining Canada's abortion license he skewers the pro-abortion lobby that finds Ambrose's position of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 2 Oct, 2012 at 8:06 in
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Paul Tuns The Globe and Mail reports on the introduction of a bill on sex-selective abortions:
A second abortion-related motion proposed by a backbench Conservative MP could trigger a new debate about the parameters of a woman’s right to choose in Canada.
Andrea Mrozek responds:
The debate is here. It has not been triggered anew, it is simply here. For many of us, it’s been here for a long while. So we all ought to get used to this ... (Continue reading)
Written on 21 Sep, 2012 at 11:11 in
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Paul Tuns The pro-abortion Radical Handmaids have invited people to join them for a M-312 Debate Viewing Party which includes a drinking game for watching the parliamentary debate. Note that the party is at the Canadian Union of Postal Workers boardroom at their offices in downtown Ottawa.
M-312 is not "anti-choice" as the Radical Handmaids contend. M-312 does not mention abortion. It does not mention reproduction at all. Stephen Woodworth is simply asking Parliament to examine the scientific evidence of when human ... (Continue reading)
Written on 22 Aug, 2012 at 9:14 in
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Paul Tuns Yesterday I noted a new EFC report and recent Claire Hoy column about the Ontario government now refusing to release abortion statistics (under the guise of transparency and accountability -- how Orwellian). Suzanne Fortin at Big Blue Wave has two comments about this topic.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: people who have nothing to hide, hide nothing.
Good point, indeed. Not releasing abortion statistics (simply how often abortions are procured) means not having ... (Continue reading)
Written on 22 Aug, 2012 at 7:41 in
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Paul Tuns Today is the first anniversary of Jack Layton's death and the NDP and left-wing media are milking it to promote his example of tirelessly working to advance the socialist agenda. Of course, that's not how they put it, but that's the point. The average person didn't understand that "Jack" wasn't all about smiles, but rather socialism. To correct the sycophancy of the media coverage, here's an edited version of what I wrote last year after Jack Layton passed ... (Continue reading)
Written on 10 Aug, 2012 at 10:18 in
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Paul Tuns I was going to make this point but Campaign Life Coalition's Matthew Wojciechowski beat me to it: Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he will follow the science only when its convenient. Here's Harper on the Northern Gateway pipeline: “The only way that governments can handle controversial projects of this manner is to ensure that things are evaluated on an independent basis scientifically, and not simply on political criteria.” But when it comes to Stephen Woodworth's motion, M-312, that would ... (Continue reading)
