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Written on 7 Aug, 2018 at 7:53 in
Announcements, Features, Josie Luetke, Politics | Author:
Josie Luetke Talk Turkey Josie Luetke
Not-so-breaking news: The Progressive Conservatives won the Ontario election and nine pro-life PC candidates whom CLC green-lighted now have seats in the legislature. I’m sure their activities will be closely monitored and reported on over the next four years, so at least for this column I want to direct my attention to those pro-life candidates who didn’t win, especially those who ran as ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jul, 2018 at 8:11 in
Human rights, Marriage and Family, Religion, Rory Leishman | Author:
National Affairs Rory Leishman National Affairs Rory Leishman
In a significant seven-to-two ruling in Masterpiece Cake Shop Ltd. v. Colorado on June 4, the Supreme Court of the United States struck down a ruling by the Colorado Civil Rights Commission that a Christian baker had no right in law to refuse on grounds of sincere religious conviction to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.
That baker can count himself lucky to live in ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jul, 2018 at 8:04 in
Joe Campbell | Author:
Joe Campbell Light is Right Joe Campbell
"I’m learning about the virtues,” Bimson said.
“The virtues?” Molder replied.
“You know,” said Bimson, “temperance, liberality, justice, fortitude, that sort of thing. I’m taking a short course in ethics.”
“It’s easier to learn about the virtues than to practice them,” Molder said.
“That’s what our instructor told us,” said Bimson. “So each time he introduces a new one, our assignment is to find a ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jul, 2018 at 7:55 in
Conscience Legislation, Human rights, John Carpay, Politics, Religion | Author:
Law Matters John Carpay Law Matters John Carpay
You know a court ruling is bad when judges deliberately ignore the evidence placed before them. But reality was brushed aside in the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision to repudiate, nullify, and revoke the fundamental Charterfreedoms of Trinity Western University (TWU), its staff, and its students.
According to the justices, Charter-protected freedom of religion was narrowed only to what a religion “absolutely requires,” not ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Jul, 2018 at 19:10 in
Announcements, Features, Rick McGinnis, Society & Culture | Author:
Amusements Rick McGinnis
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, a film widely regarded as one of the best and most important in the history of cinema. I’m not here to dispute this judgment – I’m a big fan of the film, and have been since my brother-in-law took me to see a road show screening during its 10th anniversary. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 18 Jun, 2018 at 19:29 in
Joe Campbell | Author:
Light is Right Joe Campbell Light is Right Joe Campbell
Am I ever naive. I used to think that overeating is about catering to an unruly appetite. It isn’t. It’s about promoting world peace. Because of it, thousands fail to qualify for military service every year. They’re too fat to fight.
Of course, only a quarter to a third of adult North Americans are obese. Never mind. If present trends continue, before ... (Continue reading)
Written on 18 Jun, 2018 at 7:56 in
Rory Leishman, Society & Culture | Author:
National Affairs Rory Leishman National Affairs Rory Leishman
On April 23, Alfie Evans, an infant afflicted with a devastating neurodegenerative brain disease, was removed from a life-sustaining ventilator in Liverpool’s Alder Hey Children’s Hospital over the strenuous objections of his parents. Five days later, he died aged 23 months.
Notwithstanding all the rumours and misinformation beclouding this intensely controversial case, there is general agreement that Alfie was severely handicapped. On Feb. 20, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 10 Jun, 2018 at 19:32 in
John Carpay, Sex Education, Society & Culture | Author:
Law Matters John Carpay Law Matters John Carpay
Supporters of mandatory gay-straight alliances (GSAs) in schools want to have their cake and eat it too. On the one hand, they insist that GSAs are merely peer support groups and harmless social clubs, which do not indoctrinate kids into any political or sexual agenda. On the other hand, they object to parents being notified if their kids are exposed to sexual content ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 Jun, 2018 at 6:40 in
Election, Josie Luetke, Politics | Author:
Talk Turkey Josie Luetke Talk Turkey Josie Luetke
I’m well aware that by the time you read this, the Ontario election may have already passed. If that is the case, then, if you live in Ontario, you have the next four years or so to mull over these words. With the dropping of Tanya Granic Allen as a Progressive Conservative candidate, though, I just couldn’t resist the urge to say something, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 1 Jun, 2018 at 9:38 in
Announcements, Features, Rick McGinnis | Author:
Amusements Rick McGinnis Tom Wolfe (Photo Rick McGinnis)
Reading the obituaries for writer Tom Wolfe, who died last month, it’s hard not to think of the overused word “enigmatic,” which seems odd for a man who was neither reclusive nor reticent with his opinions. Wolfe flamboyantly embodied a collection of contradictions that only seem unusual now that his sort of public intellectual seems to be passing from existence.
In a ... (Continue reading)
Written on 15 May, 2018 at 12:25 in
Human rights, Josie Luetke | Author:
Talk Turkey Josie Luetke
On March 20, 2017, famed white supremacist Richard Spencer declared, “We should recognize that the pro-life movement – this is not the alt-right, this has nothing in common with identitarians … Pro-lifers want to be radically dysgenic, egalitarian, multi-racial human rights thumpers – and they’re not us.”
In response, I commented on my Facebook wall, “Well, thanks! I never expected to be so sincerely ... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 May, 2018 at 12:54 in
Announcements, Features, Politics, Rick McGinnis | Author:
Amusements Rick McGinnis Maybe it’s some remnant of our tribal past, but it’s hard for us to leave behind some impulse to fear and vilify whoever lives one village over, beyond the river or in the next valley. We might think we’re sophisticated, cosmopolitan people, but this nascent tribalism is never far from the surface, and I saw it re-emerge with a roar during recent municipal elections here in Toronto.
... (Continue reading)
Written on 14 May, 2018 at 12:18 in
Religion, Rory Leishman, Sex Education | Author:
National Affairs Rory Leishman
Paul McHugh, University Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry in the John Hopkins School of Medicine, relates in Try to Remember: Psychiatry’s Clash Over Meaning, Memory and Mind, that he has often put this question to himself and others over the past few decades, having “repeatedly witnessed how faddish misdirections of thought and therapeutic practice sweep across the field to dominate opinion and action for years, only ... (Continue reading)
Written on 9 May, 2018 at 12:14 in
John Carpay, Politics, Pro-Life | Author:
Law Matters John Carpay Law Matters John Carpay
Banning peaceful pro-life protests near abortion facilities is not about freedom of expression, claimed Alberta’s Health Minister Sarah Hoffman at a recent news conference. Yet she went on to say that her new law has been carefully crafted to withstand a constitutional challenge.
Why is the Minister preparing to withstand a constitutional challenge? Because she knows full-well that her new law tramples on ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 May, 2018 at 7:46 in
Joe Campbell | Author:
Light is Right Joe Campbell Light is Right Joe Campbell
Is it wrong to discriminate? I hope not, because I do it all the time. I discriminate on the basis of race, sex, sexual orientation and religion, among other grounds.
I hate cassava and plantains, so I refuse to patronize African restaurants. It’s not the African cooks I discriminate against. It’s their cooking. You know, love the cook, hate the cooking. I ... (Continue reading)
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