Issues
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Written on 7 Aug, 2018 at 6:57 in
Politics, Society & Culture | Author:
Stefano Gennarini Special to The Interim UN ambassador Nikki Haley has followed lead of Trump administration in keeping abortion out of recent statements.
A disagreement over abortion between the Trump administration and European governments has set the stage for a showdown in the UN General Assembly this fall. At issue is the inclusion of various phrases used to support abortion ... (Continue reading)
Written on 7 Aug, 2018 at 6:53 in
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Calvin Freiburger Special to The Interim A coalition of Canadian companies and a Christian student ministry are taking Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government to court over its requirement that they declare support for legal abortion and other political stances in order to participate in the country’s summer jobs program.
The Canada Summer Jobs Program offers money to groups that hire students for summer positions. In a break from previous years, it now requires participating organizations to sign an attestation that their “core mandate” agrees ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jul, 2018 at 8:13 in
Human rights, Religion, Sex Education, Society & Culture | Author:
Interim Staff Bill Whatcott and others infiltrated the 2016 Toronto Pride parade to distribute pamphlets describing the dangers of homosexual activity.
Christian activist Bill Whatcott, 51, of Leduc, Alberta, surrendered himself to the Calgary policy on June 22, following the Toronto Police Service issuing a Canada-wide arrest warrant for charges related to hate-crime complaints.
In ... (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 8:01 in
Politics, Religion, Society & Culture | Author:
Interim Staff On June 15, in a 7-2 ruling, the Canadian Supreme Court found that the law societies of British Columbia and Ontario have the power to refuse to accredit law school graduates of Trinity Western University because the Christian school’s community covenant binds students to a code of conduct, that among other things, includes abstaining from sex outside of heterosexual marriage. The Court found that the religious rights of TWU ... (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 30 Jul, 2018 at 7:50 in
Human rights, Politics, Religion | Author:
Mark Wegierski It is argued that a return to true federalism – i.e., strengthening the role of provinces and regions in Canada – may lead to a more balanced society in the future.
While there is no returning to the Old Canada which existed “before the ‘60s,” it is possible that the “New Canada” could reach out to incorporate some better aspects of the Old Canada, to create a new synthesis, “Canada Three,” rather than continue on the path of ever-intensifying left-liberalism.
What is ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Jul, 2018 at 7:44 in
Abortion, Conscience Legislation, Politics, Pro-Life, Society & Culture | Author:
Tim Den Bok A common strategy employed by “pro-choice” advocates today is to claim that women in Canada have the constitutional right to abortion. For example, Justin Trudeau, speaking in 2014 before he had yet become Prime Minister, said: “Since 1988, the Supreme Court of Canada has affirmed that a woman’s right to choose in this matter is part of her fundamental rights and freedoms…. And Canadians need to count on the fact that Liberals, with our votes, will defend women’s rights and ... (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 24 Jul, 2018 at 18:59 in
Pro-Life, Profiles, Society & Culture | Author:
Interim Staff Eric McLuhan was one of The Interim's first columnists
Eric McLuhan, son of the famous Marshall McLuhan, was a renowned scholar of media in his own right, and used his expertise to help the pro-life cause. Eric McLuhan, a former columnist for The Interimand popular pro-life speaker, passed away May 18 in Bogota, Colombia, where he had just delivered the inaugural speech ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Jul, 2018 at 18:56 in
Pro-Life, Society & Culture | Author:
Eric McLuhan Human life, with which “pro-life” is primarily concerned, has perhaps forty or four hundred dimensions. I will mention four only. We have physical life – that in common with animals and vegetables, which forms we choose to imitate from time to time. We have social life – that also in common with animals, fish, birds, insects and perhaps dozens of other things (but let us draw the line short of plants: we must make some distinctions, somewhere). We have mental ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Jul, 2018 at 18:50 in
Aid to Women, Pro-Life, Profiles | Author:
Interim Staff Dick Cochrane was a Spitfire pilot, lounge singer, and founder of Aid to Women.
Campaign Life Coalition national president Jim Hughes recalls that his friend Richmond (Dick) Cochrane lived an extraordinary and varied life that began in India in 1925 and ended in Canada 92 years later with stops as a Spitfire pilot in the India and ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Jul, 2018 at 18:42 in
Pro-Life, Profiles | Author:
Mary Ellen Douglas Kingston pro-life activist Lidwien Grafe talks to Campaign Life Coalition national president Jim Hughes
After a lengthy battle with cancer, Lidwien Grafe, 81, died June 13 at Providence Care Hospital in Kingston.
I first met Lidwien in 1971 when we attended an organizational meeting to discuss the killing of unborn children following the passing of the Omnibus Bill ... (Continue reading)
The background
Pope Paul VI
There was a great deal of moral tumult in 1968. The sexual revolution was in full swing, with Playboy founder Hugh Hefner declaring the year before, “I am in the center of the world.” Canada legalized divorce and was on the verge of legalizing contraception and homosexual acts, and permitting abortion-on-demand. Three years earlier, in the Griswold decision, the United ... (Continue reading)
Editors’ note: These are excerpts from the encyclical Humane Vitae.
God’s Loving Design
Married love particularly reveals its true nature and nobility when we realize that it takes its origin from God, who “is love,” the Father “from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named.”
Marriage, then, is far from being the effect of chance or the result of the blind evolution of natural forces. It is in reality ... (Continue reading)
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