Announcements
Written on 5 Jun, 2014 at 6:47 in
Abortion, Announcements, Editorials, Features | Author:
An American poet once defined a “liberal” as a man too “altruistically moral” to “take (his) own side in a quarrel.” Justin Trudeau recently decided that Canadian Liberals, in contrast, are not free to do the same. Trudeau decreed that all future candidates in his party must be unambiguously, categorically, and unapologetically pro-abortion: they may not take the unborn’s side in our country’s current quarrel.
Trudeau’s shocking declaration, made in ... (Continue reading)
Written on 5 Jun, 2014 at 6:33 in
Announcements, Features, Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns Justin Trudeau
On March 7, the day before the National March for Life, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said during a scrum in the halls of Parliament that future candidates for the Liberal Party must support a woman’s right to choose to kill her unborn baby. He said candidates will be screened in the party’s “open nominations” process to ensure they support Liberal policy on abortion and same-sex “marriage,” as ... (Continue reading)
Written on 3 Jun, 2014 at 6:30 in
Announcements, Features, Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns Kathleen Wynne
Ontarians will head to the voting booth on June 12, but pro-lifers are looking at the candidates, leaders, and parties, and finding very little they like.
None of the party leaders are pro-life according to Campaign Life Coalition and no party platform features anything remotely pro-life or pro-family.
Tim Hudak was once deemed supportable by CLC back in the late 1990s when as a member of the Mike Harris ... (Continue reading)
Written on 2 Jun, 2014 at 17:16 in
Announcements, Features, March for Life | Author:
Paul Tuns Positive messages, upbeat crowd, papal message, and more
More than 23,000 pro-lifers were on Parliament Hill to participate in the National March for Life on May 8 – a March that garnered widespread media attention and featured a notable first, a greeting from the Pope.
On May 7, Campaign Life Coalition held a press conference in the Parliamentary Press Gallery in which three of their representatives, Johanne ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 May, 2014 at 16:18 in
Announcements, Features, Movie Review, Rick McGinnis | Author:
Rick McGinnis We are apparently in the middle of another surge of religious films, which is a sure way of telling that Hollywood is losing money and running scared and desperate to pull in the audience they do their best to ignore when times aren’t so lean. Forgive me for sounding cynical, but if you think I’m being bleak, I dare you to name one masterpiece of religious filmmaking made since ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 May, 2014 at 10:46 in
Announcements, Events, Features, Pro-Life | Author:
Paul Tuns Rebecca Kiessling talked about the personhood movement in the United States and what difference personhood laws could make in the abortion debate.
About 200 people attended the Campaign Life Coalition banquet dinner and national convention, entitled, “Every human being deserves equal protection,” at the Woodbine Banquet and Convention Hall ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 May, 2014 at 10:33 in
Announcements, Features, Politics | Author:
Paul Tuns Conservative MP Kyle Seeback said pro-lifers need to look at the individual candidates and their views, and not the party label when deciding for whom to vote on election day.
At the Campaign Life Coalition National Pro-Life Conference April 5, Conservative ... (Continue reading)
The co-sponsors of the Father Ted Colleton Scholarship program, The Interim newspaper and Niagara Region Right to Life, are proud to announce the theme for the essay portion of the contest for the upcoming academic year 2014-2015.
This edition will be the 13th year of the scholarship and it continues to grow and draw young people into the pro-life movement as learners. More than 800 students have participated since its founding.
It is hoped that this challenging ... (Continue reading)
Written on 30 Apr, 2014 at 7:11 in
Announcements, Features, Fr. Ted Colleton Scholarship, Pro-Life | Author:
Shikha Patel Shikha Patel
Editor’s Note: Shikha Patel is a student at Father Michael McGivney Catholic Academy in Markham, Ont., and was second in the Fr. Ted Colleton Scholarship contest.
Canada, the land of the free. We live in a country fundamentally envisioned as a society of diversity, equality, and tolerance. However, upon closer observation, it becomes evident that in order to maintain this equality and prevent certain ideologies from dominating others, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Apr, 2014 at 7:05 in
Announcements, Book Review, Features, Politics | Author:
Review Paul Tuns Memoirs and Reflections by Roy McMurtry (University of Toronto Press, $45, 562 pages)
Late last year Roy McMurtry released his autobiography, Memoirs and Reflections, giving his account of a long and, some would say, distinguished career in public service. McMurtry has played a role in numerous political and legal dramas in this country since the 1960s, taking on bit parts in the leadership races of the federal and provincial Progressive ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Apr, 2014 at 7:55 in
Announcements, Book Review, Features | Author:
Review Rick McGinnis The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way And It Wasn’t My Fault And I’ll Never Do It Again by P.J. O’Rourke (Atlantic Monthly Press, $31.50, 263 pages)
My first argument with any book about the Baby Boomers is with anyone who tries to include me in it, and that would seem to include P. J. O’Rourke. His latest book is about his generation – that cohort born between then ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Apr, 2014 at 7:42 in
Announcements, Features, Joe Campbell | Author:
Joe Campbell Light is Right Joe Campbell
I used to think that I recognized what news is. After all, I spent most of my working life in the news business. I don’t mean to say that I could define news. I wasn’t sure that I could. But like the jurist who wasn’t sure that he could define obscenity, I knew it when I saw it.
Now, however, I seem ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Apr, 2014 at 6:25 in
Announcements, Features, Human rights, Marriage and Family, Rory Leishman | Author:
Rory Leishman On Jan. 30, the Ottawa Citizen reported that three local family physicians were refusing to prescribe birth control pills. Not so long ago, the great majority of Canadians would have responded with an amazed: “So what?”
Not so the anonymous woman who brought this story to public attention. She was incensed when, in response to her request for a birth control prescription at an Ottawa medical clinic, she was given ... (Continue reading)
Written on 16 Apr, 2014 at 12:26 in
Announcements, Events, Features, Issues, Pro-Life | Author:
Paul Tuns
Rebecca Kiessling talked about the personhood movement in the United States and what difference personhood laws could make in the abortion debate.
About 200 people attended the Campaign Life Coalition banquet dinner and national convention, entitled, “Every human being deserves equal protection,” at the Woodbine Banquet and Convention ... (Continue reading)
Written on 15 Apr, 2014 at 6:14 in
Announcements, Features, Health Risks | Author:
Alan Yoshioka A new drug regimen could displace the single-minded promotion of condoms, which has dominated HIV/AIDS prevention efforts for the past three decades. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) consists of daily doses of two antiretroviral drugs taken by people who are not currently infected with HIV.
PrEP has several implications for the pro-life and pro-family movement. First, it would seem a boon in general to HIV-discordant married couples (where one spouse is infected ... (Continue reading)