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Yale and eugenics

paul — Mon, 28 May 2012 15:15:23 +0000

Arnold Kling points to the cleverly titled article “God and White Men at Yale” by Richard Conniff in The Yale Alumni Magazine. It’s both a general history of eugenics and the work of Yale economist Irving Fisher. Conniff writes: By the late 1920s, 376 American colleges were offering courses in eugenics. The army of enthusiasts included, [...]

Politics of pro-life in the US

paul — Wed, 23 May 2012 13:35:12 +0000

Via Twitter Michael Taube brought this Gallup poll to my attention. Here is the bottom line: 41% of Americans who now identify themselves as “pro-choice” is down from 47% last July and is one percentage point below the previous record low in Gallup trends, recorded in May 2009. Fifty percent now call themselves “pro-life,” one [...]

Jim Hughes reflects on the National March for Life

paul — Tue, 22 May 2012 16:39:23 +0000

Campaign Life Coalition has a short video interview with CLC national president Jim Hughes in which he reflects on the National March for Life, especially the presence and influence of the large number of youth at the event.

Talking about the HRC’s hierarchy of victims

paul — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:51:54 +0000

Kathy Shaidles talks with Brian Lilley on Sun News about the human rights commission industry and the hierarchy of official victims (whites and Christians at the bottom). Well worth the nine minutes it takes to watch. They also talk about Catholic schools being bullied into accepting gay-straight alliances and Shaidle says that “next week it will be [...]

Suppressing the abortion debate

paul — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:44:37 +0000

An excellent column by the Ottawa Citizen’s David Warren on the lack of abortion debate and how impossible it is to have a discussion on this matter, mostly due to the hysterical reaction of those on the pro-abortion side. Warren says: There is no avoiding the issue, except through suppression. The pretence that the commission of an [...]

March for Life reflections

paul — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:31:08 +0000

Lou Iacobelli at Everyday for Life Canada has some thoughts on last week’s record-breaking National March for Life. Dunn Media has a short video that captures the March, both on Parliament Hill and in the streets. We’ll have extensive coverage of the March in the forthcoming June edition of the paper.

Media is finally noticing pro-life youth

paul — Wed, 09 May 2012 18:46:47 +0000

The Toronto Star took notice of the growing number of young people involved in the pro-life cause with a front-page article in today’s paper. Good for them. The article is fair and balanced, but there is a factual problem with the second paragraph: Pro-lifers will rally on Parliament Hill by the thousands Thursday for the [...]

Andrew Coyne on necessity for an abortion debate

paul — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:08:08 +0000

On the weekend, National Post columnist Andrew Coyne wrote about the need for an abortion debate in Canada. It is worth reading, especially his point that even feminist justice Bertha Wilson — the only Supreme Court justice to say there is a right to an abortion — could countenance restrictions on abortion. The obvious, though only implied question [...]

Parliament ‘debates’ motion to debate when life begins

paul — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:06:47 +0000

Yesterday, Stephen Woodworth’s motion (M-312) had it’s first hour of debate in the House of Commons. (Coverage from LifeSiteNews, the National Post, Toronto Sun, Globe and Mail, Maclean’s, and CTV, which does a decent enough job providing the main points of view on each side). The pro-abortion side is not making very good arguments, just the [...]

Woodworth motion debate begins

paul — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:12:23 +0000

Stephen Woodworth’s motion (M-312) calling upon Parliament to examine when human life begins and what consequences that finding might have for Canadian law is set for the first hour of debate today. We wrote about M-312 in the April issue of The Interim and editorialized about Woodworth’s audacious effort in February. (You can find all our coverage [...]

Great work of Catholic Missions of Canada

paul — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:35:40 +0000

Catholic Missions of Canada is an Interim advertiser. We are a pro-life paper and they are a Catholic charity so while we have slightly have different missions, so to speak, but we are very supportive of one another because in the Grand Scheme of things, we are on the same page. As a Catholic I appreciate the [...]

Desperate Alberta Tories

paul — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:23:58 +0000

This editorial appears in the forthcoming edition of the print version of The Interim: The Alberta Tories’ 41-year reign appeared to be coming to an end with the April 24 election (held after we went to press). The upstart and more conservative Wildrose Party was leading in the polls. While Wildrose is not a pro-life [...]

Judge to pro-lifer: “Your God is wrong”

paul — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 02:32:17 +0000

Here is an interesting video of Ezra Levant talking to Russell Browne and Peter Boushy about the case of pro-life activist Mary Wagner and how the judge, Justice S. Ford Clements, told her “Your God is wrong.” Boushy, who is leading the appeal, says the judge was excessive in sentencing Wagner to a punishment that was greater [...]

Opposition to McGuinty’s gay activist ‘anti-bullying’ bill

paul — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:05:38 +0000

A group of concerned parents and parental rights groups held a press conference at Queen’s Park yesterday to discuss the Liberal government’s Bill 13 (concerns about the bill were addressed on this blog yesterday). The Toronto Sun and Sun News were the only media to cover the event. The Toronto Sun reported: Kim Galvao, chair of Concerned [...]

Rally against McGuinty’s Bill 13

paul — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:15:18 +0000

Tomorrow (March 29) there will be a rally at Queen’s Park to protest the Ontario Liberal government’s Bill 13, the so-called anti-bullying bill that is a Trojan horse to normalize homosexuality and attack parental rights and religious freedom. It lasts from 2pm to 3pm so drop in and support the cause for at least some portion [...]