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Family “Coalition” Strikes Out in Alberta
Terrible Depths comments on new developments in Alberta: Remember when that bogus coalition tried to smack down Beverley McLachlan for her alleged role in getting Henry Morgentaler his Order of Canada? Well, it looks like the religious right is back playing that game again. The subject du jour is the Albertan “parental rights” legislation, which [...]
Preston Manning Fronts for Signal Hill Fronts for Pro Life BC
In Thursday’s National Post, Terry O’Neill published a fluff piece promoting a new pro-life group in B.C., Signal Hill. (He gets around to mentioning that he is actually on the board of Signal Hill, and therefore presumably playing the role more of interested promoter than critical columnist, only midway down the page, and his bio, [...]
News Roundup: Education Edition
Two religious battles over education now appear to be shaping up in this country: one over religious education in Québec, and the other over new parental rights legislation in Alberta. The Albertan controversy, which has been discussed previously on this site as well as at other blogs, is being covered regularly by Big City Lib, [...]
March for Life Hits Ottawa
Today is the annual Campaign Life Coalition demo in Ottawa, March for Life (or, in its present incarnation, Exodus 2009). The anticipated event has received coverage in the Globe and Mail, despite Michael Coren’s complaint in the National Post that the cause is being systematically ignored. Dammit Janet! summarizes some of the media back-and-forth. Are [...]
Finding the Pro-Life Caucus on Parliament Hill
From Terrible Depths: It’s not partisan. It doesn’t have a website. There is a chairman – normally two – and possibly even an independent staff of assistants. It’s been operating on Parliament Hill for the last decade, maybe more, and there still hasn’t been a public listing of its members. The “it” I’m referring to [...]
Honour Killings Test the Canadian Judicial System
Dr. Dawg explores the apparent strategy by Hasibullah Sadiqi to defend his killing of his sister and her fiancée in Ottawa as a matter of honour: the defence team will concede that he indeed shot the couple, but argue provocation… It is not the eventual outcome of the trial that concerns me here. It is [...]
The Religious Right and the Albertan Human Rights Commission
The Stelmach government in Alberta, when it introduced Bill 44 to amend the province’s Human Rights Act, thought it could make great hay out of a new section establishing “parental rights,” which would let parents yank their kids from classes which touched on religion or sexual orientation (whoops… so much for gay rights…). It might [...]
Daily Roundup for May 8, 2009
The Canada Family Action Coalition and Equipping Christians for the Public Square are endorsing Alberta’s Bill 44, which the government initially suggested would allow parents to pull their kids from “evolution classes” on religious grounds. Ezra Levant raised a few eyebrows last week with his deliberately provocative op-ed arguing that the Canadian Jewish Congress was [...]
News Roundup for May 5, 2009
Buckets at Bouquets of Gray points out that new demographic assessments by the Wilson Centre establish that the West is not poised on the brink of “Islamification,” after all (h/t Creative Revolution) StageLeft takes on social conservative Kathy Shaidle’s recent remarks regarding Canada’s human rights commissions Another figure on the religious right, John Pacheco – [...]
Daily Roundup for May 4, 2009
A new website, ContactMPs.com, allows you to spam all Members of Parliament urging them to support a select list of pro-life and pro-family causes (h/t SoCon or Bust, Birchbark Bible) The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada are collaborating to defend the federal Assisted Human Reproduction Act, arguing that if [...]
