SHOULD JEAN VANIER KEEP HIS ORDER OF CANADA?

Remember when it was announced that Dr. Henry Morgentaler, the Canadian abortion doctor, was to receive the Order of Canada.
All hell broke loose. Several prominent Catholics were so disgusted they returned their own Orders of Canada. Cardinal Turcotte of Montreal. giving back his, said “We are not the master of human life.”
In [...]

SHOULD QUEEN’S APPOINT THOUGHT POLICE?

Queen’s University in Kingston has announced that it will hire six “facilitators” who will listen in on student conversation, ever vigilant against incorrect speech.  These “facilitators will “respond to, stimulate and invite engagement across differences and tensions among and between groups in university residences.”  They will pay special attention to “incidents of bias, prejudice .. [...]

WOULD YOU FAVOUR A COALITION GOVERNMENT?

The opposition parties in Ottawa are threatening to defeat the government Monday night. The main reason is that the government has decided not to bring forward a stimulus package to help the Canadian economy which has now descended into a full-scale recession.
If the government loses Monday’s vote, there are two possibilities. The P{rime [...]

IS ASSISTED SUICIDE EVER JUSTIFIED?

An important trial has just started near Quebec City. It involves a man accused of helping his sick uncle to put an end to his life.
Stepahn Dufour, 30, is charged with aiding his uncle to commit suicide. Chantal Maltais hanged himself in Sept. 2006. Maltais, 49, had suffered from muscular dystrophy since [...]

WHY IS THE U.S. TRANSITION SUCH A MESS?

Remember all the digs at the Canadian election. It was “blah”, “meh” and “borrring”.
Maybe so. But just look at the election in the States. What a mess it is.
The problem is that there is a period of ten weeks between the election and when the new president is sworn in. During [...]

IS THERE A KANGAROO IN YOUR BACKGROUND?

Australian researchers have discovered that kangaroos are genetically similar to humans and may have first evolved in China.
A study centre in Canberra has for the first time mapped the genetic code of the Australian marsupials and found much of it was similar to the genome of humans.
The centre’s director says “There are great chunks [...]

SHOULD A WOMAN SELL HER VIRGINITY?

Throughout the fall, some of the more sensationalist media outlets in the US have been reporting on the entrepreneurial progress of one, Natalie Dylan. It seems Ms. Dylan, a Californian coed, is partnering with a brothel, the Moonlight Bunny Ranch in Nevada, to auction off her virginity to the highest bidder.
The proceeds will be [...]

ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH THE WORD ‘MEH’?

Collins English Dictionary has a new word in its lexicon. The word is “meh” and it was entered by a British resident who defined ‘meh’ as an “expression of utter boredom or an indication of how little you care for an idea.” The term first gained widespread usage after [...]

SHOULD FAT PEOPLE GET FREE AIRLINE SEATS?

Canadian courts have ruled that out airlines must provide extra free space for severely disabled people and fat people. Disabled people 0k but fat people!!!
It is difficult to see how obese people fit among the severely disabled. It is not making light of the matter to ask why a team of Sumo wrestlers [...]

SHOULD BUSH PARDON CONRAD BLACK?

About 2000 felons in the United States plan to ask President Bush for a pardon and commutation of sentence before he leaves office. Among them is Michael Miken, the former junk bond king and Marion Jones, a former Olympic sprinter who received a six-month sentence this year for lying.
To those names we can now [...]