Hands Across the Border
Posted by Tom McFeely
Monday, May 25, 2009 1:31 PM
Robin and Rachel Daniels speaking at the May 14 March for Life in Victoria, British Columbia. (Alina McFeely)
Earlier this month I attended the second annual March for Life in Victoria, British Columbia.
And speaking as a Canadian who has worked for America’s finest weekly Catholic newspaper for the last nine years, I’m delighted to report the May 14 March was a stirring example of pro-life cross-border collaboration.
For Catholics, the day’s proceedings kicked off with a special noon Mass at St.... READ MORE
Filed under canada, pro-life
Polygamy is Only ‘Logical’
Posted by Tom McFeely
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 8:29 AM
The Register’s current print issue contains an article by Steve Weatherbe that examines a polygamy trial underway in Canada.
The case involves two men belonging to a fundamentalist Mormon sect who have multiple wives.
A defense lawyer for one of the men has already announced that he intends to cite Canada’s legalization of homosexual “marriage” as an argument for overturning Canada’s... READ MORE
Filed under canada, marriage, polygamy, same-sex marriage
Polygamy and ‘Gay Marriage’
Posted by Tom McFeely
Friday, January 23, 2009 8:46 AM
Scene from HBO's 'Big Love.' (HBO)
“Same-sex marriage, they said, would be the slippery slope to polygamy.
“Just a few short years after Canadians engaged in a caustic debate over whether two men, or two women, should be allowed to marry, the prognosticators will find out if they are vindicated — however unhappily.”
That’s how this article in the Jan. 21 issue of Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper begins. The article... READ MORE
Filed under canada, homosexuality, marriage
Canada’s No-Decision Election
Posted by Tom McFeely
Wednesday, October 15, 2008 10:37 AM
PM Harper voted, but many Canadians didn't. (AFP)
For the third consecutive time, a Canadian federal election has failed to produce a clear-cut winner.
While the incumbent Conservative Party did add a few seats to its holding in the Canadian parliament, it fell well short of the number required to form a majority government.
So what went wrong for the Conservatives, in terms of dashing the high hopes they held of winning a parliamentary... READ MORE
Filed under canada, stephen harper
Canada’s ‘Rush to Dishonor’
Posted by Tom McFeely
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 10:42 AM
(CNS/Canadian Catholic News)
Canada features prominently in the news today.
Canadians are going to the polls right now to elect a new federal government, after an election campaign in which religious perspectives were almost entirely absent, as the Register reported here.
But abortion did raise its head in the closing days of the campaign, courtesy of the controversial decision to confer the country’s highest honor, the... READ MORE
Filed under abortion, canada
Look North, California
Posted by Tom McFeely
Wednesday, October 01, 2008 12:23 PM
Lesbian wedding ceremony in Canada. (AFP)
Homosexual activists campaigning against California’s ballot initiative to define marriage as a heterosexual-only institution claim there are no negative consequences to legalizing same-sex “marriage.”
Not true, say a pair of commentators from Canada who have assessed the adverse effects of Canada’s decision to legalize homosexual “marriage.”
According Canadian social policy... READ MORE
Filed under california, canada, homosexuality, marriage
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