Thursday Post

In what will no doubt be decried as an effort to imfringe upon the freedom of women everywhere, Conservative backbencher Rod Bruinooge has introduced a private member's bill to make it illegal to coerce a woman into having an abortion. It won't get very far as PM Harper will not back it. Thanks for the guts, Stephen.


Nearly half of all court interpreters fail tests determining their efficiency as interpreters. Anything to slow the malfunctioning machine of justice.


Sarah Palin is in Hamilton TONIGHT! (More as it develops)


Joyce Arthur makes a fool of herself here.

Abortion is being scapegoated here. It's not abortion that leads to the problem of skewed sex ratios in China, India or even Canada. It's the low status of women, as well as the Indian dowry practice, and the Chinese custom of passing the family line through the son.

Instead of trying to ban sex-selection abortion, governments should focus on education campaigns to spark a cultural shift, introduce economic incentives to have daughters and abolish discriminatory laws and policies that lead families to favour boys over girls.

Read the rest and have a laugh. It's high time you did something for you.

A sizing up of Christopher Hitchens.

For someone who hates the Catholic Church as much as Hitchens does, it should be sufficient just to tell the truth about the wicked things done and the necessary reforms that were too long in coming. He could consult a number of reports on the matter, some of them commissioned by the Church, others by law enforcement, still others by government inquiries. It is not really that hard to understand how the shape of this is different today than in 1975. Can it be that Hitchens and his ilk, riveted by this issue for years, still don't know the basics of Church law on priestly discipline?

Possibly.