CHP
Commentary

​Tomorrow, we celebrate the 149th Birthday/Anniversary of the Dominion of Canada. Until 1982, this celebration was called ‘Dominion Day’, acknowledging Sir Leonard Tilley’s presentation to the Fathers of Confederation that our name should be based on Psalm 72:8: “He (God) shall have dominion from sea to sea and from the river to the ends of the earth.”

David Stephan and his wife Collet have been sentenced to, respectively, four months jailtime and three months house arrest for “failing to provide the necessaries of life” for their 19-month old son, Ezekiel, who died of meningitis in March, 2012.

​What does the “Brexit” mean for Canada? Yesterday, the United Kingdom voted by referendum to leave the European Union (EU).

Welcome to Canada in 2016. It’s been a tough transition but Canadians can pridefully say that we have finally (almost) conquered the scourge in our heritage…truth.

With the likely passage of MP Mauril Bélanger’s Bill C-210 to change one phrase of Canada’s national anthem—supposedly to make it more “gender-inclusive”—new calls are already coming to make an even more profound change to the anthem.

On Sunday, June 12th, a radical Islamic jihadist shot and killed 50 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Rather than focusing on the ideology which lay behind this and the majority of terrorist acts in recent years, much of the mainstream media is...

If you had a debt of, say, $200,000 due to a mortgage, would you be shopping for several new cars, and hiring a gardener or butler? What about if you weren’t keeping up with your current payments? Silly question, right?

That message came through to those present at the anti-euthanasia demonstration yesterday on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa.

By now, most Canadians have heard the news: delegates to the Conservative Policy Convention in Vancouver have removed from the party’s policy book its support for traditional marriage between one man and one woman. This decision sends a clear message that the party endorses other kinds of “marriage”.

How would Canadians of 100 years ago have viewed the state of Canada today? If they were able to “turn over in their graves”—as the saying goes— today’s moral decay would have them spinning.

​May 17, on “International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia”, the Liberal government introduced Bill C-16—draft legislation to grant full civil rights to transgendered persons. What could possibly be wrong with that?

There are times when a person must be willing to stand alone. This is one of those times.