Conservative Candidate Fought to Keep HPV Vaccine and the ‘Homosexual Lifestyle’ Out of Schools

Published September 27, 2019 New

“They force people to be labelled as gay ... I don’t think sex clubs should be in school”

VIDEO: Stephen Harper’s dream of a conservative Canada is dead

Published January 2, 2015

What motivates Stephen Harper to roll out of bed each morning? According to observers, Harper is driven by the dream of transforming Canada from a country rooted in strong progressive values into a small-c conservative sorta place. It’s always been “a battle for ownership of the national idea,” columnist Andrew Coyne opined several years ago, […]

Conservative MP compares abortion battle to the struggle to end slavery

Published April 9, 2014

Anti-choice Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth is at it again, arguing zygotes are people too. On Thursday, Woodworth will try to a push for a vote in the House of Commons to “affirm that every Canadian law must be interpreted in a manner that recognizes in law the equal worth and dignity of everyone who is […]

“We can’t afford to have a soft conservative representing us”

Published March 14, 2014

The imminent retirement of MP Maurice Vellacott, a leader of the morality squad in the Conservative caucus, means there will be a hole to fill. And it looks like Randy Schiller of Weyburn, Saskatchewan may want to fill it. Conservative MP Ed Komarnicki has already announced, like Vellacott, that he won’t be running in the […]

Hollywood, beware! Conservatives have a plan to recapture pop culture

Published March 2, 2014

Hollywood, beware! Conservatives are mad as heck that corporate executives and other “heroes” of free enterprise are mocked incessantly in popular culture — and they’ve got a strategy to make things right. That’s the message delegates of the Manning Networking Conference heard this weekend in Ottawa, just before liberal Hollywood converged upon Beverly Hills Sunday […]

Social conservatives show their colours at Canada’s big blue weekend

Published March 1, 2014

Social conservatives are well-represented at the Manning Networking Conference, a two-day gabfest tostrategize about “next steps” for the conservative movement. Check out these booths: After getting a receptive audience at the Conservative Party convention in Calgary in October, the group weneedalaw.ca brought their show to the Ottawa event. Here’s their pitch for a law to restrict abortion: “Canada is […]

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