Monthly Archives: October 1985

A sensible look at the day-care debate

        The pros and cons of day care have been hotly debated for some time.  Critics of day care have often been portrayed as self-satisfied middle-class mothers who do not need to work outside the home and who have no sympathy for the problems of mothers who do.  Day care’s critics question whether day care is damaging to the [...]

2009-07-20T07:59:04-04:00October 20, 1985|Motherhood, Society & Culture|

Alternate Medicine List

    The following is a list of alternate brands.   UPJOHN BRAND                          ALTERNATE MEDICINE                       Kaopectate…...                                               Pepto Bismol                       Cheracol…                                          Robitussin, Triaminic                                                              Cleocin….                       Lincocin…                                         Other antibiotics     Trobicin…                                                                               Cortef…                                             Decadron, Aristocort Medrol…..                                                                            Halcion…                                            Dalmane/Restoril                                     Xanax……                                          Tranxene/Valium                       Neo-cortef...                                        Cortisporin                       Tolinase…                                           [...]

2009-07-20T07:47:14-04:00October 20, 1985|Activism, Bioethics, Pro-Life|

Upjohn boycott

    Delegates at the recent annual general meeting of Alliance for Life passed a resolution urging all Canadian pro-lifers to join the Upjohn boycott, initiated by National Right to Life in the U.S.   Upjohn is the first modern pharmaceutical company to turn from making life-saving drugs to producing drugs whose only purpose is to kill.  Their Prostin F2 alpha is [...]

2009-07-20T07:42:45-04:00October 20, 1985|Abortion, Bioethics, Society & Culture|

Editorial: Homosexuality and the Charter

        The practice of homosexuality is an offence against God and against nature.  As an offence against God it leads one further into sin, darkening the intellect and weakening the will.  Like all vices, unchecked it corrodes the moral values of its practitioners while helping to spread other evils.   As an offence against nature, the practice of homosexuality [...]

2009-07-20T07:36:23-04:00October 20, 1985|Editorials, Religion, Society & Culture|

The Interim: October 1985 VOL. III NO. 7: Pro-lifers demand AG resign

                On August 22,  Ontario’s Attorney General, Ian Scott, held a press conference.  He expressed his growing concern with “the conduct of many demonstrators” at the Morgentaler “clinic” on Harbord Street.   Scott produced two letters: one from Cardinal Carter, Archbishop of the Toronto Roman Catholic archdiocese, and another from Norma Scarborough, president of the Canadian [...]

2009-07-20T07:27:41-04:00October 20, 1985|Abortion, Editorials, Politics|
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