Private Members’ Bills on contentions issues stand very little chance of actually getting as far as a final vote in the House of Commons. Bills seeking to either tighten abortion laws, or to widen access, are a case in point. A recorded vote on a Private Member’s Bill relating to abortion would be of great value to lobbyists and individuals on either [...]
The January 8, 1986 edition of the Toronto Star revealed that sterilization has replaced the birth control pill as the number one method of contraception in Canada. In a 1984 study of 5,315 women aged between 18 and 49, most of whom are married, 48 per cent said that they rely on sterilization to prevent pregnancy. This includes both male and female [...]
Indications were that Humber College’s fourth annual conference on Sexuality, held at Toronto’s Skyline Hotel last November, lived up to its intent This time, the organizers strove for less of a clinical focus and put more emphasis on contentious social issues. The topic of sexuality grew out of Humber College’s post-graduate programme on counseling in sexuality. In the past, the outreach was [...]
Washington, D.C. – Speaking February 26 at the Capitol Hilton, NOW President Eleanor Smeal finally had the chance to address Catholic University Law School students. Smeal had been denied space to speak on campus twice in January due to protests from pro-life undergraduates. In her talk, Smeal attacked the Catholic Church for its opposition to abortion and contraception, claiming that, “We are [...]
On February 17, ABC aired a made-for-television movie called “Choices,” which treaded the issue of abortion. “Choices” is packed full of 80’s values, or lack thereof, and preaches a modern day message of selfishness. George C. Scott plays a wealthy, 62 year-old retired judge who is divorced from his first wife (due to lack of “passion” in the relationship) and is remarried [...]
In October and November 1985, The Interim published two articles in secular feminism. The first covered the International leaders; the second Canadian connection. One feature stood out above all about this ideology – the clear connection between the contraceptive mentality, abortion, homosexuality and the entire “pro-choice” sexual permissiveness, which the leaders themselves believe to be at the very heart of their movement. [...]
On Thursday, February 20, 1986, Catholics Active for Life, a Toronto based group, sent a press release and a 16-page pamphlet opposing the legalization of the homosexual “Way of Life” to 700 TV and radio stations across Canada. It also sent its press release (see advertisement in Interim’s March issue), in English or French to MP’s in Ottawa. Earlier, in August, Catholic [...]
Last January 26th a Toronto Sunday newspaper ran a full-age article within its entertainment section. It was a glowing commentary of a new situation-comedy made in the U.S. called Brothers. This show ran every weeknight from January 27th until February 14th 11 p.m. on City-TV. Brothers is a show which promotes the acceptance of homosexuality. The three brothers, states the article are [...]
The following account appeared first in the Evangelical Baptist of February 1986 Rev. Fred Vaughan is pastor Beulah Baptist Church in Mississauga, Ont. And one of the three clergymen acquitted on the charge of mischief on February 10, 1986. If anyone had told me a month ago that I would sit in a holding cell, one day, and speak to several men [...]
An Interchurch Committee on Pornography is pressuring Justice Minister John Crosbie not to accept parts of the 1985 Fraser Report on Pornography and Prostitution. The report proposes strong measures against child pornography and violence against women. But it proposes to make all other explicit hard-core pornography legal. Rev. Hudson Hilsden, who represents the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada, is chairman of the Committee [...]
When my friend heard I was going to a REAL Women conference, she laughed. Such is the public image of REAL Women. I am happy to report that the women I met at the conference were not the strange creatures I had been led to expect. They were not frilly, sentimental and reactionary people afraid to enter the twentieth century. Neither did [...]
In a protest against the extra-billing ban being legislated by the Peterson government, Sarnia General Hospital doctors decided at the beginning of February 1986 that their 100 members should withdraw from all hospital committees. The abortion committee alone was to be an exception because it was “thought to be a more sensitive” area. Three weeks later five of the eight doctors on [...]
Toronto – Premier David Peterson said on Tuesday, March 4, 1986, that the Ontario government has no intention of disbanding the Ontario Film and Video Review Board or of stopping it from banning pictures. Mr. Peterson was non-committal on the reappointment of Mrs. Mary Brown for a third three-year term as chief of the censor board. The Liberal media for the most [...]
Judge Lorenzo Di Cecco, at the “show cause” hearing on the three clergymen at Old City Hall, Toronto, on February 25, 1986, proved the perfect symbol of Canadian Society. “I will not take sides,” he declared, withdrawing his earlier decision of February 10 to impose the signing of a “peace bond” upon the two Catholic priests and the Baptist Church minister. On [...]
Toronto On March 1, 1986, a mock trial of the 1969 abortion law took place at Trinity-St. Paul’s United Church. It was part of a cross country consciousness-raising campaign organized by pro-abortionists in favour of abortion on demand. In Toronto it was also the first event leading up to International Women’s Day on March 8. Some 500 people were in the audience, [...]