Many individuals and married couples are seeking integration in their lives. For some, this integration is found through seeking spiritual direction. For others, it is found when they begin using Natural Family Planning (NFP). As Sister Marilyn Mangan found in her work as an NFP practitioner and director of the Marguerite Bourgeoys Family Service, there is a natural integration between natural family [...]
On April 10, 1987, London Area Right to Life Association held its fifth annual dinner, a farewell to the outgoing executive and a welcoming of the incoming executive. Molly Kelly, this year’s keynote speaker, gave a vivacious and inspiring address, leaving her listeners with warm feelings. Molly came from Philadelphia to be with us and said she enjoys each return visit to [...]
“Cowards walk in crowds. The brave in single file.” Old Indian saying. Whoever chose the name “David” for Officer Packer must have been inspired. For Packer is following in the footsteps of his great namesake, David, King of Israel. In case you have forgotten the story, look it up in the First Book of Samuel, Chapter 17. With nothing to support him [...]
Communist China has made a trade pact with Canadian business that will give every pro-lifer many a sleepless night. The firm has concluded an agreement with the Mainland Chinese to market Canadian pregnancy-detection kits which will be “tested” on the people of China. Quadra Logic Technologies Inc., a West Coast company, has joined the Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood Research in this [...]
A growing pro-life contingent of the B.C. Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) is opposing the most recent pro-abortion proposals of the Federation. In an attempt to uphold the individual rights of pro-life teachers, the B.C. Teachers for Life (BCTFL) is working hard in the hopes that lobbying, letter-writing and increased representation will reverse the federation’s pro-abortion direction. The BCTF’s pro-abortion stand, embodied in the [...]
Federal Justice Minister, Ray Hnatyshyn, is in the hot seat over his proposed legislation to curb pornography, recently tabbed in the House of Commons. The critics, calling the proposals “puritan,” “dangerous,” and “acceptable to Queen Victoria and Jimmy Swaggart,” are mostly the same individuals and special interest groups who last year attacked Hnatyshyn’s predecessor, John Crosbie, over his proposals to stop pornography. [...]
“Blame it on mother – a feminist look at motherhood” was, the flyer proclaimed, an “important conference.” 200 women and a smattering of men from across Canada and the U.S. gathered at the University of Toronto’s Victoria College in mid-May, supposedly to examine the role of Mother in society. By the end of the conference it was clear that the stated objective [...]
In a play designed to teach elementary school pupils how to avoid sexual abuse, a young girl from outer space (Merlana) is sent to earth to learn about the god and bad forms of touching. Playing the role of one character, Merlana learns that pillow fights can be fun, but that touching-games can hurt people too. In a different role she finds [...]
The philosophy governing feminism in Canada has been explored briefly in two early articles on “Feminism’s basic values” (The Interim, October and November 1985). This “ideological” and secular feminism (the Latin secula means “world”) of Simone de Beauvoir, Kate Millett, Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Germaine Greer, et al., is a struggle for rights, equality and power. Its underlying philosophy is that of [...]
The controversy over lack of government funding for the pro-life, pro-family women’s group REAL Women of Canada has focused media and public attention on the funding of so-called women’s groups and the activities of government agencies responsible for the “status of women” in Canada. But few average Canadians are sure who’s who as the scenario is played out against the backdrop of [...]
An on-going series of profiles of pro-life Members of Parliament A native of Winnipeg, David Kilgour is a lawyer with a particular interest in constitutional law. His wife Laura is also a lawyer but is now a home wit their four children, twin daughters Margot and Eileen, David and eighteen-month-old Hilary. The Kilgour family lives in the Gatineau Hills just outside Ottawa, [...]
Mexico City houses some 22 million people, slightly less than the total population of all of Canada. It is a prime target for the population planners who believe fewer babies make happier parents. Mexicans disagree. Although poverty is evident, children are everywhere, the people are neatly dressed, the streets are clean and everyone seems to have a dignity which does not permit [...]
A voice for the voiceless was temporarily silenced recently when Rev. Ken Campbell lost his application to the Ontario Supreme Court to have set aside the “stay” of seven charges of procuring a miscarriage, laid earlier by the police against Drs. Henry Morgentaler Robert Scott and Nikki Colodny. The “stay” had been ordered by Ontario Attorney-General Scott’s pending a ruling from the [...]
Joe Borowski’s case began in 1978 when he applied to the court for a declaration that would give unborn children full legal protection. Specifically Borowski sought a ruling that the 1969 amendments to section 251 of the Criminal Code are unconstitutional and invalid, renowned civil rights lawyer Morris Shumiatcher was retained by Borowski to argue his case. The lawyers for the federal [...]
Joe Borowski’s court case, in which he is seeking legal protection for unborn children is now in the hands of the Supreme Court of Canada. The case, launched more than nine years ago, is now nearing its conclusion. In his application, Mr. Borowski is asking the court to declare that the 1969 amendment to the Criminal Code legalizing some hospital abortions is [...]