“Safe sex” “Safe sex” in AIDS education jargon means using condoms, which, the writers point out, are not one hundred per cent safe. “It is true that condoms do not prevent semen from entering the partner’s body. Therefore, condoms can be effective in reducing the risk of transmission of the AIDS virus. However, condoms are not foolproof. They might break or have [...]
The AIDS education programme, written for Ontario Catholic Schools by the Institute for Christian Education (ICE), is now being taught in some areas and will be introduced in other schools before too long. Last month’s article discussed how the programme ignores the homosexual connection with this disease, a rational understanding of which is crucial if we are to understand the spread of [...]
Ontario’s newly elected Liberal majority, already under scrutiny by pro-lifers, who fear the province will move to sanction and expand abortion clinics, may also bring wide-open Sunday shopping to the province. The former Liberal minority voted to uphold current business closing laws in December, 1986, after the Supreme Court ruled that the legislation is constitutional. It had been challenged by some retailers [...]
In the 18 years since the Canadian Parliament made child killing semi-legal, the issue of this killing has never really reached a national crisis level forcing people to choose on which side of the fence they stood. It has been a constantly simmering pot, sometimes getting quite warm and other times cooling, but never boiling over. And we in the right-to-life movement [...]
For many years – probably since I began preaching – Santa Claus or Father Christmas has been a problem for me. I haven’t anything against Santa himself. After all, he was originally St. Nicholas whose feast day is December 6. If you say “Santa Nicholas” quickly you will get “Santaclaus”. My trouble was that he overshadowed the Christ Child. Just think of [...]
“When I had sexual intercourse with my boyfriend I felt that God would protect me from getting pregnant – that God would not let it happen to me because he knew I couldn’t cope.” This naïve observation by a birth mother brought a roar of laughter from the audience who jammed the “Adoption – A Loving Choice” workshop at the National Syposium [...]
Repeated pro-life calls for a moratorium – or a halt – to in-vitro fertilization, have fallen on deaf ears. Answers as to the impact of this technology will have on human society, lag far behind its growing use. “Baby Craving” has become big business according to a recent Life Magazine article, creating a huge demand for new baby-making techniques. Is it possible [...]
On October 16 a new AIDS education Programme for use in junior and senior high schools was unveiled by the Manitoba Department of Education. The programme is being presented as a health course, rather than a part of the family-life or sex education curriculum. The new Minister of Education, Roland Penner stated that the programme stresses abstinence, rather than promoting “safe sex.” [...]
Saskatchewan’s social services minister, Grant Schmidt, is under fire for giving funding to a Christian adoption agency and for saying publicly that homosexuals should not be eligible to adopt children. Christian Counselling Services of Saskatoon will become the province’s first private adoption agency and the government grant of $100,000 will fund a one year pilot programme. An agency spokesman said that the [...]
Only four months after its formation, the Saskatchewan-based Victorious Women of Canada mounted an impressive convention and formalized its informal steering committee into an elected executive. Victorious Women’s rapidly growing membership has impressed prominent American pro-family activist, Beverly la Haye, founder of Concerned Women of America. Her organization, she told convention delegates, did not have even one quarter the membership of Victorious [...]
The founding convention of the national Christian Heritage Party was held in Hamilton, Ontario, November 18-20. Some of the major questions facing the delegates were: Would the party appeal d o only a very small part of the political spectrum? Was the name “Christian” in the name of a party a draw back for many people? (Imagine a political party having the [...]
On the day before the Toronto Police Tribunal reconvened to consider the case of David Packer, the constable who refused to guard the Morgentaler abortuary, his wife Anne presented Police Chief Jack Marks with a pro-Packer petition signed by over 57,000 people. Initiated by Gerarda Savoiie of Niagara Falls, the impressive number of signatures was gathered in just two months. Constable Packer [...]
The Ontario government under David Peterson is putting its programme for more abortions into high gear now that the Liberals have been re-elected with a commanding majority. Health Minister Elinor Caplan recently announced that women’s health clinics are planned for a dozen Ontario hospitals. Ostensibly intended to provide a range of women’s health services, these clinics will in fact principally function as [...]
Readers may remember that in the October 1986 Interim there as a report of a court case in Australia in which a ‘courageous and just judge’ refused to allow a baby with spina bifida to be starved and sedated to death. Supreme Court Mr. Justice Vincent said: “No parent, no doctor, no court has any power to determine that the life of [...]
After a full year of lobbying by pro-life groups, individuals and Members of Parliament, the new Minister responsible for Statistics Canada has revealed that the agency will resume complete data gathering and publication of statistics on abortion each year. In a recent letter the Hon. Michel Cote states: “I am pleased to be able to inform you that the therapeutic abortion statistics [...]