CHURCH OF ENGLAND (Anglican) Dr. Robert Runcie’s resignation as Archbishop of Canterbury came into effect on January 31, 1991. Rt. Rev. George Carey will be his successor (on April 19). In an interview with Readers’ Digest magazine (February edition), the Anglican archbishop-to-be declared that “the idea that only a male can represent Christ at the altar is a most serious heresy.” Thus [...]
Four years ago the issue of schools and condoms was hotly debated. Some public school boards decided to teach students not only how to use condoms but to install condom dispensers for their use. Since they had adopted the contraceptive philosophy of the Planned Parenthood organization long before that, this move appeared quite natural to them. Parents in other public schools, however, [...]
On March 11, the Bay, Simpson’s and Zellers in Ontario announced that they would open on Good Friday. “Good Friday is a big shopping day in other provinces,” said a spokesman for the stores, “so we decided to open that day and close Easter Sunday.’ The announcement indicated the growing contempt of large businesses such as the above for the religious sensibilities [...]
On March 9, twenty people from Toronto, Brampton, Brantford, Port Perry and Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, met for quiet prayer in the lane behind Henry Morgentaler’s Toronto abortuary. Injunction Planning to pray for two hours, the participants did not obstruct the lane; neither did they carry sign, hand out the literature nor speak to anyone. They just prayed the biblical devotion of the [...]
An order in Council, designed to frustrate the efforts of picketers on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, was quietly resurrected using the Gulf War and President Bush’s visit. The original Order in Council was strongly objected to by senators and MPs and who forced the Tories to back down. Trying again The Tories are trying again. What is at stake is the right [...]
Our January front page featured the copy of a questionnaire on contraceptives and condoms used in a Grade 10 class in Notre Dame Catholic High School in Welland, Ontario. We also reported that the Public Health Nurse had explained various contraceptive devices to the students and gave them a choice of three answers to a question about abortion. Furthermore, we noted that [...]
Michel Arsenault of Life Savers, Moncton, N.B., stated the defeat “was rather nice.” The bill would have allowed abortions on demand. “Now we can work towards a law that really will protect both mother and unborn child.” (The Times-Transcript) Bernard Currie, President of the Kitchener Right to Life, said there will be “mixed reactions…Some of our members have not been pleased with [...]
“There is no safe sex,” asserts Robert noble, M.D., professor of Medicine at the University of Kentucky, in a full-page article in Newsweek magazine, April 1, 1991. “I’m an infectious-diseases physician and an AIDS doctor to the poor. Passing out condoms to teenagers is like issuing them squirt guns for a four-alarm blaze. We should stop kidding ourselves,” he said. Dr. Noble’s [...]
Delegates to the Policy Convention of the Ontario New Democratic Party held in early March in Toronto ratified a policy resolution calling on the government to create joint committees which would ensure co-operation between the separate (Roman Catholic) and public school boards. But some delegates brought forward other, much more ominous resolutions, all of which were shelved at this meeting. For example, [...]
Darryl Anaka’s five-year effort to obtain religious exemption from the B.C. Teachers Federation (BCTF) and his local teachers’ union, the Terrace Teachers’ Association (TDTA), has failed. Mr. Anaka, 41, father of three and a science teacher for 14 years at Thornhill Junior Secondary School in Terrace, had argued that the BCTF’s official ‘pro-choice’ position could not be reconciled to his religious belief [...]
In a letter published in the March issue of the Canadian Catholic Review, writer Peggy MacIsaac objects to Professor Keith Cassidy’s favourable appraisal of Michael Cuneo’s Catholics Against the Church, (Toronto, 1990) a sociological study of the pro-life movement in Toronto (reviewed in The Interim, Insight insert, February 1990). The book’s central thesis, she writes, is that pro-life activists are a divisive [...]
In mid-February REAL Women demanded an immediate review of the Mulroney government’s Women’s Program by an “objective and unbiased Parliamentary Committee.” Renewed funding for radical feminists women’s centres this year to the tune of 1.2 million dollars provoked REAL Women’s call for a parliamentary investigation, National Vice President Gwen Landolt explained. In February 1990, as part of the effort to slow Canada’s [...]
The Toronto Right to Life Association has had two only presidents in its 20-year history. First was Gwen Landolt. Second, Laura McArthur. On February 27, a large crowd attended a testimonial dinner in her honour, to thank Laura for sixteen years of service as president, a job which she has now handed over to June Scandiffio. Born in New Brunswick, Laura was [...]
Four appeals of the development permit of Henry Morgentaler’s abortuary in Edmonton’s west end have reportedly delayed the abortuary opening until July 1991. Renovations Morgentaler disclosed to the media that appeals to the Development Appeal Board heard March 14 have delayed renovations and set back the opening of the abortuary by at least four months. The original scheduled opening was March 15. [...]
When she spoke in Toronto on February 7, Carol Everett of Dallas, Texas gave a fascinating account of her life history and her involvement as the director of six ‘clinics’ with the U.S. abortion industry. Young and Immature Pregnant at 16, she married young and immature. After two children, she left her husband for another man. A divorce followed, and a second [...]