The results of a study on the attitudes of Quebec women toward marriage, family, health, sex, careers and money, suggest the modern Quebecois has little in common with her sisters of past generations. * * * * Chatelaine, a Montreal-based, French-language women’s magazine published by MacLean-hunter, released the results of the poll in its June issue. The poll was conducted by Multi-Reso [...]
Toronto – Private schools in Ontario already receive public money say the leaders of a coalition formed to spearhead the drive for funding. They are now pointing to the University of Toronto Schools and Eden Christian College as precedents of government support to educational institutions other than Roman Catholic. Last spring one Ontario Alliance for Christian Schools joined forces with the Canadian [...]
Vancouver – The Family Coalition Party (FCP) of British Columbia got off to a good start with a fundraising dinner on September 4 with dinner on September 4 with the former B.C. Premier Bill Vander Zalm as guest speaker. Although the former Premier said he would not abandon the Social Credit Party, he nevertheless endorsed Kathleen Toth, a FCP candidate in the [...]
On August 26, the Metropolitan (Toronto) Separate School Board (MSSB), easily passed a motion, proposed by Trustee Harold Adams, which supported Archbishop Aloysius Ambrozic’s statement banning the promotion of condoms in the Catholic school system. As a result the statement will be distributed to all the MSSB schools. Band-aid solution In his letter to the five school boards in the Archdiocese, Archbishop [...]
In an unprecedented move, Bishop Anthony Tonnos of Hamilton, Ontario, urged diocesan priests to boycott a banquet sponsored by the city’s St. Joseph Hospital Foundation. Fundraising dinner The September 20 fundraising dinner featured Governor Mario Cuomo of New York as guest speaker. In the past Cuomo had legislated state-funded abortions. In a letter to his priests, first publicly revealed in the Hamilton [...]
Andrew Kimbrell (New York, Harper Collins, 1993, pp 305, $29.50) Selling ourselves piece by piece In The Human Body Shop, Andrew Kimbrell has taken on the kind of challenge that would send most writers running for an ice pack and a darkened room. Not only has he set out to explain advances in medical and biological technologies to the non-scientist, but he [...]
Joan Dower Kosmachuk (Winnipeg, Windflower Communications, 1992, pp85, $6.95) Pre-teen novel is no fairy tale As a pro-life parent, it is always difficult to know just when and how to introduce the topic of abortion to one’s own children. Ever though, as adult activists, we grapple with the issue on a regular basis, the innocence of children also needs to be respected. [...]
ROSE: Therese Weiler. For her courage and endurance during her Walk for Life across Canada. The Ontario woman began her journey April 21, 1992 and finished in August of this year. Along the way she spread the pro-life message to anyone who would listen. Her journey was made possible through the generous help of Business for Life, which supplied a mobile home [...]
Many pro-lifers have wondered how we can get our message into the schools. We reason that if we can impress upon the very young the importance and sanctity of each and every human life, then in ten years we would have educated an entire generation – a generation of pro-life young adults. Maureen Anderson, a very active mother from Alberta, has taken [...]
Don’t tell Greg Kazmierski he is handicapped. He’ll just say, “No dice. I’m not.” Greg is a regular 18-year-old guy who just happens to have one extra chromosome. He also just happens to be the first teen with Downs Syndrome to be integrated into the Carleton school system and graduate from high school. The key word in describing Greg’s participation at Lester [...]
Speaking in Toronto, American Life League president Judie Brown was guaranteed the undivided attention of her audience of over 200 when she boldly stated “Canada is a Dictatorship.” Her riveting accusation was in response to the Ontario government’s decision to pay for all abortions, including those in private abortuaries such as Henry Morgentaler’s. Continuing, Mrs. Brown acknowledged that the U.S. government had, [...]
Louise Summerhill, founder of Birthright, died in St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, on August 11. Mrs. Summerhill was seventy-five years of age. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, she came to Canada at the age of seven. In 1968, recognizing the urgent need to provide a practical alternative to abortion, she started working in a one-room office in East York. From that one room Birthright [...]
The basic theme of Father Alphonse de Valk’s presentation at the Winnipeg Conference was that we cannot compromise killing innocent human beings in our attempt to provide acceptable legal protection for the unborn. In his powerfully eloquent address, cogently supported by numerous historical details, Fr. De Valk illustrated carefully that logic necessarily dictates society can’t accept killing of some in an imaginary [...]
Gary Hellard, a pastor from Saskatchewan, addressed approximately 150 delegates on the topic of “Post Sexual Syndrome.” After working with and observing young people for several years, he noticed that young people of both sexes who were sexually active exhibited several negative behavioural characteristics. Most notable were depression, anger and obsession with sex. He further noted that teenaged couples who were sexually [...]
Douglas Scott, Vice President for public policy of the Christian Action Council, based in the Washington, D.C. area, gave an informative lecture on the history of Planned Parenthood from its inception to the present day. Mr. Scott began with a detailed biography of the organization’s infamous founder, Margaret Sanger. Sanger, a leading eugenicist in her day, wanted a pure society, achieved through [...]