New Brunswick Premier Frank McKenna says the takeover of local hospital boards is a way the province can save money. Many New Brunswickers feel it is a way the province can grab power. Under the Liberal government’s new Hospital Act, the local boards of the province’s 51 hospitals are to be replaced by 8 “region boards.” The region boards are not obliged [...]
Who are the women Joe Clark is willing to dance with? According to a report in Reality, the bimonthly newsletter of REAL Women, of March/April 1992, only with committed feminists such as Doris Anderson, Toronto Star columnist and former president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women; Sally Armstrong, editor of Homemaker magazine; and their friends. Last summer, for [...]
Parents should be aware that the “Atlantic Sexuality Conference ‘92” was held June 4-7, at Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax. The conference had the support of the Nova Scotia Department of Education (and teachers were encouraged to attend), and the provincial Department of Health. This is a sampling of some of the topics: Homophobia; AIDS; Heterosexism; Safer Sex; Extramarital Relationships; Counseling Gay [...]
You don’t have to be in the parenting game long to realize how destructive television can be to family values. In the early years, you tend to overlook the occasional compromising situation or innuendo, figuring the kids don’t “get it” anyway. But as the children grow, the cumulative effort of the occasional objectionable material cannot be ignored. And it’s not just a [...]
Battling the Church The Coalition of Concerned Catholics (CCCC), the group of “progressive” Catholics who want to remake their Church in the current feminist image, met in Toronto on May 2 and 3, 1992, for their third annual meeting. Some 300 were in attendance. Networking The choice of American key speakers, Fathers Bill Callahan and Richard McBrien (for latter see Interim, May [...]
Publius Terentius Afer (190-159 B.C.) As the Roman playwright Terrence quoted above states, “There is a demand these days for people who can make wrong conduct appear right.” Today, just as 2,100 years ago, such people are swaying our nation into a path of destruction and misery. The most prominent among them all is Henry Morgentaler. Having – by his own estimate [...]
We believe in freedom of conscience and religions, and the right of Canadians to advocate, without fear of intimidation or suppression, public policies which reflect their most deeply held values… From Reform Party policy The Blue Book 1991 This policy statement, along with the personal views of Reform leader Preston Manning and its sole M.P., Deborah Grey, have led many Canadian pro-lifers [...]
The program described below is slated as an optional, one-day a year, instruction. Minor as this may seem, it is one day too many. The gay drive for acceptance proceeds relentlessly, as is only to be expected. When society tolerates as legitimate a lifestyle such as sodomy, which is contrary to the law of nature and God’s law – that lifestyle will [...]
Calgary – I arrived to picket at the Calgary abortuary on a sunny afternoon. The man I was relieving left word that he had spoken to an East Indian woman who sat alone in a car parked in the abortuary lot near the sidewalk where we picket. She was crying. Her husband was inside the building presumably arranging an abortion. Noticing her [...]
Ottawa – On June 3, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) announced the formation of a special committee to advise it on how best to promote respect for life. “Human life, from the moment of conception through the moment of death, is a precious gift from God,” said Archbishop Austin Burke of Halifax, the committee’s chairman. “We’re determined to promote that [...]
Toronto – Following a sustained two-year-long campaign by big retailers, Jewish businessmen, and the Toronto media, the NDP Premier of Ontario, Bob Rae, announced Sunday shopping on June 3, 1992. The campaign in favor of shopping on Sundays was marked by law breaking, phony arguments, and slanted polls. (See Interim editorial, June, 1992) Several retailers such as storeowners Herzog and Magder owed [...]