Canada The federal Conservative government’s omnibus anti-crime bill includes a provision to raise the age of consent for heterosexual sexual activity from 14 to 16 … Conservative MP Joy Smith(Kildonan-St. Paul) will introduce a private member’s bill targeting human trafficking by amending the Criminal Code to outlaw sexual tourism and transmitting, distributing or advertising information for the means of sexual exploitation. Smith [...]
The pro-abortion movement enjoyed tremendous publicity during the month of October because of two major international conferences, one of which was sponsored by UN agencies. The Women Deliver conference in London, England was co-sponsored by, among other organizations, UNICEF, the World Health Organization and the World Bank. The theme chosen was “Invest in Women – It Pays!” The purpose of the gathering [...]
For the first time, scientists have created a large batch of cloned embryos from the cells of adult primates, a breakthrough being hailed around the world as the next step towards creating cloned human embryos for research and “therapeutic” applications. Scientists working in Oregon say they have created embryos using the somatic cell nuclear transfer technique from the ova and skin cells [...]
United Nations University and the Institute of Advanced Studies, a Tokyo-based UN think tank, have released a paper that examined the ethical dilemma of cloning. The main purpose of “Is Human Reproductive Cloning Inevitable: Future Options for UN Governance” is to trace the evolution of international legislation related to cloning and to highlight five future options of governance. It poses the following [...]
’Tis the season to call it anything but Christmas. As with each year in the recent past, there seems to be a concerted effort in an increasing number of sectors to avoid calling this holiday period what it really is. In response, however, there is also a countervailing emphasis being placed on reminding society at large of the real reason for the [...]
This Christmas I will fall to my knees at church and thank and praise God for the birth of his Son. Why? The evidence of the early church, the eyewitness accounts from neutral or even hostile sources, the ever-increasing tangible proof from archeological digs and the abundantly meagre nature of the standard objections. Let us remember the innocent, crying baby born in [...]
Unborn victims of violence issue comes to forefront After Aysun Sesen, a pregnant 25-year-old Toronto woman, was killed in October, the media focused on the the issue of unborn victims of violence and the absurdity that the unborn child is a legal non-entity in criminal law. Sesen was the fifth high-profile murder in Canada since 2005 that took the life of the [...]
After the Huron-Superior District Catholic School Board rejected administering the anti-HPV vaccine Gardasil in its schools to pre-teen girls, Algoma Public Health attacked the board for what it implied were outright sexist views. The arguments were anti-Catholic and silly, so stale and predictable that APH should have been embarrassed to make them. Noting that females get the human papilloma virus from males [...]
To the modern reader, the visit of the Wise Men can only be one more improbable detail in an already impossible story. And yet, every Christmas, no matter how secularized the season has become, the tableau of a caravan, crossing a desert and following a star, survives. What is it about these Wise Men, these kings, that still appeals to an un-Christian [...]