The Toronto Star reports that the status of women committee called upon the federal government to ante up $1.4 billion for maternal health and demanded that monies be provided for abortion to be part of the initiative. The Star reports: But the Conservative members of the status of women committee calling for the all-inclusive spending were conspicuously absent from the announcement today. [...]
But why should O'Leary be any different. Denyse O'Leary, who is somehow both a "key figure" and "minor luminary" in the intelligent design controversy, counters the factual errors that Marci McDonald's book includes about the journalist. Bottom line, as O'Leary explains it: It is as if the universe is now fact free. Some woman's misplaced anger and fear is important now, and nothing else [...]
World magazine has an interview with Jennifer Roback Morse, who brings an economic point of view to analyze family and marriage. An excerpt: So we have many more single moms. So what? Many questions are involved: While mom's attaching to the baby, who's taking care of mom? In the natural family, there is another person taking care of mom, and that's dad. Why is [...]
The Washington Examiner reports: Over the seven year period studied in the report, Planned Parenthood received $657.1 million in tax dollars; Population Council received $284.3 million, the Guttmacher Institute received $12.7 million, Advocates for Youth received $8.7 million, and the International Planned Parenthood Federation received $3.9 million. All in all, $966.7 million tax dollars went to encouraging a practice a plurality of [...]
From IEEE Spectrum Inside Technology, a report on robots created by Douglas Hines and his company True Companion, which treats the story as a cute and natural marriage of libertine sex and the development of modern technology: For US $7000 to $9000 (based on customization) and a $40 monthly fee for tech support, Roxxxy offers patrons five preprogrammed preferences—gay, bisexual, lesbian, straight, and sadomasochistic—with [...]
Four stories from our June issue on the proposed Ontario sex ed curriculum and other issues surrounding sex ed are now online. The main story is "Ontario’s sex ed scandal" which looks at some the changes, the political fallout and reaction from pro-family groups. Here we report on the actual changes to the curriculum (which is being re-examined but hasn't been shelved, contrary to [...]
In April, a Harris-Decima poll found that Canadians were evenly split on whether abortion should be part of the government’s maternal health initiative: 48 per cent were opposed to including abortion, while 46 per cent were in favour. However, a new poll from the same company now finds that 58 per cent say abortion should be included while just 30 per cent [...]
Sometimes I wonder why the people of Africa do not positively detest Europe and North America. We have exploited, colonized and raped their continent for centuries and continue to sell arms to their dictators whom we have put in place and then condemn them for spending money on wars. We invaded their countries, destroyed their culture and enforced white privilege [...]
The 1998 Ontario Health and Physical Education Curriculum is less explicit than the revised edition. In the 1998 curriculum, Grade 1 students are only required to learn “the major parts of the body,” but not the proper names of genitalia. In Grade 3, students must outline “the basic human and animal reproductive processes.” There is no reference to learning about gender identity [...]
There are different ways in which sex education is taught around the world. In the Netherlands, the national curriculum, in a primary school target, only mandates that “pupils learn about the makeup of plants, animals and humans and about the form and function of their parts.” Nevertheless, in a society that readily tolerates contraception, sexuality education and abortion, over half of the [...]
McGuinty withdraws but doesn’t nix liberalized curriculum Editor’s Note: There is sexually explicit content in this news article. On April 22, after two days of intense protest from parents and pro-family groups, Ontario Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty announced he would delay the implementation of a new sex ed curriculum to re-examine its contents. The controversy began after Rev. Charles McVety, [...]
The sex education controversy in Ontario has sparked debate about what sort of education is most appropriate for children. For many parents, and certainly among religious and pro-family groups, there is widespread concern and agreement that sex education should delay intercourse, prevent STIs and maintain cultural values, although there is debate as to how it should be taught and at what age. [...]
Small Dead Animals looks at a recent Peter Singer article in the New York Times which explores the question, ""Is a world with people in it better than one without?" and an interview with late cult leader Jim Jones.
The Canadian Labour Congress has criticized the Canadian government for not including abortion in its maternal health initiative because the labour union buys the "full spectrum of sexual and reproductive health care rights" line pushed by pro-abortion groups from the Guttmacher Institute to the World Health Organization to the Obama administration, who all say abortion and condoms are necessary to achieve the Millennium Development Goals of [...]
Our June editorial is about the aggressive sex education program pushed by the Ontario government and parental control of their children's education. Although the curriculum's implementation has been postponed parents need to remain vigilant. However, the thrust of the editorial is to place the sex ed curriculum within a context, namely the secular and progressive liberalism of Pierre Trudeau. An excerpt: In 1967, Pierre Trudeau famously declared: “There’s no [...]