Alfie’s Home Written by Richard A. Cohen Illustrated by Elizabeth Sherman 1993 International Healing Foundation, P.O. Box 901, Bowie, MD, 20718-0901 Tel. (301) 773-5573 $14.95 US plus $3.00 US Postage Hardcover Ages 7 to 12. Love You Forever Written by Robert Munch Illustrated by Sheila McGraw 1986 Firefly Books, Annick Press $4.95 Soft cover Ages 3 to 6 For parents and teachers [...]
Going It Alone Unplanned Single Motherhood in Canada Janet Ajzenstat, Elizabeth Cassidy, Elize Carter, Gerald Bierling Human Life Research Institute, 1994 131 pages, $15.00 Order from HLRI (416) 693-7030 Many of the women in Going It Alone say they went on with the pregnancy because they knew they could be good mothers. The researchers observe that, “Their high regard for themselves is [...]
When is it Right to Die? Suicide, Euthanasia, Suffering, Mercy Joni Eareckson Tada Since a diving accident 25 years ago, Joni Eareckson Tada has lived as a quadriplegic. Sometimes her depression seemed as paralyzing as her spinal cord injury. When is it Right to Die? not only draws on her own experience with disability and despair but also looks at the lives [...]
Laugh, I Thought I’d Die My Life with ALS Dennis Kaye Viking, Penguin Books Canada Ltd., Toronto 264 pages, $25.99 hardcover Reviewed by Sue Careless For someone with a degenerative illness, Dennis Kaye’s got a great sense of humour. His muscles are wasting away with ALS. Yet the one muscle exertion that doesn’t sap energy but rejuvenates is laughter and Kaye employs [...]
Terry Anderson (New York, Crown Publishers, pp320, $29.95) How long could you stay sane locked in leg irons, blindfolded, housed on little more than a mattress, fearing torture and death at the whim of your captors, uncertain whether the person you love the most will be waiting for you should you survive? One year? Two? Three at the most? On March 16, [...]
A very broad interpretation of the terms “watching and besetting” has landed three Vancouver activists with suspended jail sentences for their pro-life counseling in front of Everywoman’s Health Centre. Christine Hendrix and Gordon Watson were handed a 15-day suspended sentence for breaking an injunction outside the abortion clinic. John Hof, president of Campaign Life Coalition B.C., said one of the picketers was [...]
The Gay Issue, 40 min. $25.00 (1993) With The Homosexual Challenge by Dr. Don Faris ($12 per book). Video and book combined: $29.95. From Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (905) 479-5885. Understanding Homosexuality and the Reality of Change, 60 min. $29.95 U.S. (1993) From Impact Resources Corp. 1 (800) 333-6475. We all know former alcoholics, people who have escaped from a history of [...]
Remains of the Day Starring: Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson Everything about the new production of Remains of the Day is restrained. The movie is all about English reserve and Anthony Hopkins, who plays the butler, James Stevens, shows this particular British trait to a tragic degree. Restraint, and devotion to duty, is what makes him such an outstanding servant and allows [...]
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Charles Grodin, Kyra Sedgwick Try finding a movie acceptable to two middle-aged males (who prefer the shoot ‘em up macho stereotype), one middle aged female (who rarely goes to the movies because of the no-smoking policy) and one 18-year-old female (who rarely goes to anything with anyone over the age of 25). The other three honoured my choice [...]
Clement Loscher (Gaithersburg, MD, Human Life Int., 1992, pp 193) How abortion entered Ireland The word “scandal” is written all over this book. It is not the scandal of a 14-year-old girl (referred to simply as X) being denied an abortion – the event which brought Dublin students into the streets chanting “keep your rosaries off our ovaries,” brought shocked denunciations from [...]
Rita Marker (New York, William Morrow and Company, 1993, pp 302, $24.95) The deadly truth about euthanasia It seems more likely as a plot for an ambitious novel than the basis for a true story: the co-founder if a radical pro-euthanasia group seeks out and then becomes a dear friend of the founder of an anti-euthanasia group. But it did happen, Rita [...]
Starring Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow, Janie Turner Incredible scenery and awesome, nail-biting climbing scenes are all yours—for a price. As has been the trend by Hollywood for some years, Cliffhanger gives and takes. It gives spectacular visuals and action and takes your innocence and your sense of decency and innate respect for life. Repeated, cold-blooded, as-realistic-as-possible, as-callous-as-possible murders occur throughout. Opponents viciously [...]
Starring Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Sir Richard Attenborough Make no mistake. Jurassic Park is a scary movie and should not be confused for a heavyweight E.T. It is also funny, thrilling, awe-inspiring and thoroughly believable. The special effects are simply mind-boggling. The life which Spielberg’s special effects team has breathed into the dusty skeletons found in museums is so realistic [...]
AIDS: Rage & Reality – Why Silence is Deadly Gene Antonio Kate Fillon’s column in the Globe and Mail for May 13, 1993 carried an account of Fashion Cares, the annual gala to raise money for the AIDS Committee of Toronto. She described two young men, so emaciated that every bone in their rib cages was visible, shambling around a stage “holding [...]
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