Those Joneses always showing off their new toys. How can we live a life of humble virtue and quiet selflessness when they come into work after the holidays with the brand new iPhone? How can we feel good about our low-key Christmas when our neighbour was on a cruise in the Caribbean? How can we, who consider ourselves to be pro-family, believe [...]
A Statistics Canada analysis of the 2011 census is drawing public attention towards the status of the traditional family. “Portraits of Family and Living Arrangements in Canada” shows a small decline in traditional family arrangements from 2006 to 2011. There was a 3.1 per cent increase in married couples (including homosexual couples), while families led by single-parents and common-law couples increased by [...]
Ontario Education Minister Laurel Broten equated opposition to abortion with misogyny and said Catholic schools that promote pro-life activities might run afoul of the Accepting Schools Act. Ontario Education Minister Laurel Broten, taking part in a press conference in her other role as Minister Responsible for Women’s Issues, equated the pro-life position with hatred of women and said Catholic schools [...]
Ontario Education Minister Laurel Broten does not agree with the right of parents to opt out of controversial classes. A Hamilton, Ont.-area Christian father is suing his children’s public school board after they refused to allow him to withdraw his children from controversial lessons on sexuality. Dr. Steve Tourloukis, a dentist, says the suit comes after he has been asking [...]
Is being pro-life just choosing a side? Or does having a profound respect for all human life from conception to natural death define the way you live your life? On June 9, Jill Stanek had a blog post featuring the following question: “Should pro-lifers date/marry abortion proponents? The ideological divisions are quite deep, but are they surmountable for compatible coupling?” When asked [...]
The movement to cull the population of the developing world has taken a leap forward due to the work of a high-profile advocate. Melinda Gates, wife of the famous founder of Microsoft, used the multi-billion dollar charitable Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to co-sponsor, along with the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development, a family planning summit in London with [...]
WBO welterweight boxing champion and member of the Philippines House of Representatives Manny Pacquiao caused a storm of controversy when he said he opposed same-sex “marriage” and Examiner.com reporter Granville Ampong added a quote from Leviticus 20:13 (“If a man lies with a man… they must be put to death”) which the boxer did not utter. Immediately there were petitions [...]
Another tax season has come and gone. There is no other time of the year where I reveal my number-crunching-nerd-self to the world more than during tax-time. My goal as the stay-at-home wife is to read up on taxes and file them to maximize our benefits as a family. Unfortunately for my finances (although not for my family), the thing stopping my [...]
In many ways, the Canadian government promotes policies that dissuade responsible parenting and in some cases, encourage irresponsible parenting. In general, the Canadian tax code works against the traditional two-parent family. Income splitting between spouses is still a far-off dream. Also, there is the Canadian Child Tax Benefit which effectively pays parents progressively more the higher their degree of financial irresponsibility. The [...]
There have been several inspirational cases of women who have chosen to put their children’s lives ahead of their own by continuing with their pregnancy. The Toronto Star recently reported Thunder Bay, Ont., resident Sadie Stout, who had a rare tumour in her heart from a condition known as cardiac myxoma. The risk was that the tumour could break off at any [...]
Population and poverty are not inextricably linked According to demographers Joyce Burnette and Joel Mokyr, as humanity’s numbers have grown, our average standard of living has grown as well. These scientists wrote a paper entitled “The Standard of Living Through the Ages,” found in the book The State of Humanity. In it, they point out that every single statistic that we have [...]
“All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.” -- George Gordon Lord Byron Birth, as it is often said, is a miracle. A baby is born, a living, breathing, honest-to-goodness baby that you can hold in your arms. Just prior to delivery, it was something parents were expecting, but whose reality was still concealed. It was something [...]
In 2010, the Ontario Ministry of Education foisted an equity and inclusivity education policy (EIE) which seeks to eliminate racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry from schools, including so-called homophobia. Religious leaders are concerned that implementation of EIE policies could be a Trojan horse by which gay activists normalize the homosexual lifestyle in the eyes of students, including through Gay-Straight Alliances [...]
Ontario’s Equity and Inclusive Education Strategy (EIE) is meant to shape the entire educational system. Last month we showed how EIE disregards children’s social and emotional needs. This month’s critique continues with the some of the strategy’s implications for moral and spiritual development. Jesus told us how carefully we are to guard the purity of growing children. “He said to His disciples, [...]
Editor’s Note: This press release was sent by the Lutheran Church-Canada July 18 following the (liberal) Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada meeting which authorized pastors to conduct same-sex ‘marriages.” Responding to a vote by delegates at the convention of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) meeting in Saskatoon, July 15 and 16, which authorized its pastors to conduct same-gender marriages and [...]