The Ontario NDP now finds itself on the side of the angels in its support for a common day of rest for all Ontario residents. The villains are both the Liberal and the Tories who have now caved into the wishes of the big retailers who want wide-open Sundays. Quagmire But it is unlikely that the new Bill 115, which was to [...]
ANGLICANS In our October issue the report on the Episcopalian triennial convention in Phoenix, Arizona, last July focused on homosexual permissiveness. It showed how deeply moral issues have divided the Anglican Church in the U.S., with leading spokesmen acknowledging a complete deadlock and a split into “two religions.” The September issue of Toronto-based Anglican Journal briefly notes that abortion, too, was brought [...]
This fifth editorial on the abortion mentality in Canada concerns pro-life tactics. Let us say at once that many people, including those who consider themselves opposed to abortion, are not fond of pro-lifers. Indeed, their faces turn grim when they speak about pro-life activists, whether the political ones who confront politicians, the educational kind when they show pictures of aborted babies, or [...]
The recent U.S. Senate hearing which preceded the confirmation of Judge Clarence Thomas as a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, left the nation reeling. In one of the most vicious inquisitions witnessed by Americans, much of the brotherhood which was previously spread from sea to shining sea was drowned in the muddy waters of indiscriminate character assassination. As a result of [...]
For a mall newspaper like The Interim, it is impossible to cover trustee elections adequately in view of the short campaign and the large number of candidates. In the following story, The Interim reports on the Separate (Catholic) School Board candidates who favour more doctrinal content in religious education and the elimination of secularism in family life (sex education) programs. * * [...]
A Bill intended to change the Criminal Code and allow physicians to kill their patients passed its first reading in the House of Commons, June 19, 1991. The Bill C-261, is the brainchild of the NDP member for Saskatoon-Clark’s Crossing, Chris Axworthy. * * * * Certain steps are required before a doctor inserts the needle and injects the poison. The person [...]
Ontario MPPs would be prudent to learn from U.S. experience when they consider Bill 108, Substitute Decisions, and Bill 109, Consent to Treatment Act. Living Wills and Substituted Judgment in the United States directly threaten the lives of many handicapped people as well as the old and the “unwanted.” Today, many people are afraid. The Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps (TASH), [...]
As long as one year ago, the International Inquiry Commission on RU-486 released a strong condemnation of the drug. It has taken a full year before the existence of the report has been revealed. The report seems to have been stonewalled by the media. The International Commission, with its headquarters in France, says that RU-486 even combined with prostaglandin’s, is ineffective in [...]
Toronto – On September 20, 1991, Judge Donald Graham ruled that corporate, public prayer within 500 feet of Henry Morgentaler’s Toronto abortuary, at 85 Harbord Street, is prohibited under the terms of the injunction issued in May 1989 by Mr. Justice Craig. Quiet prayer On March 9, 1991, twenty people met for quiet prayer in the lane behind the Morgentaler ‘clinic.’ This [...]
When it comes to AIDS, educational videos abound. And for the most part, they are produced either directly by or through funding from government and government agencies. To date, their message has been monotonously uniform: to prevent infection by HIV, use a condom. (HIV, human immunodeficient virus, is the known cause of AIDS). Wise message Into this steady stream of ‘safe sex’ [...]
Hospitals Richmond, B.C. – On July 26, Ken MacQueen, reporting from British Columbia for the Toronto Star, struck a note of panic. He informed his readers that “hospital boards are the front-line of the pro-life movement” in Vernon, B.C., in Dauphin, Manitoba and “in dozens of other communities across Canada.” States Mr. MacQueen: “the superb political machine of the pro-life activists kicks [...]
By a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that nude dancers can be prosecuted under public indecency laws and table dancers are required to wear G strings. The court overturned a ruling that nude dancing was a form of expression entitled to protection under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. At issue was the right of topless and bottomless [...]
Students of Modern Philosophy appreciate the Bon Mot that Rene Descartes’ great blunder was to put [De Cartes’]before [De Horse.] In making thought prior to experience, this 17th century philosopher, who is alternately called the Father of Modern Philosophy and the Father of Modern Confusion, got things exactly reversed. His famous adage, ‘I think, therefore, I am,’ did not capture what really [...]
“I am gay and I hate it. I want to be like everyone else and marry and have kids. Please give me the name of a therapist who will make me heterosexual.” - A letter to Sue Johanson in her book, Talk Sex. One could weep over Sue Johanson’s response: “No qualified therapist would try to make you heterosexual – that would [...]
Abortion Failure Vancouver – (FNIF) Another woman is suing her doctor for abortion failure. Cynthia Mostad is suing Dr. Kennard Robertson for not killing her unborn child, and wants compensation for the “great expense” and “supreme mental anguish” that have resulted. Her boy, Caylen, will soon celebrate his first birthday. Much of the Mostad case is being built on a previous case [...]