The Sally Ann and abortion In the June 10 edition of its newspaper Warcry, the Salvation Army printed its stance on abortion. This position is highlighted by the first sentence which says that the Salvation Army believes in the sanctity of all human life. It further goes on to state that they “support measures necessary to prevent any crisis pregnancy but are [...]
Quebec’s tradition of large, strong families may have ended, and the reasons for this radical change are rooted in its recent history. The shift in political, cultural and economic power which grew out of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec included a move away from the Catholic Church, which many considered complicit in the oppression of the Quebecois. By repudiating the Church, however, [...]
The United Nations Population Division has no clear idea how many people there will be in the world, even within the next 50 years. One projection says the world’s population could actually drop by a billion people within the next half century. Yet family planning programmes continue even though in many countries, such as Nigeria, there are far fewer people than was [...]
Answer each question true or false. The correct answers and references are listed below. WORLD SIZE AND POPULATION The total area of the world is about 197 million square miles. The total land area of the world is about 73 million square miles. The world population is about 4 billion people. Everybody in the world could lie down in one city with [...]
“The only thing that I was thinking of was – get the baby out” (Hamilton Spectator, February 4, 1993) The above quote refers to the heroics of a policeman who rescued a frightened child in a dark, smoke-filled apartment unit. The officer risked his life to find the victim under a bed, unconscious. As he dragged her out, almost overcome with smoke, [...]
Charlottetown – After several years of on-again off-again efforts, Birthright has opened an office in downtown Charlottetown That it has finally become reality is largely dues to the efforts of Marg Hoganson, who moved here four years ago, brining with her six years of experience as a volunteer in Halifax. Birthright is non-sectarian, non-profit and designed to help any women greatly disturbed [...]
Interim Staff A pro-euthanasia group is using an emotionally-charged video of a terminally-ill woman to manipulate the public and Members of Parliament into changing the Criminal Code to allow euthanasia into Canada. The meetings of the Sub-Committee of the Standing Committee on Justice and the Solicitor General on the Recodification of the General Part of the Criminal Code do not usually receive [...]
“Nothing certain in people figures” was the heading of a Globe and Mail story on June 6 related to the conference on the environment in Rio de Janeiro. Reporter Christina Mungan pointed out that just establishing how many people there are in the world today is a major problem. For example, Nigeria’s 1991 census showed that Africa’s most populous country did not [...]
“Species out of control?” Rio’s United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development, held from June 3-14, 1992, was opened by the Conference’s secretary-general, Canadian-born Maurice Strong. “The human race,” Strong declared solemnly, is a “species out of control.” Strong is a New Age devotee and a member of the Club of Rome, which predicted in 1972 that the world would run [...]
Due to an aging population, Canadians should brace themselves for old age pensions at 70 and no more baby bonuses, a published think tank study reports. No longer will Canadians be able to retire at 65 and lounge around the beach in Florida. Nor will there be any government funds for their children’s children’s baby bonuses, the C.D. Howe Institute predicts in [...]
Halifax. Eco-feminism, according to a German feminist, is a solution to increasing ecological degradation. Dr. Maria Mies, a German sociologist from Cologne, believes that Eco-feminism, based on the fundamental “relatedness between all living things,” is an alternative to the threat of environmental extinction. In late February, Dr.Mies spoke to 200 people, mostly women, at the former Catholic Women’s College of Mount Saint [...]
A radical review of the Canadian Constitution in the offing could be seized as a chance to destroy the publicly-supported Catholic school system in all of Canada. This is what Tom Reilly, the Superintendent of Education of Dufferin-Peel RC Separate School Board, fears to some extent, as expressed in a letter dated September 19, 1991, to Donald Clune, the Chairman of the [...]
State control of population growth and family planning was foretold at the /Bucharest Conference in the 1960’s. China’s state policy of forced abortions, and India’s use of forced sterilizations followed. It seemed only too likely that the plague would spread. In 1991 the shoe fell with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of Norplant, the long-lasting, five year contraceptive implant. A [...]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration December 10, approved the first new contraceptive device since the IUD was introduced in the 1960s. Developed by the New York-based Population Council and marketed by the pharmaceutical giant Wyeth-Ayerst of Philadelphia, the device, called Norplant, consists of six matchstick-size rods that are implanted just under the skin. These rods time-release a hormone into the woman’s [...]
David Suzuki tells us that the Pope’s “pronouncement on birth control means the destruction of the planet.” (letter, October 17, 1990) It is said with all the arrogant finality of the secular humanist who denies the existence of God and instead confines his understanding of the world and its problems to what can be calculated. Suzuki is not alone in his narrow [...]