Dina Kok The Interim According to a recent study released by the Parents Television Council, an American advocacy organization protecting youth against sex, violence and profanity in entertainment, children are exposed to astounding levels of sex and profanity, as compared to adult-targeted television. The study, entitled MTV Smut Peddlers: Targeting Kids with Sex, Drugs and Alcohol, reports that children are exposed to [...]
Doreen Beagan The Interim Late last year, a new sex-education curriculum for Grades 6-8 was introduced into New Brunswick schools, over many protests. The Middle School Growth and Development program grew out of an earlier study by a team of University of New Brunswick researchers in co-operation with the new Brunswick government. Sandra Byers, a psychology professor at the Univeristy of New [...]
David Bolton The Interim Among the latest Hollywood film offerings is Kinsey - a sanitized, celebratory biography of sexologist Alfred Kinsey, starring Liam Neeson in the title role. This film is another attempt to whitewash the career of this "research scientist," who in actual fact, was a notorious sexual deviant skewing research data to promote a perverse agenda. While Hollywood celebrates Kinsey's [...]
Late last year, a new sex-education curriculum for Grades 6-8 was introduced into New Brunswick schools, over many protests. The Middle School Growth and Development program grew out of an earlier study by a team of University of New Brunswick researchers in co-operation with the new Brunswick government. Sandra Byers, a psychology professor at the Univeristy of New Brunswick and professional sex [...]
Tony Gosgnach The Interim Attendance at a recent, annual Toronto exhibition of all things sexual is reported to have been down significantly, and activism by concerned local Christians is being credited with playing a role in that development. Under new ownership, the Fifth Annual Everything to Do With Sex Show took place on the grounds of the Canadian National Exhibition Oct. 28-31. [...]
For much of this past year, concerned Nova Scotians have fought, in every way open to them, to keep Sex? - A Healthy Sexuality Resource out of their schools. Cape Breton's Strait District School Board, chaired by George Kehoe, flatly rejected the book. Despite initial reservations in some regions, other English-language school boards are now distributing it to students aged 12 to [...]
According to a recent study, teenagers who watch television programs with sexual content are two times as likely to engage in sexual activity at an earlier age than their peers who do not watch such shows. The study was released Sept. 7 in Pediatrics, a journal published by the American Academy of Pediatrics. While the results of this study are not groundbreaking, [...]
Prime Minister Paul Martin could hardly have made two worse appointments to the Supreme Court of Canada than Madam Justice Rosalie Abella and Madam Justice Louise Charron. As judges on the Ontario Court of Appeal, this pair of judicial activists has demonstrated supreme contempt for both democracy and the rule of law. Consider Abella's ruling in R. v. C.M., 1995 OCA - [...]
Viacom runs ads after Pattison refuses to run such 'porn' Interim Staff Editor's Note: There are graphic descriptions of sexual content in this story. Health Canada and a handful of AIDS groups are running a new national HIV ad campaign targeting homosexual men, which features graphic black-and-white photographs of men apparently engaging in sexual acts. The ads contain slogans such, "He came [...]
We'd like to remind Interim readers that the last opportunity to make known opposition to the reclassification of the so-called morning-after pill is almost here. In May, the Health Canada agency announced its intentions to allow the drug, formally known as levonorgestrel, to be available over-the-counter at pharmacies without a doctor's prescription. Pro-life advocates have been opposing this reclassification on a number [...]
A decade ago, Elizabeth Taylor was going from one celebrity AIDS rally to another, urging us to make sure we "use a condom every time you have sex, every time." Every time, Liz? Apparently so, until one day mankind is extinct and giant condoms roam the earth, bouncing across the ruins of our civilization like playful prophylactics in animated Scandinavian health ministry [...]
Nova Scotia's Department of Health is aiming to put a new sex ed book in the hands of all students in Grades 7-12. It is not to be a take-home text. Although still in the draft stage, Sex? has already caused some commotion in the province. One paper called it a sex manual. Through the Depart-ment of Education, the Department of Health [...]
Editor's note: This article contains some graphic descriptions of a sexual education session. It was another Women's Health Matters Forum and Expo - and another opportunity for Planned Parenthood and the Bay Centre for Birth Control to impart their immoral and dangerous views on sexual health to impressionable high school-aged girls. The two joined in staging a multi-media "What's Your Sexual Health [...]
By Tony Gosgnach The InterimA talk given by an obstetrician-gynecologist from St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, a Catholic institution, at this year's Women's Health Matters Forum and Expo - and subsequent reporting on the event by Interim and LifeSite news service personnel - has prompted the hospital to correct its internal processes on how its physicians represent the hospital's mission and values. [...]
Media affairs dominate this edition of Corporate Watch. In the wake of the Janet Jackson breast-baring episode during the Super Bowl half-time show, the spotlight is shining on the MTV television channel, which is owned by Viacom. The new website BoycottMTV.net has attracted more than 120,000 people, who say they will eschew a media outlet that, according to one British observer, has [...]