In the last issue of The Interim, Alex Schadenberg made several comments regarding the efforts to re-establish a national educational pro-life organization. The various options for the new organization are currently being developed by a steering committee mandated by the former affiliates of Alliance for Life Canada. First, contrary to comments made in the article, I would like to confirm that the educational [...]
The same day the Ontario government announced that abstinence must be taught in sex ed classes in all schools across the province, the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists heard at its annual conference that more teenagers are becoming sexually active, pregnant, and infected by sexually-transmitted diseases. On June 29, education minister Dave Johnson announced a new health and phys ed curriculum for [...]
The value of people getting involved to effect positive change at the grassroots level has been demonstrated once again, this time by a group of family activists in the Durham region, just east of Toronto. Citizens were prompted to action by an explicit sex education program directed at public school children with severe disabilities. One observer described the drawings used in the [...]
The Chastity Connection, a Canadian newsletter promoting abstinence as a positive alternative to premarital sex and promiscuity, is ceasing publication after 13 issues. Founded four years ago by Marilyn Bergeron of Cornwall, Ont., The Chastity Connection was the communications vehicle for the Canadian Alliance for Chastity (CAC), an organizing linking the diverse voices calling for a renewed emphasis on chastity education. “It’s [...]
LONDON, Ont. -- As a recent graduate of religious studies from the University of Western Ontario, Lorraine Scott has decided to take on a challenging, yet rewarding direction in life. Scott is a 22-year-old independent speaker in the southwestern Ontario region. Her ministry is called “Chastity: The Loving Alternative.” Scott is extremely busy speaking to youth ministry meetings, retreats, classrooms, confirmation preparation [...]
Interim staff A decision by the York Region public school board to encourage discussion of sexual orientation, abortion and other moral issues in classrooms is dividing parents and education officials as the schools break for the summer recess. It is similar to a case in British Columbia where the teachers’ federation, backed by provincial education minister, moved to introduce gay-positive materials into [...]
Efforts to introduce gay-positive materials into the British Columbia school system have led parents’ groups there to demand the resignation of the province’s education minister. The issue heated up in late March when the B.C. Teacher’s Federation passed a resolution calling for programs to eliminate homophobia from the province’s public school system. The teachers also approved a motion to provide leadership in [...]
The Power to Win: Overcoming Pornography Produced by Windborne Productions Available from Evangelical Fellowship of Canada Tel: 905-479-4742 48 minutes, $25.00 Neither graphic nor offensive Power to Win breaks the myth that if you are a Christian, married to an attractive spouse, you should have no problems with porn. In The Power to Win two married couples and one single man talk [...]
Pro-life communities are not the only ones making an appeal young people. A recent item circulated by Pro-Life E News Canada shows that Planned Parenthood of America is also looking to appeal to youth. PP has designated May as National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month. To mark the occasion, PP has invited teenagers from across America to discuss “responsible, healthy choices” made regarding [...]
OTTAWA – REAL Women of Canada, in a recent letter to Justice Minister Allan Rock, has urged that the age of consent for sexual activity by young persons with adults be raised from 14 years to 18 years of age. The concerns over this age of consent have been exacerbated in recent weeks by the revelations of repeated acts of sexual misconduct [...]
We live in a society with soft pretensions to self-knowledge, decency, democracy and the respect for human rights. The illusion is becoming more difficult to sustain. The tangle of pathology revealed by increasing rates of theft, violence, addiction, demoralization, familial breakdown, and educational failure, once confined to the fringe, has expanded to most parts of society. Political, social and economic remedies put [...]
"The big lie of pornography is, 'There are no victims.' I am a victim of pornography" claims Tonya Flynt-Vega, the daughter of Larry Flynt, owner and publisher of the hard core porn magazine, Hustler. Flynt-Vega says the film, The People vs. Larry Flynt, paints her father as a free press champion. "He's not a hero. He's a pornographer, a pimp and a [...]
Recently two school boards in opposite ends of Canada, B.C. and Ontario, voted to remove Planned Parenthood sex education programs from their schools. Why? What is it about this organization and its programs that create such controversy? If we ignore their statement on being “pro-choice”, Planned Parenthood seems benign enough. It appears to be an open-minded, tolerant group, respectful of the opinions [...]
Interim staff Second-year sociology students as Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario are being assigned to write a “coming out” letter as their first fall-term assignment. “Coming out” is a term used by homosexuals to declare publicly their sexual orientation. The second-year Sociology of Women course at Wilfrid Laurier University requires undergraduates to prepare a letter in which “you put yourself in [...]
A few months ago Ontario’s schools took on full implication of the Ministry of Education’s Common Curriculum. A document packed with politically correct values to be imposed on children such as “no discrimination based on sexual orientation.” As if it wasn’t bad enough to inflict big-brother-type indoctrination in Ontario, the UN is now proposing “a global strategy to improve schooling systems.” The [...]