Today is the 28th of November 1990. Last evening I watched the CBC news with horror. In the first news item, Douglas Archer, the Ontario Auditor, reported that the care of seniors and mentally handicapped people in homes is so inadequate that a number of deaths have resulted. He gave the opinion that the Ministry of Community and Social Services is “kind [...]
Fighting provincial government policies that are skewed in favour of mothers working outside the home is a major preoccupation of a newly formed group in British Columbia. West Coast Women for Family Values are established recently to “promote laws and policies promoting family life,” says one of the foundress, Kathleen Higgins of Delta, B.C. “The work of mothers at home really needed [...]
The following questionnaire was given to Grade 10 students at Notre Dame High School in Welland, Ontario. On December 10, 1990, the school nurse first explained various contraceptive devices. She then invited the children to come up and inspect them and learn how they are to be used. The children were told that some time later, in the year someone would come [...]
The following story first appeared in the September 24, 1990 issue of the Brandon Sun, under the headline “Natural mother makes unique sacrifice by giving up her child.” It’s reprinted here with permission. I remember that it was a sunny morning, a nice one to sit on the front steps of my parents home and think about the future. I was my [...]
Queen’s Park, Toronto Ontario Premier Bob Rae’s office claimed they had never seen the letter from the Ontario Conference of Catholic Bishops (OCCB), urging the NDP government to reconsider its new policy of providing easier access to killing of the unborn. The letter from the president of the OCCB, Bishop John O’Mara, was dated November 19, 1990. It was reported in a [...]
Book Review The case against pornography by Donald E. Wildmon, Wheaton, Illinois: Victor Books, 1986. 204 pp. The Rev. Donald Wildmon, a United Methodist minister, is executive director of the American Family Association. He founded the National Federation for Decency in 1988, and both before and after writing this book he has been heavily involved in 1988, and both before and after [...]
The Alberta Federation of Women United for Families (AFWUF) held its annual conference November 2 to 3, in Red Deer, Alberta. Approximately 200 registrants attended the conference entitled “In this together.” The conference addressed the issues of pornography, sex education, post-abortion trauma, childcare, women and stress, political strategies, family violence and sexual abuse. AFWUF was formed in 1981 by seven Alberta women [...]
Call me alarmist if you will, but Canada is in a statist crisis. Our country is on the path towards state intervention in nearly every corner of life. This includes education, the economy, family policy, health, human rights and welfare. Our largest province was captured by the NDP in September, and recent polls indicate that the Socialists may take over the entire [...]
In Canada, the Mulroney government has increased the annual subsidies for Planned Parenthood overseas by annual grants between seven and eight million dollars. (In 1988 the grant was $7,121,000.) PP’s policies overseas, needless to say, carry the same anti-familly7, anti-child message as those at home. The Canadian government also subsidizes other agencies with policies similar to Planned Parenthood’s. In August, the Canadian [...]
Science writer Stephen Strauss gave two excellent examples of how numbers can mislead in the Globe and Mail for November 10. On October 19, a Toronto AIDS conference was told that women were the fastest-growing AIFDS risk group, and the last to accept that they are at risk. Fifty per cent of the women infected with the virus, it was reported, contracted [...]
In preparation for AIDS Awareness Week at the University of Toronto (Oct. 15-21, 1990) the Ontario Ministry of Health placed full-page ads in the student newspapers asking, “Are you having sex in the dark?’ Ignorance is far from bliss, the message below said; enlightenment means using condoms, “Not occasionally, not usually, but always.” “If you’re embarrassed about buying condoms,” the ad declared, [...]
Charlottetown. An announcement this spring that two local high schools were to undergo extensive renovations was recognized by local promoters of institutional day care as a golden opportunity. Chief among them was Dianne Porter, immediate past Chairperson of the PEI Advisory Council on Status of Women, a longtime daycare advocate who was active for years on the executive of the Canadian Child [...]
ACT-UP is a North America-wide organization of militant homosexuals and lesbians who publicly and physically confront prominent members of the ‘straight’ community who are hostile to ‘gay rights.’ In the U.S., ACT-UP/New York invaded St. Patrick’s Cathedral in December 1989 during a religious service conducted by Cardinal John O’Connor. They proceeded to disrupt it with screaming and yelling obscenities and trampling upon [...]
As indicated in The Interim’s October editorial, the Ontario NDP will not innovate but, rather, intensify the anti-life mentality which already prevails in the province of Ontario. Most likely it will broaden the attack on the moral foundations of the family in such areas as schooling. For over a hundred years the socialist/materialist philosophy has called for abolition of the family. Free [...]
In preparation for AIDS Awareness Week at the University of Toronto (Oct. 15-21, 1990) the Ontario Ministry of Health placed full-page ads in the student newspapers asking, “Are you having sex in the dark?’ Ignorance is far from bliss, the message below said; enlightenment means using condoms, “Not occasionally, not usually, but always.” “If you’re embarrassed about buying condoms,” the ad declared, [...]