“The teaching of human sexuality is now the rule in most jurisdictions,” states Sex Education in Canada: A survey of policies and programs. “It is taught at all grade levels from kindergarten to the end of secondary school.” But despite this universality, authors Janet Ajzenstat and Ian Gentles conclude that without “statistically sound Canadian studies,” it is impossible to know what impact [...]
Like many another British Columbian, Nina Hunter is “affronted and frightened” by her premier’s style of government. In a letter to the Toronto Globe on March 10, she added her voice to the chorus of others condemning the premier for his high-handedness. “While election confers the mandate to govern,” she wrote, “it also implies the obligation to govern wisely. The complexity of [...]
Rome: The Vatican has condemned the use of in vitro fertilization and in the Charter of Rights of the Family, put out by the Holy See, it stated that “human life must be absolutely respected and protected from the moment of conception.” The fact that 90% of babies “started” using the method of I.V.F., are never born, is proof enough that this [...]
Another “medical miracle”, the fertility drug, bears closer study, reported Marilyn Linton of the Toronto Sun. Women seeking help with infertility are given these drugs to stimulate egg production. This often results in multiple births with as many as four or five babies being born. This is an amazing burden for any new parents to cope with. There are also terrible side [...]
Saskatoon: According to the Vice President of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB), Most Rev. Robert Lebel, handing out clean needles or condoms to reduce the spread of AIDS should be supported by the Christian community. “We shouldn’t lay a guilt trip on health-care workers because we don’t approve of condoms,” he told members of the Catholic Health Association of Canada. [...]
Toronto: Metro Toronto “celebrated” its eighth annual Lesbian and Gay Pride Day on Sunday, June 26. Guest of honour was Vancouver homosexual MP Svend Robinson, who spoke at the Metropolitan Community “church”, which claims to find justification for sodomy in Christianity. Robinson and lesbian Karen Andrews rode in a 1968 Olds convertible as grand marshals of the parade which counted over 10,000 [...]
Do right-to-life arguments receive a fair hearing in the media? No one who follows out daily papers closely could consider that they present a balanced view of abortion. The Toronto Star, the paper with the largest circulation in Canada, is a case in point. Over a three and a half period, it has carried nine editorials dealing with abortion. On January 28, [...]
Atikokan District High School students applauded Premier David Peterson for what the Toronto Star called “an enlightened lesson in sex education.” Practice safe sex was the advice the Premier gave to 420 children ages 12 to 17. Peterson was responding to questions about the Ontario Government’s funding for research into treatment for AIDS. But since no cure for the disease has been [...]
A study commissioned by Health and Welfare Canada and the Medical Research Council has recommended that both federal and provincial governments should distribute free condoms and syringes, and provide facilities for decontaminating needles, to those whose behaviour puts them at risk for AIDS. The report, called AIDS: A Perspective for Canadians, was prepared by the Royal Society of Canada. It is said [...]
Introduction In February 1988, The Interim published a news report about Covenant House, a Catholic social agency in Toronto. The report dealt chiefly with the agency’s policy of handing out condoms to clients judged a risk for catching AIDS. Indeed, the initiative for the story flowed from an article on “street kids” in the Toronto Sun in December 1987, which reported that [...]
Te 1988 General Council of the United Church of Canada (UCC) could be an historical one, depending upon how it deals with the issue of ordination of homosexuals. Dr. Anne Squire, UCC moderator, provides an interesting preview into the council, in a Religion Page interview published last December in the Halifax Chronical Herald, with a David Harris byline. Harris leads with Squire [...]
The nation’s capital, Ottawa, hosted an interesting conference in late February when members and delegates of the Canadian Council for Family Rights met to discuss their concerns and seek solutions for the post-divorce family. Family rights were very much on the agenda, yet what was interesting about this conference was the fact that proponents of new family responsibilities were those who have [...]
Svend Robinson, NDP MP of Burnaby, has come “out of the closet,” as homosexual parlance has it, thereby strengthening the relentless drive to make the sordid homosexual “lifestyle” acceptable. Robinson has long crusaded for so-called “sexual orientation” to be protected under the anti-discrimination clauses of the Canada Human Rights Act. In November 1986, he proposed in the House of Common Justice Committee [...]
Canadians are being urged to demand a strong new law to prohibit abortion at any stage, Cardinal Carter told Prime Minister Mulroney in a letter dated February 29, 1988. In a strongly worded letter, endorsed by a range of officials including the president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, Emmett Cardinal Carter told Ottawa that “ permanent legislation… must be introduced [...]
The regulation of Sunday shopping in Ontario is now thoroughly muddled and likely to become more so. That is because Ontario Solicitor General Joan Smith has announced that instead of maintaining province-wide legislation, the government will hand the responsibility over to the municipalities. The pressure on municipalities to allow Sunday opening of all stores will be immense, if not irresistible, should a [...]