Editor’s note: Due to the author’s overarching desire to re-establish to the postmodern West such qualities as morality, civility and the classical modes of rhetoric, she has replaced in the following all quoted uses of the word under discussion with “eff,” with appropriate grammatical derivations thereof. That “eff,” “effing,” “eff off,” “eff about” and “eff up” have entered the general lexicon through [...]
He’s done it again. Before retiring this spring at the age of 75 – despite never having even been a judge or practising lawyer before attaining the pinnacle of the judiciary in his province – Ontario Chief Justice Roy McMurtry has taken one more kick at the traditional family structure by ruling, with Justices Marc Rosenberg and Jean-Marc Labrosse, that a five-year-old [...]
A Burlington, Ont.-based organization, which will be the recipient of funds raised at the Feb. 10 With Love Comes Hope concert in Hamilton, is working in 51 countries around the world to combine education and mission with the goal of ensuring everyone has access to Christian education. Worldwide Christian Schools was founded in the mid-1980s in Grand Rapids, Mich. and a sister [...]
P.E.I. and Nova Scotia were the last two Canadian provinces to prohibit widespread Sunday shopping. P.E.I.’s pharmacies, corner stores and similar small operations have long been permitted to open on Sundays, but large retailers were restricted to the last four weeks before Christmas. Nova Scotia’s beleaguered government abandoned the battle this fall after a court permitted large retailers to open on Sundays. [...]
“Will the shofar be blown in the city and the populace will not tremble?” (Amos 3:6) When Rabbi Yehuda Levin blows the shofar at Washington’s annual March for Life, he is continuing a two-decade tradition there, initiated by Jews for Morality. And by using a ram’s horn on each anniversary of Roe v. Wade, he is also placing the pro-life cause within the [...]
“Did I hear you gentlemen say, ‘Pro-life’?” She was the only woman in the restaurant in which I happened to be grabbing a late lunch with CLC Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. secretary Bill Murphy. We had crossed the St. Marys River to Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., where our friend Tony Stackpoole owned and operated Cup-a-Day restaurant. Tony was Bill’s counterpart with Sault [...]
Last Fall, federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said that his government intends to introduce pension splitting for seniors and that the Conservatives are open to income splitting for couples. The idea is to let couples split their income between them to pay lower taxes as a unit than the higher income earner or pensioner would individually. Presently, Canadians are taxed as individuals [...]
A new day has arrived for those of us who believe in the pro-life cause in Canada. We all remember the days when Human Life International had its charity status revoked for alleged political activity, while other pro-life groups were harassed by what is now known as the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency. Well, it’s time to level the playing field. In [...]
The homosexual “marriage” issue has fortunately awakened many sleeping Christians. Many, however, do not realize that homosexuals are pawns being used for political purposes in a culture war. The international socialist movement is using homosexuals as an excuse to further a socialist, anti-religious agenda. What better way to muzzle Christians than to pass “hate” legislation limiting churches’ freedom of speech? What better [...]
A Toronto-based group, Sex Professionals of Canada, is suing the federal government for maintaining laws criminalizing prostitution and thereby, they claim, endangering the lives of “sex trade workers.” The group’s executive director, Valerie Scott, said that communicating and bawdyhouse laws “are arbitrary,” and “do more harm than good.” The group is challenging Canada’s solicitation laws on constitutional grounds. SPOC calls itself a [...]
Following the tawdry example of theatres in England and the United States, the Grand Theatre of London, Ont. recently lured customers with a stage adaptation of the movie The Graduate that featured a lead actress appearing stark naked on the stage. Not to be outdone, London’s Centennial Hall has presented The Puppetry of the Penis, a play in which two [...]
Young Christian couples are rethinking contraceptive use and biblical teaching on human sexuality, in response to a growing awareness of the social damage caused by the sexual revolution, a foremost leader in the U.S evangelical community told Christianity Today magazine in October. Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., is a theologian and ordained minister, serving as president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, [...]
Physician-assisted suicide in the state of Oregon will be officially referred to as “death with dignity” from now on, the Oregon Department of Human Services has decided. Responding to pressure from the pro-euthanasia organization Compassion & Choice, the DHS initially agreed to change “physician-assisted suicide” to “physician-assisted death,” part of an effort to employ “friendlier” language by the movement, in order to [...]
Israel was born on May 14, 1948. The newly birthed nation had time for only a few breaths before her Muslim neighours – Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq – hurled themselves on her in a war of annihilation. However, Israel repulsed the invaders and survived to fight four more major wars, plus innumerable minor conflicts, over the next 58 years. [...]
The Charter of Rights of 1982 continues to dismantle the last remnants of our Christian culture in Canada. On Sept. 22, the Quebec Tribunal of Human Rights ordered the City of Laval, a suburb north of Montreal, to stop the traditional practice of prayer before the monthly city meetings. Mayor Gilles Vaillancourt has continued this good tradition despite a citizen’s formal complain [...]