A coalition of New Brunswick Christians wants the human rights legislation used to force Fredericton mayor Brad Woodside to declare a "gay pride weekend" amended or repealed. Led by the Rev. Karl Csaszar, pastor of Fredericton's Skyline Acres Baptist Church, the group met on March 17 with Joan Kingston, the government minister responsible for New Brunswick's Human Rights Act, to request that [...]
Anarchists, Communists, feminists, and gay activists litter Toronto with hate propaganda The war of words started well before Human Life International arrived in Toronto for its 18th World Conference on Love, Life and the Family April 7-11. As for previous HLI conferences in other years in Ottawa and Montreal, an assortment of leftist- and liberal-oriented groups launched an array of verbal and [...]
Study intended to gauge true status of Canadian families The National Foundation for Family Research and Education has achieved something remarkably rare and refreshing: an honest and thorough examination of the economic, social, and psychological health of Canadian families. The NFFRE recently published the Family Health Index, which examines family breakdown, teen pathologies such as drug use and suicide, health care, and [...]
Under Dalton McGuinty, the Ontario Liberal Party has moved firmly to the left on almost every social issue, to the point that it is now almost indistinguishable from the provincial NDP on life and family issues. The most noticeable swing to the left took place in last fall's announcement in Kingston that McGuinty would change provincial law so that same-sex couples would [...]
Radio therapist Dr. Laura would say they're "shacked up;" your grandparents might say they're "living in sin." Now, social science backs up what was until recently the common moral belief: living together before marriage is bad news. David Popenoe, a Rutgers university sociologist and Barbara Defoe Whitehead, author of the book Divorce Culture, as co-authors of the report "Should We Live Together? What [...]
The recent decision of the B.C. Supreme Court which found that, despite a risk of harm, there was a "right" under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to possess child pornography, reveals a flawed approach to "freedom of expression" and the concept of "privacy." What is striking about the decision is that the notion of the person it shows is dangerously individualistic [...]
Truth forever on the scaffold; Wrong forever on the throne. - James Russell Lowell The distinguished American historian, Daniel Boorstin, stated back in 1961 in his book, The Image, that fantasy had become more real than reality, the image more dignified than its original. If it is possible, his insight is more true today, and the situation it describes is more pervasive [...]
Hands up everyone who has seen Titanic! [lots of hands, loud cheers]. Hands up everyone who thought it was a great movie! [lots of hands and loud cheers again]. Hands up everyone who's planning to rent it now that it's out on video! [hands, cheers, etc.]. Now, let's have a show of hands from all those who think Jesus would have watched it! [...]
Hamilton newspaper office receives more threatening packages Police in Canada and the U.S. continue to be on the lookout for James Charles Kopp, wanted as a material witness in the Oct. 23 slaying of Buffalo abortionist Barnett Slepian, while the Hamilton Spectatornewspaper continues to receive mailings threatening further harm to abortionists, in some of the latest developments surrounding the case of the so-called [...]
"Windsor is in the midst of an unprecedented baby boom, with a 14 per cent increase in births, bucking a national trend which saw [over] 5,000 fewer babies born in Canada this year." So read the opening paragraph of a front-page Windsor Star article on December 6, 2000, which proudly proclaimed the city of Windsor, Ontario as Canada's newest "(baby) boom town." While [...]
Little shocks Université de Montréal criminologist Marc LeBlanc anymore, but the latest statistics on youth crime, which indicate that Québec adolescents are becoming more violent than ever before, were enough to give him pause. In a 1990 report on an ongoing study of youth violence, Professor LeBlanc concluded that the rate of violent youth crime in Québec had stabilized. In 1997, he [...]
Following on our August feature article on Rock for Life, a network of pro-life rock bands, The Interimoffers the thoughts of a devout young Roman Catholic who has decided listening to secular rock music is incompatible with her call to Christian discipleship. So, you've given your life to Christ. You've started to like going to mass. You're saying the Rosary more than [...]
A severely brain-damaged woman confined to a Montréal-area psychiatric institution is pregnant, and her mother, the police, and the public curator want answers. The 34-year-old woman, known as "L" in news reports, has been hospitalized since an accident when she was 12. She cannot speak, and is unable to consent to sex. L was made a ward of the public curator when [...]
On Sept. 2, police in 12 countries simultaneously arrested almost 50 people. The sting, dubbed Operation Cathedral, was described by authorities as "the most extensive child pornography sting in history." Begun by the British National Crime Squad six months ago, it uncovered a database with more than 100,000 pornographic photographs. Police have seized "boxes of pornography, various software materials, and hardware," 8mm [...]
Erin Pizzey, the founder of the world's first battered women's shelter, told a recent Toronto workshop on domestic violence that "men and women (are) equally able to be perpetrators of domestic violence." In 1971, Pizzey opened Chiswick Women's Aid in London, England. "Of the first 100 women coming into the refuge, 62 were as violent or more violent than the partners they [...]