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 [...]
Although he lost an eye as a child, Tim Ladwig is today a renowned children's book illustrator. He believes that the art in picture books can be life-affecting. "Children respond to what is true," he says. Ladwig remembers as a child being moved by a picture book about the life of Jesus as seen through the Apostle Peter's eyes. He remembers thinking, [...]
A Toronto nurse has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of a gravely ill newborn. Police arrested Gita Proudman, an employee of the obstetrics ward of Toronto's Humber River Regional Hospital, on July 6 and released her on bail July 14. Her bail conditions are subject to a publication ban. Newborn infant Mustafa Dehzad was born in the [...]
Just days before its scheduled June 5 opening, the P.E.I. Women's Festival was told it was unwelcome at Camp Gencheff, a summer camp for young people with disabilities. Organizers expected to draw about 150 women from across Atlantic Canada for a weekend "whimsical celebration of witches," including a seance, a workshop on casting spells, and a "Bitches Ball," where women could "dance [...]
Some might look at Ken Wales and say he's a fish out of water. That's because the committed Christian has worked for decades in numerous capacities in a Hollywood film industry not usually noted for its affinity with the Christian faith. Yet Wales has not just survived in that milieu, he has thrived. Wales was in southern Ontario recently, and spoke with [...]
City councillors and the media celebrated Sunday, June 28 as a great step forward in sexual politics and enlightenment for our nation. As a great mass of gays, lesbians, and people of various other "orientations" marched through the streets of downtown Toronto, dressed in bizarre costumes and flaunting their exotic "lifestyles," our civic leaders revelled in the fact that this year's parade [...]
Earlier this spring, pro-life evangelist Ken Campbell purchased a full-page ad in The Globe and Mail. The ad condemned the "bathhouse morality" of many homosexuals, and argued against the recent Vriend decision, in which the Supreme Court of Canada forced Alberta to add "sexual orientation" to its human rights legislation. In the ad, Campbell said the ruling is an "assault on the [...]