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 [...]
Sony Music stirred up controversy during the 1996 Christmas season when it released the recordings O Come All Ye Faithful and Just Say Noel, which were described as alternative Christmas music designed to raise money for the pro-abortion organizations Rock for Choice, the Feminist Majority Foundation, and Planned Parenthood. The controversy continued into the 1997 Christmas season, when Sony was poised to [...]
Do school boards violate the rights of homosexuals when they prohibit books thought to be detrimental to children or in conflict with the beliefs of parents? B.C. Supreme Court proceedings on that very question were completed July 10, in a case brought forward by two gay teachers, a parent, and a student. The decision is now in the hands of Justice Mary [...]
It's said that great minds think alike; but at a conference at the University of Toronto June 5-6, it was clear the greatest minds also think of life. The conference was the annual gathering of University Faculty for Life, an association of pro-life academics from across North America. It was co-sponsored by Toronto's deVeber Institute, a leading pro-life research centre. Rabbi David [...]
On June 10, Prince Edward Island lost its status as the only Canadian province without "sexual orientation" (gay privileges) in its human rights legislation. After months of hearings, intense media speculation, and many impassioned letters to the editor, the end came so quietly that it took a call to the clerk of the provincial legislature to confirm that an act had actually [...]
As many people know, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) late last year rejected an application from Mother Angelica to bring her Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) to Canada through the sponsorship of cable companies. What particularly disturbed many was the fact that while EWTN was rejected, the CRTC at the same time gave its approval to Playboy TV as one of [...]
In the decade of the 1960’s, two important revolutions intertwined: the sexual and contraceptive revolutions. The sexual revolution promised a more healthy, less inhibited sexual lifestyle, and the contraceptive revolution made possible, at least theoretically, its immediate delivery. Together, this revolutionary tandem promised an attractive array of human improvements: less sexual frustration, better marriages, fewer divorces, better child spacing, fewer unwanted pregnancies, [...]
British Columbia education minister Paul Ramsey recently put on hold the ministry's plans to introduce a new curriculum to eliminate homophobia and heterosexism from B.C.'s schools. This was followed by the BCTF (BC Teacher's Federation) passing a number of resolutions designed to push ahead with just such a program. All of which signals, once again, that homosexuality has become one of the [...]
Pro-family group exposes a media bias CHARLOTTETOWN - In 20 years of writing letters to our local papers, I had found that a logically written argument would always be accorded respect, even if it wasn’t politically correct. Thus I was shocked this winter to find myself and REAL Woman/PEI under attack by the province’s largest newspaper. For four months The Guardian misrepresented [...]
Canada's homosexualist community is gloating over another milestone passed on "the road to equality for homosexuals," as one of their advocates put it, and bragging that the falling-domino insinuation of homosexualism into Canada's social fabric represents progress rather than decay. Many Canadian Christians beg to differ. On April 2, the Supreme Court ruled for the plaintiff in Vreind v. Alberta. Delwin Vriend [...]