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 [...]
Who runs Canada? You might think that “the people” do, in light of the fact that we’re supposedly living in a democracy. But some might argue that politicians do, or at least a small cadre of inner cabinet ministers and the prime minister. Others might posit for special-interest groups, under the thinking that “the squeaky wheel gets the grease.” Still others might [...]
Recovery on this island nation depends on use of local resources Haiti is an enigma. Once the richest colony in the Caribbean, Haiti today is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere. Unemployment runs at 70 per cent. Haiti is the world’s first black republic, yet it still tolerates a form of child slavery. Impoverished parents place their children in the homes [...]
Promise Keepers Canada is looking forward to a better year after what its national co-ordinator describes as having been a financially “rough” 1997 for the national ministry to men. “This is going to be a great year for us. We have the faith to believe that,” says Ken McGeorge. “Nineteen ninety-seven was a challenging year for Promise Keepers throughout North America.” Promise [...]
In the 1980s, we were introduced to the phrase “safe sex.” The phrase was later amended to “safer sex” since no condom is 100 per cent effective. While the phrase changed, the message to children did not: “Engage in sexual relations if you feel you are ready. And if you feel you are ready, be responsible and use protection - rely on [...]
In last month’s Interim, we reported on concerns about the Multi-Lateral Agreement on Investment, which many in the pro-life community fear is a step towards the emergence of one-world government and a reduction in national sovereignty. Part two of this series expands on those concerns. An assortment of groups around the world is taking up the fight against the Multi-Lateral Agreement on [...]
Today, the young, and the not so young, take rock and roll music very seriously. For many devotees, rock has a meaning beyond its obvious appeal to sexual anarchy and the abandonment of individual responsibility. It has a deeper significance which involves feelings of Paradise Lost and the need to re-establish a sense of spiritual oneness, the lack of boundaries, and the [...]