Interim special Citizens of Langley and surrounding areas gathered at the Langley Memorial Hospital recently to draw attention to the Clark government’s appointment of Vancouver doctor Tom Ward as public administrator. This follows Premier Glen Clark’s dissolution of the Langley Memorial Hospital Society and the Hospital Board by Order in Council March 26. As public administrator, Ward holds sweeping authority, with the [...]
From its humble beginnings in a small Brooklyn, N.Y. clinic before First World War, the Planned Parenthood organization has grown quickly into an international behemoth with tentacles reaching into all corners of the world. With the active support of people in high places, the organization today serves as the world’s leader in a number of areas troubling to persons of faith, morality, [...]
Now that suicide is no longer a criminal offence, what arguments, apart from religion, are there against making it a ‘rational choice,’ or a ‘right’? M.M. Chatham, Ont. Where suicide has been decriminalized, it was not because it was approved but rather because it is now recognized that victims of failed suicide need help, not punishment. Law has long recognized that the [...]
The acceptance of abortion is destroying both the legitimacy of the state and the integrity of the medical profession, says a pro-life media personality, former associate professor of philosophy and one-time U.S. presidential candidate. “Doctors perform medical miracles on pre-born babies..(while) in the very next room, the same doctor or his colleague may be killing perfectly healthy babies,” says William A. Marra. [...]
Interim special Critics of the New World Order movement are concerned over a move by U.S. President Hill Clinton that would put command of American military forces in the hands of the United Nations. According to the April 1997 edition of the Canadian Intelligence Service report and other publications, President Clinton in 1994, quietly signed Presidential Decision Directive 25, which says that [...]
OTTAWA – REAL Women of Canada, in a recent letter to Justice Minister Allan Rock, has urged that the age of consent for sexual activity by young persons with adults be raised from 14 years to 18 years of age. The concerns over this age of consent have been exacerbated in recent weeks by the revelations of repeated acts of sexual misconduct [...]
QUESTION: Do you ever favor removing a child from one school to transfer him to another? DR. DOBSON: Yes, there are times when a change of schools – or even a change of teachers within a school – can be in the child’s best interest. Educators are reluctant to approve these transfers, for obvious reasons, although the possibility should be considered when [...]
We live in a society with soft pretensions to self-knowledge, decency, democracy and the respect for human rights. The illusion is becoming more difficult to sustain. The tangle of pathology revealed by increasing rates of theft, violence, addiction, demoralization, familial breakdown, and educational failure, once confined to the fringe, has expanded to most parts of society. Political, social and economic remedies put [...]
Given the oceans of ink and hours of air time expended by Canada's print and electronic media over the past decade or so on the topic of violent abuse and harassment of women in our society, one might reasonably expect that an incident in which a female Member of Parliament was publicly swarmed, pushed and shoved, as well as subjected to hostile [...]
"The big lie of pornography is, 'There are no victims.' I am a victim of pornography" claims Tonya Flynt-Vega, the daughter of Larry Flynt, owner and publisher of the hard core porn magazine, Hustler. Flynt-Vega says the film, The People vs. Larry Flynt, paints her father as a free press champion. "He's not a hero. He's a pornographer, a pimp and a [...]
Premier Mike Harris appears to be planning to erase gently the Ontario Catholic school system for the backboard. Mike is dangling a fairer share of commercial taxes – spreading the largesse evenly all over Ontario – hypnotically a T-bone steak in front of a meat lover. Ed McMahon, the able chairman of the Metro Separate School Board is also concerned about what's [...]
Campaign Life Coalition official shave reiterated the need for social policies which emphasize childbirth and strengthen the family unit as a prelude to safeguarding the rights of the unborn in Canada. The call comes in light of a study published in the U.S. Family Planning Perspectives showing a rising abortion rate in Canada. The study, using data collected by Statistics Canada, indicates [...]
Review by Sue Careless A Community Affair: Solving the problem of teen pregnancy and disease by Marilyn Bergeron. Wireless Publishing 135 pages, softcover Available for $13 Canadian, 10 U.S. plus $3.00 shipping and handling from CAC, 7 Albert St. Cornwall, ON K6H 4E7, l996 Marilyn Bergeron is an empowerer. She enables young people to master the art of sexual self-control. For the [...]
Planned Parenthood’s international efforts to promote birth-control and the abortion/contraception mentality have not gone unchallenged by the pro-life community. In 1992, a group of North American pro-life authorities came together to form Life Decisions International (LDI), an Amherst, New York-based organization dedicated to challenging Planned Parenthood’s agenda worldwide. Led by president Douglas Scott and executive director Patricia Bainbridge, LDI offers parents concrete [...]
Writers reflect on Planned Parenthood impact Interim Special A number of voices over the years have described the International Planned Parenthood Federation in terms not likely to be found in the organization’s self-serving literature. Many of these sources cite Planned Parenthood’s participation in attempts to undermine the traditional family as a means of promoting its new vision. In her 1988 work, The [...]