"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 [...]
The Toronto Public Library has rejected The Interim’s bid to have the newspaper made available to the public through the periodical distribution service. According to an official with the Toronto Public Library, periodicals are ineligible for bulk distribution if they are deemed primarily of political, religious or philosophical advocacy. Other types of publications rejected for distribution include materials that would contravene bylaws [...]
My New Year’s resolution this year was to try to be more charitable towards my friends and adversaries. Summed up –it means for me to stop calling liars “liars.” After all to ‘lie’ is to break one of the Ten Commandments and that is a very serious charge. And there’s always the distinct possibly that I could be wrong. Or even worse [...]
To the feminists it is all about power. They will allow no exceptions to their principle of absolute power over life in the womb. In all their literature, in all their rhetoric and slogans we witness this. But they go further. When a pregnant woman immediately before an abortion is ambivalent about exercising such morbid power, the abortion-providing, radical feminists are there [...]
Question: Can you explain why so many North Americans express dissatisfaction and unhappiness with life, despite the fact that we have more of the world’s goods than any other country? Dr. Dobson: The human emotional apparatus is constructed so as to disregard that which is taken for granted. Good Health, delicious food, pleasant entertainment, peaceful circumstances and beautiful homes are of little [...]
Educational fads come and go, but some stay long enough to do substantial harm. The education profession was a significant casualty of the “Cultural revolution of the 1960’s and was vulnerable to untried educational experimentation. Seriously demoralized, it became ashamed of traditional cultural values and refused to transmit them. As was the case with stay-at-home mothers, whose essential teaching and nurturing functions [...]
If you’re a parent, I have a question for you. Would you ever think of letting your son or daughter spend the night alone on Toronto’s Yonge Street strip? If not, there’s another street-er-highway you should know about that’s just a dangerous, maybe more. It’s called the Information Highway and if you’re not already plugged into it you will be soon. The [...]
A few months ago Ontario’s schools took on full implication of the Ministry of Education’s Common Curriculum. A document packed with politically correct values to be imposed on children such as “no discrimination based on sexual orientation.” As if it wasn’t bad enough to inflict big-brother-type indoctrination in Ontario, the UN is now proposing “a global strategy to improve schooling systems.” The [...]
The founder and chairman of Human Life International believes a “massive religious revival” is needed to turn Western society away from the abortion-contraception mentality. Father Paul Marx, 76, made the comments September 27 during a three-day visit to Toronto. He came to the city to preach at two churches September 29 and to attend a tribute for pro-life Senator Stanley Haidasz, who [...]
Milton, Ont. – Renaissance Canada president Rev. Ken Campbell is heading up a campaign against the Halton Board of Education’s use of a book many parents consider pornographic. The book, Foxfire; Confessions of a Girl Gang, has been approved for use for Halton’s Grade 12 students. Rev. Campbell and supporters say the U.S. novel may corrupt youth morals. Campbell has distributed thousands [...]