By: Frank Kennedy Laying off 387 nurses at the Toronto General Hospital! Heaven’s to Betsy – what were those nurses doing!? Weren’t they doing something? I mean ‘something.’ They couldn’t of all been discussing last night’s horrible dates. I know they all enjoy a bit of chin-wagging at their stations- but surely some of the 387 nurses turned up occasionally to check [...]
Interim Staff Liberal MP Albina Guarnieri is not giving up in her fight to introduce legislation she hopes will eliminate “volume discount” sentencing. Guarnieri (Mississauga East) first presented private member’s bill C-321 (formerly C-274) in May. It calls for Criminal Code changes which would end the practice of concurrent sentencing for serial rapists and multiple murderers. Concurrent sentencing allows these criminals to [...]
Pro-life groups have joined forces with the Catholic Church to fight a controversial sterilization program introduced by Peru’s Ministry of Health. The program would offer sterilization for people living in poverty and would provide economic benefits for those volunteering for the surgery. As reported by the Eternal World Television Network (EWTN), the program was immediately attacked by the head of the Peruvian [...]
Question: I am 13 years old, and I feel miserable about myself. Is there anything I can do? Dr. Dobson: First, you need to understand that you are not alone. When you go to school tomorrow, quietly watch the students who are coming and going. I assure you, many of them have the same concerns that trouble you. They reveal these doubts [...]
Mother Teresa sent a special message to the Habitat II delegates, who met in Istanbul to discuss housing and sustainable development. Dear Friends, Jesus came to bring us peace of heart, which comes from loving, doing good to others. Abortion and partial-birth abortion are the killers of peace in the world, the greatest destroyers of peace, for if a mother can destroy [...]
A survey of Boston-area cancer patients and physicians has indicated that depression rather than physical pain is the motivating factor leading patients to opt for assisted suicide. The survey was conducted by Dr. Ezekial Emanuel of the Dana- Farber Cancer Institute and was as published in the July issue of The Lancet, a British medical journal. It overturns the main argument of [...]
The director of a Nairobi-based AIDS hospice fears promiscuous “Hollywood” values are effecting African young people to the detriment of family life. Dr. Margaret Ogola is medical director of the Cottolengo Hospice, a facility providing care and support to orphans born of HIV- positive mothers. Ogola was in Toronto in May to attend the Second Pan-American Conference on Family and Education, where [...]
The Interim “The average child throughout the Americas by the age of six has spent more time watching his father in a lifetime than he spends at his job.” According to Medved, Americans watch 26 hours of television a week and Canadians, 23 hours. Medved is the chief film critic for the New York Post and co-host of the PBS program, Sneak [...]
The family must replace the mass media, particularly television, in imparting important social values, says a Canadian pro-life journalist. Peter Stockland, the former editor of The Calgary Sun, made the comments May 29 during the Second Pan-American Conference on Family and Education. Stockland led a workshop on the social agenda and family values. “We can’t leave it to television to deliver the [...]
Interim staff Individual families can play a major role in counteracting increasingly disruptive influences in society, say participants of the Second Pan-American Conference on Family and Education. The conference, held May 26-30 in Toronto, attracted nearly 1,200 delegates from Canada, the United States, Mexico and several other countries throughout the world. The theme of the conference- Building a Civilization of Love- was [...]
John-Henry Westen The Interim With the sexual orientation legislation having passed in the Senate, it is now law. Of great concern during the debates in the House of Senate on the issue, was the absolute denial of any attempt to safeguard the rights of religious communities to defend their moral teaching on homosexuality. In the words of Senator Anne Cools, “Any critical [...]
Conference a major boost for family Fr. Ted Collection Along with about a thousand other people I attended the Second Pan-American Conference on Family Education. It was held at the Regal Constellation Hotel, Toronto. The title for this Conference was: “Building the Civilization of Love.” I thought that the entire conference was an outstanding success and great credit is due to Paul [...]
Interim special The First Annual Guelph Conference on Family and Morality was the response of local pro-life family groups who believe the chastity message for young people has been lost in the rush to embrace secular values and contraception. Held July 17-18, the event competed head-on with the 18th annual Guelph Conference and Training Institute on Sexuality. The latter event embraces “sex [...]
Tony Gosgnach The Interim Global conspiracy theories received an added boost recently when a meeting of the secretive Bilderberger group was held in King City, Ontario. The attendance list of 120 at the June 1-2 meeting read like a who’s who of current and former powerbrokers and shakers in world affairs—Henry Kissinger was there, as were US defense secretary William Perry, use [...]
The Interim Health minister David Dingwall announced June 5 that Canada is going to ban the sale of human sperm. The proposed bill, which will be tabled at the end of June, reads: “N person shall sell, purchase, barter or exchange sperm or offer to sell, purchase, barter or exchange sperm.” The measure will be a key part of the long awaited [...]