In the past month, the Ontario Ministry of Health sent home a red and white flyer entitled “Help Wipe Out Red Measles” with every child in the province. Replete with warnings of “blindness,” “hearing problems,” “brain damage,” “death” and even suspension from school for the un-inoculated, the flyer and its accompanying multi-media blitz hope to convince the public that they have a [...]
“Life is a story in volumes three. The past the present and the yet to be. The past is gone and locked away. The present, we live it day by day. The future, the last of the volumes three, is hidden from sight. God holds the key.” I usually write either off the top of my head or from the depths of [...]
Quebec It has been said, “As the family goes, so goes the nation.” Never a truer word has been said about Quebec. The Vanier Institute of the Family recently published an article on Quebec’s plummeting marriage rates. Only about one third of Quebec men and slightly more women, about 37 percent, are likely to marry. This is an unprecedented drop from a [...]
—at his mother and me, at his sister, and at the world. Believe me, we have done nothing to provoke this anger, and I don’t understand what has caused it. DR. DOBSON: At least part of the answer to that question can be explained by the “in-between” stages of teenagers. They live in an era when they enjoy neither the privileges of [...]
I attended the wake at Queen’s Park recently for Bob Rae’s exit from the Ontario political scene. It was held in one of the big rooms where we normally hold our Christmas party, in order to accommodate the NDP party loyalists, loud lighters and heavy hand clappers. The Toronto Star editorial following Rae’s registration headline: “Rae served Canada and Ontario well” and [...]
India has become one of the first countries to pass legislation aimed at curbing the growing practice of sex-selection abortions. The country’s politicians are alarmed by the latest statistics which show that there are only 929 females per 1,000 males. In developed countries there are 1,060 females per 1,000 males. The law, which took effect on January 1, bans abortions if tests [...]
William Brennan, 1995, Loyola University Press, 3441 North Ashland Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60657 William Brennan’s book Dehumanizing the Vulnerable compares the language used against seven of the most victimized groups in the modern age. These are unborn, Native Americans, African Americans, European Jews, women, enemies of socialism in Soviet Russia, and those who rely on others physically and mentally. The similarity in [...]
Faithful readers will remember the horrendous problems that our family experienced when somebody stole our car about a year ago. Well this is like one of these Hollywood movies—just when you think the hero has escaped unscathed, he’s being attacked by the same villain again but much more violently! Our Honda’s electrical wiring failed miserably recently and left us riding around in [...]
Central Ontario pro-life supporters are concerned over the distribution of pro-abortion literature to some students at a college of Trent University in Peterborough. In September, students enrolling at Traill College received a brochure from the Peterborough chapter of the Canadian Abortion Rights Action League (CARAL). The brochure was included in an information kit given to Traill College students at the start of [...]
A few years ago, the fame show Family Feud posed the question: “What do twelve year olds wait for?” A phone call, their report cards, and Christmas were among the top answers. But one day last month, a twelve year old at the North York Crisis Pregnancy Centre was waiting for something else. You guessed it- the results of her pregnancy test. [...]
Although his speaking voice has been silenced by a debilitating illness, Mr. Justice Sam Filer’s actions and attitude says volumes about dignity, hope, and perseverance. Judge Filer, 60, was one of seven brave individuals to receive the 1995 Courage to Come Back award from the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry in Toronto. Presented November 30, the awards recognized people from throughout the province [...]
Front-running presidential candidate breaks from GOP pro-life plank Leading Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole has gone public with what many pro-life leaders had quietly suspected. On NBC’s Meet the Press, Dole said he does not support a major plank in the Republican platform- a constitutional amendment banning abortion. The Senate majority leader said he used to back a stronger law but no [...]
Which white ribbon campaign is which? Both aim to eliminate violence against women but one will not take a stand against pornography. Why? Lots of causes sport ribbons these days: red ribbons for fighting AIDS, pink ribbons for fighting breast cancer, and white ribbons for…for what? There are two white ribbon campaigns in Canada and people are confused. If you wear a [...]
Pro-life supporters must strive to overcome the “insidious voices” calling for the elimination of society’s weak and vulnerable members. Speaking December 28 at the Feast of the Holy Innocents Mass at St. Michael’s Cathedral in Toronto, Father Tom Lynch said there is a danger of the pro-life message becoming obscured in a society of conflicting voices. Archbishop Aloysius Ambrozic of Toronto was [...]
A few years ago, the fame show Family Feud posed the question: “What do twelve year olds wait for?” A phone call, their report cards, and Christmas were among the top answers. But one day last month, a twelve year old at the North York Crisis Pregnancy Centre was waiting for something else. You guessed it- the results of her pregnancy test. [...]