The ongoing Foxfiresaga reveals just how much disdain some board officials have for parent s feelings. Many parents feel it’s time to change this. With Christmas on the way, your teen might want to stock up on a little light holiday reading material. If so, you should check out a book which the Halton (Ontario) Board of Education sent home last Christmas [...]
Surprised kids get more than caramel corn and candy floss at ploughing match Ploughing Matches are long-running tradition in thousands of farming communities across Canada. Each year, area farmers and tradesmen combine forces and stage a week fair, giving them an opportunity to show off new techniques in plowing and a chance to sell their wares to the locals. It’s also a [...]
Second Pan-American Conference on Family and Education attracts diverse speakers After her recent experiences at the UN Fourth World Conference on women in Bejing, China, Kara Johnson is looking forward to working on her next project. “The only bright spot in the two weeks came from the network of pro-life, pro-family lobbyists from around the world,” says Johnson, who lobbied on behalf [...]
As Christmas approaches many people are busy with activities such as mailing out Christmas cards and attending parties. Meanwhile my won thoughts have been drawn to something central to our Christmas celebration – the shopping mall. The modern shopping mall has real significance for our efforts at getting our the pro-life message. The mall is a tightly –controlled environment. Everything there exists [...]
School is back in swing and I’m sure many a parent is concern over the dismal influence of the school system on their children’s moral development. I thought I might share with you some thoughts I have had regarding the debate between public and private school education, more specifically Christian education. In this day and age, then the public school system is [...]
Does the Christian Coalition have a place in Canada? That was the question 25 Canadians were asking themselves when they met during the Christian Coalition’s “Road to Victory” convention. Among those present were Stephen Jalsevac of Campaign Life Coalition, Jim Garrow of the National Parents Coalition, Alex Parachin of the Christian Broadcasting Associates of Canada and John Bloedow, editor of the Ottawa [...]
Threats to family life can come in many different forms. Often, the more subtle and hidden threats are among the most powerful. A case in point is the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ----or at least our current devotion to it. GDP is the universal measuring rod of the strength and well-being of a country’s economy. It is the total of all goods [...]
“We have been working on it for a long time. It is a small gain!” said Mary Anne Glendon, Head of the Holy See delegation to the recent Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. Homeward bound at Tokyo airport, I had the opportunity to thank her for the work done by both the Guatemalan and Vatican delegations to insert the words [...]
It is now fifty-four years since I first left Ireland for Africa. I have returned many times for visits to my family and native land have always enjoyed them. I came back just a few days ago from a vacation in Ireland and for the first time I have to hesitate when people in Canada ask me, “Did you enjoy your holiday [...]
Over 30 million people have access to the Internet and the number is increasing by 15 per cent each month. Tony Gosgnach explains how to reach these people at very little cost. As the so-called information super highway continues to make greater inroads into all facets of our lives, it is becoming more and more crucial that pro-life and pro-family views don’t [...]
I must be getting old. It seems like only yesterday that I wrote in The Interim about the UN women’s conference in Nairobi, and yet it was ten years ago. However, it has taken me this many years (another sign of age?) to begin to clarify a couple of statements I heard then for the first time, and have heard constantly since [...]
Kenya Dr. Margaret Ogola is a pediatrician and the director of a hospice for HIV and AIDS orphans. She is also Vice-President of Family Life Counselling (Kenya). Her book, The River And The Source, recently won the Africa region Commonwealth Award for Literature. It deals with the story of four generations of African women. This was her address to the delegates at [...]
Now that the Fourth UN Conference on Women has finished, and attention flicks away from the radical feminists and their actions in Beijing, it is tempting to file away the clippings and forget about the radicals’ agenda. Tempting, indeed, but experience shows that the radicals do not go home and move on to other things, they use each international forum to build [...]
Forget the Enjoli Woman. The delegates to the UN’s Fourth World Conference on Women taking place in Beijing, China aren’t interested in proving that they “can bring home the bacon and fry it up in a pan.” According the Grete Berget, who heads the Norwegian delegation, the conferees are interested instead in finding effective ways to “get men to share working at [...]
Queen’s Park Ont. Charlton Heston was in town recently, promoting his autobiography In the Arena. Charlton and I, you may not be aware, go back a long way and I was quite disturbed to find that Charlton hadn’t even let me know that he was coming. Charlton is openly pro-life. He is one of the rare super-celebrities to be in our camp. [...]