Culture & Society Articles

Media’s corporate irresponsibility

March 5, 2004|Comments Off on Media’s corporate irresponsibility

Media affairs dominate this edition of Corporate Watch. In the wake of the Janet Jackson breast-baring episode during the Super [...]

Modernity: a consistent culture of death

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There can be seen today, in late modern society, a furtive obsession with sex in all its forms and manifestations. [...]

Supreme Court imposes spanking limits

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By Peter Stock The Interim Spanking is okay ... sometimes. So says the Supreme Court of Canada. In a 6-3 [...]

Canada’s plan for children

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By Sam Singson The Interim Following the Special Session on Children held at UN headquarters in May 2002, Canada, along [...]

The moral deficit

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For all the talk about the democracy deficit, there is a much greater deficit in the political arena: a morality [...]

Young people entrapped

January 5, 2004|Comments Off on Young people entrapped

As we emerge from the Christmas season, sacred to many because it marks the birth of the Son of God [...]

Condoms without borders

January 5, 2004|Comments Off on Condoms without borders

Interim StaffMorten Rostrup, president of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), has said the Vatican was responsible for spreading AIDS [...]

Corporate Watch Update

January 5, 2004|Comments Off on Corporate Watch Update

By Tony Gosgnach The InterimAs we take a look at the latest goings on among corporations and organizations that put [...]

Teen-sex scandal hits P.E.I. high school

December 31, 2003|Comments Off on Teen-sex scandal hits P.E.I. high school

Youth's Major League Baseball career hangs in the balance A trial involving sexual activity between high school athletes and pre-teen [...]

Nova Scotia to allow Sunday shopping

December 31, 2003|Comments Off on Nova Scotia to allow Sunday shopping

The government of Nova Scotia has changed its laws to allow Sunday shopping, which has long been a contentious issue [...]

Consecration worsens Anglican divisions

December 31, 2003|Comments Off on Consecration worsens Anglican divisions

His male partner and two daughters from a failed marriage offered Gene Robinson his golden mitre before 3,000 people in [...]

Massachusetts court orders gay ‘marriage’

December 31, 2003|Comments Off on Massachusetts court orders gay ‘marriage’

On Nov. 19, in a 4-3 split decision, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the highest state court, has ruled that [...]

A musical ‘hell on earth’

December 1, 2003|Comments Off on A musical ‘hell on earth’

Almost since the first day the word "musician" became a job description, and certainly since the early days of mass [...]