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August 2001
ACROSS CANADA
Premiers agree to registry of sex offenders
B.C. affirms parental role in schools
Dobson on state of Canadian families
Abortionist studies aromatherapy use
Pro-abortionist to lead Toronto United Way
Homosexual numbers exaggerated
N.B. opposed to abortuary funding
Premiers agree to registry of sex offenders
VICTORIA, B.C. - Canada's premiers agreed on August 3 to the creation of a national child-sex offender registry. Only Alberta, British Colombia and Ontario have or are considering establishing a database on sex offenders. Recently elected B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell said provinces should be able to share information when pedophiles move. The premiers criticized the national registry currently in place, which utilizes the Canadian Police Information Computer as outdated. Chuck Cadman, justice critic for the Canadian Alliance, said he hopes the premiers' initiative will spur the federal government to improve the existing registry. The need for an effective registry was illustrated earlier that week when a Moncton pedophile moved to Toronto. The media and not the police alerted the public that the man, whom prison officials said was a "low risk to re-offend," had moved to the city. The premiers also committed to making it harder for deadbeat parents to avoid paying child support by moving to different provinces and to keep genetic discoveries in the public domain, not the private property of pharmaceutical companies.
B.C. affirms parental role in schools
VICTORIA, B.C. - B.C. Education Minister Christy Clark announced the province would enshrine the right of parents to volunteer in schools. While this will have the benefit of increasing parental involvement in schools, as parents will no longer be intimidated by teachers to stay away, the plan affirms that parents, not educators, are still primarily responsible for their children. As the Vancouver Sun reported, several years ago during contract talks with the Surrey schools, the Canadian Union of Public Employees "proposed that any parental involvement in schools should be approved by the union." CUPE's B.C. president Barry O'Neill grudgingly admits that parents "have a right" to participate in the education of their children. While the union is right to worry that a cash-strapped education system might use volunteers to cut costs and displace unionized workers, the condescending attitude is repugnant: parents don't have "a" right, but the final say, about their children's education.
Dobson on state of Canadian families
 VANCOUVER B.C. - Dr. James Dobson, writing in Focus on the Family Canada's July 2001 monthly letter to supporters, comments on the U.S. and Canadian census. He says the U.S. census illustrates "the institution of the family has continued its downward spiral," because of widespread cohabitation and out-of-wedlock births. He said, "I hope and pray" the Canada census does not paint the same kind of picture here, but worries that the 1996 data doesn't portend positive signs. From 1981-1996, the number of single-parent families grew 60 per cent and common-law families grew 159 per cent, while the number of legally married couples increased just 10 per cent. A third of marriages end in divorce and more people will have sex for the first time in a cohabitational relationship than marriage. Furthermore, one in five Canadian children will have to deal with their parents' separation before they reach their sixth birthday. Dobson concludes, "For too many Canadians, marriage has become only an option and often a temporary one."
Abortionist studies aromatherapy use
VANCOUVER, B.C. - Vancouver abortionist Ellen Wiebe has been experimenting with aromatherapy to reduce anxiety in women undergoing abortions. Writing in the medical journal Effective Clinical Practice (July-August) Wiebe says she had patients sniff either essential oils or hair conditioner for 10 minutes, but that the aromatherapy had little calming effect on women about to have abortions.
Pro-abortionist to lead United Way
TORONTO - Ontario NDP MPP Frances Lankin announced in June she will resign from politics and become the president of the United Way of Greater Toronto, effective September 2001. Lankin has been a vocal abortion proponent for years. She attacked St. Michael's Hospital for its decision to remove abortion services from a hospital with which it had merged. Lankin complained, "That's 1,000 to 1,500 abortion procedures per year that will no longer available to this community." She was also incensed that the Toronto Catholic school board was raising funds for a Toronto crisis pregnancy centre at Halloween. She insisted that the provincial health minister condemn the school board's support of Aid to Women and that the refusal to do so indicated an unwillingness "to stand up for (a woman's) right of access to legal medical services - all of them, including the right of access to abortion 'services.'"
Homosexual numbers exaggerated
TORONTO - A Leger Marketing poll released in July exposes the lie of radical homosexual activists who inflate the number of homosexuals to advance their agenda. For years, based on the faulty "research" of the likes of Alfred Kinsey, homosexuals and the media has claimed that 10 per cent of the population is homosexual. Yet, the Leger found that only 2.6 per cent of Canadians have ever engaged in homosexual sex acts and only 4.6 per cent have ever been attracted to someone of the same sex. The poll found 75 per cent of respondents support granting homosexual couples the same rights as heterosexual couples, but when pressed on specific rights such as marriage and adoption, the numbers dropped dramatically to 65 and 53 per cent, respectively.
N.B. opposed to abortuary funding
SAINT JOHNS, N.B. - According to the July 18 New Brunswick Telegraph Journal, Federal Health Minister Allan Rock has confirmed that his ministry has had ongoing discussions with the province over taxpayer-funding of abortions in private abortuaries. Provincial Health and Wellness Minister Dennis Furlong maintains his position against such funding, saying the province already funds abortions committed in hospitals. Earlier this year, pro-life MP Elsie Wayne (PC-Saint John) praised the New Brunswick government at the March for Life. "You know, the province of New Brunswick still will not pay Morgentaler, and I give Bernard Lord full marks for that. (He) does not want to have Morgentaler there killing babies every day."
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