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September 2001
Across CanadaN.S. profits from gamingCloning poll S and M youth workshop BC pro-lifer arrested N.S. profits from gamingHALIFAX - Nova Scotia Gaming Corporation president Marie Mullally said gambling is a "part of life" that will not go away, following the release of the commission's 2000-01 annual report in late August. The report said state-run gaming has been profitable for the coffers of the Nova Scotia government, generating nearly $174 million in additional revenue in the past year. Video lottery terminals netted $104.8 million, lottery ticket sales totalled $53.8 million and casinos generated the rest. Mullally told the Halifax Daily News that despite some misuse, there is no going back to an age without legal, state-run gambing. "Banning gaming will not make it disappear. It will just make gaming disappear from sight." The govenment contributes $1.7 million to help problem gamblers, which represents about one per cent of its total gaming revenue. A Statistics Canada report released in June said the direct profits of provincial and territorial governments from legal gambling was about $5 billion in 1999.Cloning pollMONTREAL - According to a Leger Marketing poll, 85 per cent of Canadians oppose human reproductive cloning, although 75 per cent thought it would become a reality within 20 years. McGill University ethicist Margaret Sommerville, said, "The public's opposition is actually expressing a deep, moral intuition that there's something fundamentally and inherently wrong in (cloning)." On the question of therapeutic cloning, there was mild support, with 55 per cent supporting it and 40 per cent opposed.S and M youth workshopBARRIE, Ont. - Organizers of a sado-masochistic workshop for Barrie youth last February say they will offer the program again, possibly next year. The closed door session, open to children as young as 14, promoted "safer" sado-masochistic sex. Organizers included the AIDS Committee of Simcoe County, the Children's Aid Society and the United Way Young Adult Initiative. Workshop facilitator Duncan MacLachlan, a former "Mr. Leatherman Toronto" and educator with the AIDS Committee of Toronto's Safer SM Project, told the homosexualist newspaper Xtra! that attendees were not only interested, but were practicing, S and M."BC pro-lifer arrestedVANCOUVER - On August 21, 41-year-old Kevin Pielak was arrested at Vancouver's Everywoman's Abortion Clinic. He allegedly engaged in a conversation with someone entering the abortuary. He is planning on fighting the charge as a violation of his free speech rights. Noting the double standard of so-called civil rights activists, Campaign Life Coalition B.C. president John Hof asked, "Where are the free-speech advocates when the cuffs are placed on individuals praying in front of the abortion clinic?" Pielak is scheduled to appear in court Sept. 30. |
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