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Written on 27 Jul, 1993 at 12:21 in
Frank Kennedy, Society & Culture | Author:
Frank Kennedy
Queen’s Park, Ont. Bob, take my advice (I know you never have) and give those American mobsters who want to run ‘Bob Rae’s Windsor Casino’ the boot. We’ll all be better off for it. I don’t like the suggested name for the casino anymore than you do but then again it may be the only monument that you’ll have.
I just finished reading Double Cross, a book about murdered mobster Sam “Mooney” Giancana, written by his brother Chuck Giancana and Chuck’s son. The authors ... (Continue reading)
Written on 25 Jun, 1993 at 12:10 in
Frank Kennedy, Politics, World Briefs | Author:
Frank Kennedy I feel sorry for all those poor media types who have recently, in numerous heart rending columns, eulogized the brave and courageous Anita Hill.
Here she is hobnobbing with the likes of Hilary Clinton and Gloria Steinem and being named Vanity Fair’s Woman of the Year. Why she’s even given credit for the election of President Clinton, the number of women elected to Congress and the 45 per cent increase in sexual harassment cases.
A new book, The Real Anita Hill: The ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Mar, 1993 at 13:17 in
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Frank Kennedy Now that a lot of dust has settled on the announcement by former Health Minister Frances Lankin that she would implement the recommendations of the Task Group on Abortion Services, we can take another look beneath the surface.
We’re quite to arrogance of politicians and their delicious contempt for the intelligence
of the ordinary voter. But it seems to me that the NDP has hit an all time high (or low depending on which way you view things) with the Task Group.
First ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Dec, 1992 at 8:01 in
Frank Kennedy, Pro-Life, Society & Culture | Author:
Frank Kennedy Let’s take one last look at why the widely touted “yes” camp lost so badly in the recent referendum. I voted “no” and I have found few pro-lifers who voted “yes”. (Joe Borowski of Winnipeg was the big exception. Sorry, Joe). Actually, I had three hundred and seventy-eight reasons for voting “no” – but I’m sure that you don’t want to hear all of them.
For me, it boiled down to the credibility of the principal spokes-people for the “yes” side. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Nov, 1992 at 12:14 in
Frank Kennedy, Pro-Life, Society & Culture | Author:
Frank Kennedy Sixty thousand letters that swamped her Ministry, complaining about the taking over Catholic hospitals in Ontario, appear to have caused second thoughts and sent the Hon. Frances Lankin scrambling for a new position.
Ms. Lankin, Ontario’s Minister of Health, stated in a closed meeting of hospital chief executive officers and members of district health councils on September 21 that her government “has no intention of expropriating your ownership, or undermining your role, as happened for example in New Brunswick.”
This appears to ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Oct, 1992 at 7:59 in
Abortion, Frank Kennedy, Pro-Life, Society & Culture | Author:
Frank Kennedy Toronto. Since August 19 Ontario’s health minister has received 59,000 pieces of mail complaining about the threatened elimination of individual Ontario hospital boards.
Frances Lankin, Minister of Health, wants to place all hospitals, including those privately owned, under elected boards. Catholics have swamped the office of the Minister with letters of protest.
Layne Verbeek, communications spokesman for the Minister of Health, used “swamped” and “incredible” to describe the situation. Normally the Ministry receives 25,000 letters per year. He said that this has ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Sep, 1992 at 15:11 in
Frank Kennedy, Religion, Society & Culture | Author:
Frank Kennedy Toronto – Rev. Ken Campbell, Evangelical Minister from Milton, Ontario, had a Justice of the Peace in Toronto lay charges against Merle Terlesky for disturbing a religious service. This charge was later changed to disturbing the peace. Terlesky, aged 27, was found guilty of the latter charge and was ordered to perform 75 hours of community service over a nine-month period. He was also ordered to stay away from any activity organized by Rev. Campbell, and report to his parole ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Sep, 1992 at 15:03 in
Frank Kennedy, Politics, Religion, Society & Culture | Author:
Frank Kennedy Ontario NDP member Peter Kormos, now a backbencher, has a reputation for being Premier Bob Rae’s greatest nemesis on many issues, the most notorious being no-fault auto insurance and Sunday shopping. Some believe he will successfully run for leader of the NDP when Rae steps aside to enter the federal scene.
In an informal interview with Kormos, the Interim’s Frank Kennedy tries to get some insight as to how the potential NDP leader would act on the issues which interest readers.
I ... (Continue reading)
Written on 24 Aug, 1992 at 9:24 in
Frank Kennedy, Pro-Life, Pro-life Groups, Society & Culture | Author:
Frank Kennedy The weather was great. The accommodations were great. The speakers were great. The security was great. The boat trip in the harbor was great. The people were great. And the cops – Toronto’s finest – were also great. They cleverly kept the pro-aborts, ‘Queer Nation,’ ‘Act Up’ (flaky homosexual groups) and the Rent-A-Mob types boxed up and so far away from us – you could hardly hear them swear. (The police got a standing ovation from the jammed pro-life banquet ... (Continue reading)
I was in a group of twenty-two people leaving Toronto Friday afternoon, April 24, to engage in a Rescue early the following morning.
About 150 of us were loaded into rented buses and off we went. Even the bus drivers (except the lead bus driver) didn’t know where we were going! There were two sites for the Rescue – one was Amherst, a small town near Buffalo, where we were told the judges were extra mean to Rescuers – and Buffalo ... (Continue reading)
Written on 22 Jun, 1992 at 16:32 in
Frank Kennedy, Religion, Society & Culture | Author:
Frank Kennedy At the annual general meeting of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association (OECTA), held in Toronto in March this year, an attempt was made to eliminate existing school chaplains (priests or sisters) or chaplaincy team leaders and members if they were not qualified OECTA “teachers’ and ‘branch affiliate members.’
Fortunately it lost: For – 308; Against – 200. Probably OECTA members figured it would be impossible to rewrite existing contracts.
Resolution passed
However the next resolution, basically the same only that it called ... (Continue reading)
Written on 22 Jun, 1992 at 16:29 in
Abortion, Frank Kennedy, Population, Pro-Life, Society & Culture | Author:
Frank Kennedy Due to an aging population, Canadians should brace themselves for old age pensions at 70 and no more baby bonuses, a published think tank study reports.
No longer will Canadians be able to retire at 65 and lounge around the beach in Florida. Nor will there be any government funds for their children’s children’s baby bonuses, the C.D. Howe Institute predicts in a study released in Ottawa early in November.
In Canada, two out of ten people will be 65 or older ... (Continue reading)
Written on 22 May, 1992 at 8:54 in
Abortion, Frank Kennedy, Pro-Life, Society & Culture | Author:
Frank Kennedy James Brooks is on the job.
Mr. Brooks, a long-time Campaign Life Coalition supporter spotted an ad in Time magazine ( November 11,1991).
It made his blood boil.
At first glance, Mr. Brooks thought it was an ad for Eaton’s department store. Actually it was an ad for Andrew Fezza, a manufacturer of high quality men’s clothing. With quality clients like Holt Renfrew and Eaton’s, Andrew Fezza markets expensive men’s pure woolen sweaters and jackets under the Assets label
Male customer
Superimposed on the ad ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Mar, 1992 at 11:36 in
Abortion, Activism, Events, Frank Kennedy, Pro-Life, Society & Culture | Author:
Frank Kennedy My assignment from Campaign Life Coalition President Jim Hughes was simple. Go to Port Charlotte, he said, and close down every abortion “clinic” down there.
And he gave me two weeks to do it.
The good news is that Port Charlotte is in Florida! I told Jim that I wouldn’t be very effective going alone.
He agreed.
So I brought along my wife, Ileen, daughter Tara, 21, and son, Rory, 19. In order to economize, we drove.
We left Toronto on December 21. We were ... (Continue reading)
Written on 17 Feb, 1992 at 9:09 in
Frank Kennedy, Population, Religion, Society & Culture | Author:
Frank Kennedy A radical review of the Canadian Constitution in the offing could be seized as a chance to destroy the publicly-supported Catholic school system in all of Canada.
This is what Tom Reilly, the Superintendent of Education of Dufferin-Peel RC Separate School Board, fears to some extent, as expressed in a letter dated September 19, 1991, to Donald Clune, the Chairman of the Metropolitan (Toronto) Separate School Board (MSSB).
Reilly notes that Quebec is now officially against denominational schools (it has both Protestant ... (Continue reading)
