Marriage and Family
Written on 19 Dec, 2011 at 7:16 in
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Paulina Kosalka There have been several inspirational cases of women who have chosen to put their children’s lives ahead of their own by continuing with their pregnancy.
The Toronto Star recently reported Thunder Bay, Ont., resident Sadie Stout, who had a rare tumour in her heart from a condition known as cardiac myxoma. The risk was that the tumour could break off at any moment, travel through her bloodstream, and get stuck in her brain, causing a stroke. Stout was given three choices ... (Continue reading)
Written on 19 Dec, 2011 at 6:48 in
Announcements, Features, Marriage and Family | Author:
Paul Tuns Population and poverty are not inextricably linked
According to demographers Joyce Burnette and Joel Mokyr, as humanity’s numbers have grown, our average standard of living has grown as well. These scientists wrote a paper entitled “The Standard of Living Through the Ages,” found in the book The State of Humanity. In it, they point out that every single statistic that we have on this subject points to one ... (Continue reading)
Written on 12 Dec, 2011 at 12:17 in
Columnist, Donald DeMarco, Marriage and Family | Author:
Commentary Donald DeMarco “All who would win joy, must share it;
happiness was born a twin.”
-- George Gordon Lord Byron
Birth, as it is often said, is a miracle. A baby is born, a living, breathing, honest-to-goodness baby that you can hold in your arms. Just prior to delivery, it was something parents were expecting, but whose reality was still concealed. It was something that was swelling under its mother’s heart. But it was not ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Oct, 2011 at 8:03 in
Marriage and Family, Society & Culture | Author:
Interim Staff In 2010, the Ontario Ministry of Education foisted an equity and inclusivity education policy (EIE) which seeks to eliminate racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry from schools, including so-called homophobia. Religious leaders are concerned that implementation of EIE policies could be a Trojan horse by which gay activists normalize the homosexual lifestyle in the eyes of students, including through Gay-Straight Alliances where homosexual students could feel welcome in coming out with their sexuality.
Campaign Life Catholics has worked with numerous ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Sep, 2011 at 11:31 in
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Alan and Theresa Yoshioka Ontario’s Equity and Inclusive Education Strategy (EIE) is meant to shape the entire educational system. Last month we showed how EIE disregards children’s social and emotional needs. This month’s critique continues with the some of the strategy’s implications for moral and spiritual development.
Jesus told us how carefully we are to guard the purity of growing children. “He said to His disciples, ‘Temptations to sin are sure to come; but woe to him by whom they come! It would be better ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Sep, 2011 at 9:58 in
Marriage and Family, Religion | Author:
Editor’s Note: This press release was sent by the Lutheran Church-Canada July 18 following the (liberal) Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada meeting which authorized pastors to conduct same-sex ‘marriages.”
Responding to a vote by delegates at the convention of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) meeting in Saskatoon, July 15 and 16, which authorized its pastors to conduct same-gender marriages and finds sexual orientation no longer an issue for ordaining pastors, the leaders of Lutheran Church-Canada (LCC) issued a statement ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Jun, 2011 at 8:22 in
Announcements, Features, Marriage and Family, Society & Culture | Author:
Pauline Kosalka Recent attacks on the family often become attacks on fatherhood. For instance, figures from Hollywood have embraced alternative family structures, questioning or mocking the importance of a father figure. Actress Jennifer Aniston in August 2010 said that fathers are unnecessary, especially since now there is no need “to fiddle with a man to have that child.” Another example is the positive portrayal of a lesbian couple raising a family in the movie “The Kids are Alright.” There are too many ... (Continue reading)
Written on 31 Mar, 2011 at 6:58 in
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Pauline Kosalka For over two months, the British Columbia Supreme Court has heard testimony in its case examining whether Canada’s ban on polygamy is constitutional. The issue was referred to the court after a judge in 2009 stayed charges against two Bountiful religious leaders from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) – James Oler and Winston Blackmore - accused of polygamy. The trial began with an opening statement by Craig Jones, a lawyer for the Ministry of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Feb, 2011 at 18:15 in
Bioethics, Marriage and Family | Author:
Paul Tuns
By as split 4-4-1 advisory decision, the Supreme Court of Canada upheld a 2008 Quebec Court of Appeal decision that found some of the federal Assisted Human Reproduction Act intruded on province’s jurisdiction over health. Pro-life and faith groups condemned the decision because it gave provinces control of the creation, destruction and manipulation of human embryos.
The Supreme Court upheld in part the Quebec government’s constitutional challenge against the 2004 Assisted Human Reproduction Act (AHRA), ruling that key sections intrude on ... (Continue reading)
Written on 23 Feb, 2011 at 7:33 in
Announcements, Features, Marriage and Family | Author:
Pauline Kosalka
Life Canada, an organization seeking to educate Canadians about the value of life, launched a national awareness campaign in November, to coincide with the Canada’s official National Adoption Awareness Month. Life Canada’s “Adoption in Canada” campaign aims to assure 18 to 29-year-old women facing unplanned pregnancies that adoption is a “heroic” choice. According to the campaign’s website, adoptionincanada.ca, “many will consider abortion as the way out of their difficulties, but only a ... (Continue reading)
Written on 21 Jan, 2011 at 11:52 in
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When the Ontario Court of Appeals ruled that the immemorial definition of marriage as the union between one man and one woman violated the equity provisions of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, social conservatives opposed the short-sighted and egregious activism of the court on many grounds. We argued that, in addition to misunderstanding (and far exceeding) the proper bounds of the state, the court made the future prohibition of polygamy ... (Continue reading)
Written on 21 Dec, 2010 at 9:14 in
Marriage and Family | Author:
Pauline Kosalka
A report from the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada speculates on why boys and men in the modern world are lagging behind girls. Using a thesis put forth by scholars such as George Gilder, Margaret Mead, David Popenoe, and David Blankenhorn, the report, “The Status of Men” written by Andrea Mrozek, manager of research and communication at the IMFC, considers “men and boys as the forgotten casualty in gender warfare” and ... (Continue reading)
Written on 28 Nov, 2010 at 13:20 in
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Pauline Kosalka Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty is overselling the benefits and underscoring the costs of universal full-day kindergarten, says the program’s critics.
Full-day kindergarten has already been implemented in 600 sites across Ontario. It will replace the previous half day of supervision and lessons with a full day in school for 4 and 5 year olds under the care of a teacher and an early childhood educator. Some schools will also provide before and after-school daycare for an additional fee.
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty ... (Continue reading)
Written on 18 Aug, 2010 at 5:33 in
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Joseph Jalsavec Q&A with Craig Carter
Editor’s note: Joseph Jalsevac, a summer intern at The Interim, spoke to Dr. Craig Carter, an ordained minister in the Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches of Canada and a professor of Religious Studies at Tyndale University College in Toronto, about contraception. Carter regularly writes and lectures on Christian sexual ethics in the modern world.
The Interim: Where does your own Church stand on contraception?
Craig ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 Jul, 2010 at 14:06 in
Marriage and Family | Author:
Paul Tuns On June 3-5, the Faith and Freedom Alliance Conference was held in Toronto, during which they educated the public about the threats to religious liberty and trained lawyers to fight back to protect certain freedoms from assault in the public square.
J. Scott Kennedy, chair of the Alliance, opened the conference reminding participants that the freedoms of religion, conscience, and expression “are among the most fundamental freedoms in a democratic society,” although ... (Continue reading)
